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