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