| Having a multifunctional color printer | | | | degree. The real "pain" was in the need |
| around the office certainly helps to | | | | to swap ink colors in and out depending |
| pick up the pace when projects are due. | | | | upon need. |
| The issue becomes, however, how much | | | | The next step up but along the same |
| needs to be spent to get the quality and | | | | lines, at $170.00, is the HP Office jet |
| efficiency required without having a | | | | 7410. A workhorse of a printer by most |
| hunk of plastic sitting in the office | | | | accounts it provides hard copy with |
| when there are fewer smaller projects in | | | | little effort. It does not shoot out the |
| the pipe line. | | | | copy with remarkable speed but it does |
| Are there substitutes? | | | | produce at a solid rate. Swapping out |
| Striking the even balance of having a | | | | color and black ink continues to be an |
| multifunctional color printer around and | | | | issue but for the given application this |
| sending out the bigger jobs is an | | | | is less of an issue. |
| age-old issue. With Hewlett Packard | | | | Upper end |
| (HP), however, there may be some | | | | The hp multifunctional color printer |
| comparison shopping to be done so that | | | | designed to meet a vast majority of |
| the office supplies and capital | | | | office needs is the HP Jet Pro L7680. |
| expenditures budgets do not get too | | | | This unit offers all the bells and |
| depleted. | | | | whistles that an office could want and |
| Depending upon the layout of a | | | | was named Editors Choice by several |
| particular office there may not need to | | | | computer magazines. Media card slots, HP |
| be a need for more than one | | | | OEM ink cartridge, filing options and 16 |
| multifunctional color printer. In some | | | | pages per minute page speed. For a unit |
| instances having a few lesser quality | | | | that doubles the cost of the other |
| multifunctional printers available in a | | | | smaller machines, at $358.00, this unit |
| cube situation, with a lead unit as a | | | | does the trick. Scanner and fax finish |
| centerpiece for larger projects, may be | | | | off the unit so that a complete system |
| an option. | | | | is included. |
| Cube top | | | | If the top end is desired the Laser Jet |
| In this instance, hp multifunctional | | | | 3390 is available at $437.95. This unit |
| color printers can range from $70.00 on | | | | includes the other options mentioned |
| up. Reviews suggest that the functions, | | | | with solid performance characteristics. |
| on the lower cost machines, may require | | | | As a laser may suggest, paper throughput |
| a bit more attention from the user but | | | | is high at 29 pages per minute. |
| that they work well in situations that | | | | Middle end |
| may just require a visual hard copy for | | | | As is often the case a purchaser wants |
| inspection. The HP Office Jet 4315V may | | | | something in the middle. In this case, |
| work in this situation. The unit was | | | | the HP Photo Smart 2575 XI may be the |
| perceived to be slow (in the users' | | | | unit of choice. The unit is still fast |
| perception) and the scans could have | | | | and has all the features but at a |
| been better. | | | | varying level of sophistication. |
| Each, however, was acceptable to a | | | | |