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HP 4350DTN Laserjet Printer
Hewlett Packard
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POWERFUL PERFORMANCE- Complete print jobs more quickly and boost large workgroup productivity.
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Customer Reviews
for HP 4350DTN Laserjet Printer --- Hewlett Packard
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Great little printer
This is a very good affordable photo printer. Easy to setup and understand controls. Remote is great for viewing and editing photos on TV. Handles all media cards and even jump drive. Good quality prints.
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Does not work with 2GB SD cards
I was very hopeful that this printer would meet my needs. The printer worked fine with my 1GB SD card, and also when I connected my PictBridge-compatible camera. (I should mention that the dark tones in the printer appeared very dark.) However I also just bought a couple of 2GB SanDisk Ultra II cards. The printer doesn't recognize these cards when inserted into the appropriate slot - it gives an error message that the card could not be recognized. I contacted HP support and they verified indeed that the printer does not support SD cards larger than 1 GB. I'm sorry that I'll have to return the printer.
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Fantastic Product
I have not yet advanced to anything beyond "auto" on my digital camera; but within minutes of starting to print pictures using this photo printer, I was able to crop, enlarge, and brighten. I have printed over 300 pictures since receiving this printer, and I love it! It is so easy to use, and it prints an extremely sharp picture. I would highly recommend this printer.
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Sephy CP730 Does What It is Supposed To Do
Out of the box, with little instruction was able to print from camera, computer, memory card.
Don't expect much from printer editing tools: they are quite primative.
Photos are good resolution and at least as true as the store printed. And is easily taken with when travel to send as postcards home.
See no need for the battery power pack yet. Caution: Don't buy anything but the paper / dye cartridge combos made for this series of printer.
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Canon Selphy CP-730
This is a great little printer; it is very easy to use and makes great prints right out of the camera. The paper and cartridge are very easy to replace and the printer tells you when to replace the cartridge etc. The controls are easy to operate and get the hang of. So far I have made about two hundred prints, it's a snap.
I bought two of them.
And it is one of the few printers that takes a rechargeable battery, just in case.
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Changed my correspondence life
What do you call people like me? Photo-aspirants? I'm not a professional photographer. But I shoot images all the time, sometimes a dozen or two a day, trying to create a picture other people will find curious, entertaining, weird, surprising, silly, shocking: "refrigerator-quality," I guess.
Kris Hermanns told me her mother had a device like this, that printed postcards from digital cameras. I bought it on that slight recommendation. I had a new Canon PowerShot A620. I had a trip to France on the calendar. Kismet.
I've always used film. I was a film snob: I wanted beautiful images. The first photo that came off this Selphy CP730 printer blew me across the room. The color was intense, perfect, gorgeous; and in my hand in less than a minute, printed on glossy stock with a postcard back. I compared it to a film print and couldn't tell the difference. It was this printer, in fact, that convinced me that digital photography was as good as film. Not just "as good as" -- better, because of the control you have over color. Anybody want some aging, unexposed film? I've never gone back.
My system (which I sometimes pack up and travel with) includes my Canon digital camera, the Selphy printer, my MacBook loaded with iPhoto (which allows me to manipulate). It's a seamless, no-issues production process. I often pump out a half-dozen curious images a day, to send to friends, colleagues, family. It keeps me in touch with them at low cost. When we have our big summer party, I'll also use the Selphy to print out the invitations (created in Photoshop, so I can add text).
I sent a Selphy to my sister-in-law, Aimee, who IS an art and professional photographer; and she loves it, too.
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It just works
Anyone doing digital photography needs to calbrate their monitor. There are several reaconably priced hardware products availe which do that well. As a Mac user, the choices are limited. After reading reviews on several products, I purchased the Spyder2 and it works as advertised. The only issue was, I was unable to find a way to reset the monitor (30" Aple Cinema Display) to factory defaults. I disabled the manual controls and told the calibration s/w that there were no controls. It calibrated the monitor properly. Simple to use, reliable results. Good investment.
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calibrate your monitor
This product was recommended by a speaker at a photoshop workshop. He said it was the most accurate way to calibrate your monitor.
The product was shipped fast and was in good condition.
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Product Performs Well
I actually got very good results, particularly with a cheaper secondary monitor. Used this the day I got it, now I can actually use my secondary monitor for photos. (It's a Kogi monitor that was pretty good when new, but never the same after it failed and was serviced.) Anyway now the images are pretty reasonable. I did have to switch my monitor ports in order to calibrate the second monitor, I think that's a limitation of the non-Pro version of the software. Doing that on a regular basis would be a total pain. I don't know too many designers that only use one monitor these days and who else is gonna use this product? So, the single monitor limitation is sort of sucky. But the product works VERY WELL, as advertised.
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Needed Power
The original Toshiba unit died within 1 year of normal use. I hope that this one is more durable and will last longer.
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Awesome technology!
I'm amazed at the sound quality and features of this device. At first I was skeptical but after calling London, the Bahamas, New York, Grand Cayman Island, Seattle, and various U.S. stations, I'm convinced that Cisco / Linksys knows what the heck they are doing. Vonage has a pretty clear voice quality on their network. I'm not going to knock anybody here. If you don't like Vonage then use another service. Hey! It's a free country. Nobody forces you to use Vonage. We are not under Taliban rule yet... Heeeeeee!
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Small and easy to use.
I just arrived in Colombia. Bought this before I left so I can call back home. It's compact and perfect. I plugged it in to the router and brought a telephone which I plugged in. Immediate dial tone. I'm thinking I'll maybe carry it back and forth to work so I can have a phone all day.
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Great so far
I got this adapter about a week ago and so far absolutely no problems using this device and the Vonage service from Trinidad, which is in the Caribbean. Setup was a breeze and audio quality is crystal clear despite opting to use the lowest bandwidth option of the Vonage bandwidth saver feature.
I haven't awarded 5 stars because of the shortness of the evaluation period.
Important setup tip:
Make sure your firewalls (ISP and/or LAN) are configured to allow connection to the Vonage server.
Karl W.
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Noisy, Thirsty, Not For Everyone
When my beloved (and very tired) Epson R200 finally died (with a cryptic error message about some part "reaching the end of its service life") after printing literally thousands of DVDs over four years, I purchased the 260 as a replacement. It improves on the R200 in some respects, holds its ground on others, and is a major disappointment in several important ways.
It improves a bit on the R200 in the manner in which it handles disc printing. The tray is more durable, and no longer protrudes from the back of the printer while moving in and out. The visible guides are better, and the loading path is improved.
But a small lever, which raises and lowers the disc tray, is something of a noisy annoyance. Whenever the tray is adjusted, the printer can be heard making a mechanical adjustment inside, and this takes a few seconds. If you insert the disc tray too soon, bad things happen... And, in a puzzling software choice, if you try to print on paper while the tray is down, instead of caching the print job until the tray is raised (like the earlier model), now the job gets deleted and you have to print from your application again after raising the tray. Likewise, if you try to print a disc when the tray is up, the job evaporates and you must print again once the tray is lowered. This is really annoying. I used to stack up jobs onto various media, and then just adjust the tray as necessary once each job finished. That's not possible with this printer.
This printer holds ground in the print quality, which is excellent, but not noticeably different from the earlier printer (neither better nor worse), despite a bunch of marketing noise about print quality improvements. The driver software also combines the settings for regular paper and bright white paper. This is a bad idea which leads to slightly faded and over-saturated prints on regular paper, but no noticeable improvement on bright white paper.
Also, the driver still makes the user select between text-only, text-with-graphics, and the various photo modes. This is cumbersome. The driver should be able to tell if a document is all text or a combination of text and graphics. Offering selections for relative photo quality is fine, but the other options are unintuitive and unnecessary. The driver also still whines about printing borderless photos. If your printer claims to be able to do this, don't make your user click through dialog boxes containing warnings about reduced print quality at the edges.
The printer is much worse than its predecessor in three key areas.
First, it's much larger. You will need much more room on your desktop than with the earlier models. I can see no reason why it needs to be bigger.
Second, it's much noisier. All of the print modes are loud, and the paper feeding mechanism is especially loud. This is partly because the case is mostly hollow and acts like a drum, amplifying the sound of every moving part.
Third, and most disappointing, this model sucks down ink at a much faster rate than its predecessor. One would think that, after losing a class action lawsuit over ink handling issues, Epson would have made some changes. But whatever changes were made only make it worse.
Unlike earlier models, this printer seems to go through cleaning/warm-up cycles much more frequently, even if the printer is left on and no clean-up is requested. I'm routinely shocked to see ink levels in all colors drop by large margins when simply printing black text disc labels. This is completely unacceptable.
A key thing to notice is that it uses colored inks even when printing only black. I don't know if the color cartridges are used in combination with the black cartridge, or if ink is simply passing through them for some other reason. Either way, it's very, very bad -- and very, very expensive.
I had a full set of cartridges on hand when my R200 died, and simply exchanged them for cartridges for this printer. The price was exactly the same. Yet the new printer seems to go through the ink much, much faster. And, like earlier models, it's still impossible to continue printing if even one of the color cartridges is empty. That's just unacceptable after all the complaints users have lodged about this issue.
Overall, I'm disappointed. It works as advertised, but my costs per disc have gone up when they really should have gone down. And the quiet of my studio is often rudely interrupted by the noise this printer makes. It's unlikely that I'll stick with this printer as long as the last one. Epson is shooting themselves in the foot with high ink consumption and high ink prices. Short term, it will make more money. But long term, it will lose customers and all the money they might have given them.
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Getting the tray to work!
Tray rejections with the R-200 is part of the design flaw of the early models. While tech support says that the tray is warped and you need to buy a new one-or two, it usually is just worn. Try this: First check the lip for warping, if it is warped, heat it with a hair dryer on high setting and flatten it between two flat surfaces. If it's worn, place a thin, and thinned, layer of clear nail polish on the wear marks on the bottom of the leading edge. The leading edge is that thin, clear, plastic lip on the edge of the tray. No nail polish? Try a very thin layer of super glue as I did, over the entire clear strip. But definitely make sure it is dry before you print. Seems to work great. OK product, stinking design and not at all helpful company-their fault, they should make good on it. Go for an alternative if possible.
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Ink Alternatives For A Thirsty Printer
I just ordered this printer today, so I haven't tried it. Hence the middle-of-the-road rating.
HOWEVER, instead of being scared off by the horror stories of the printer being thirsty for very expensive ink, I did a little research on Google and eBay.
What I found was the standard ink cartridges contain 13 ml of ink. By inference, the high capacity (HC) cartridges should then contain 19.5ml (50% more, right?).
I found standard cartridges online for about $9 including shipping, and HC cartridges for about $11.
What really intrigued me, though, was the Continuous Ink Supply (CIS) systems. These have tanks that hold 100ml per tank, or more than 7 times as much as a standard cartridge. The CIS sytems I saw at auction were about $90+ or $55+ including shipping, which is much less than a set of standard cartridges from Epson.
I can't help but think bulk ink refills for these tanks will be much less expensive than any other ink mode.
Okay, let's do some math. A number of posts here say you get about 24 4x6 prints on a set of standard tanks, which costs about $94 + shipping from Epson. This is an ink cost of about $3.92 per print. (Oh GAG! 4x6 prints from Walgreens, Wal-Mart, or Kodak are less than 20 cents each!)
If we figure 24 prints per 13 ml, then the 100 ml tanks should be good for just over 180 prints (184.6). If you buy the CIS system, that would be a cost of about 30 CENTS per print.
But here's something fascinating. When you REFILL the tanks, it costs much less. In about 15 seconds of searching, I found bulk ink refills that come in 4 oz bottles (120ml) for $26.50, including shipping.
So your second batch of prints should come out to cost you about TWELVE CENTS each for ink, after you refill your tanks.
To me, that's VERY affordable.
I don't expect the refill inks will be as high a quality as the Epson CLARIA inks, but I do hold out hope they will be of acceptable quality.
One final note. Before I read about how the Epson inks don't smear and are water resistant, I expected them to be easily smeared. So I had planned to go to an art supply store and buy a can of spray fixative. I think a quick spritz of that fixative on the dried printed CD ought to make the ink much more permanent. And I think it should work on the cheaper inks as well.
As I said above, I haven't tried any of this yet, because I just ordered the printer today. But I hold out high hopes that the combination of high print quality, ability to print directly on CDs/DVDs, and not-all-that-expensive repacement inks, I'll have a decent system for a while.
Hope this heps some of you.
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Pretty pleased with this scanner
I purchased this scanner so that I could preserve a large find of family photos. While I don't know everything yet about how to use it, I can tell you that it scans beautifully, and that the film holders really cut down on time. Before I did them individually and it took forever. Now I do four strips at a time and edit later.
On the negative side, the manual is an absolute joke. There is no meaningful documentation. So don't count on being able to look stuff up, because you can't. And secondly, and this is happening a lot lately, the box from Amazon got really roughed up on the way. I was very disappointed in that. When I bought another device, a smaller one, the USPS used rubber bands and left it sitting on the open lid of my mailbox. That's not Amazon's fault, but I've been unhappy with packaging/delivery several times lately and I'd like them to be aware of it.
All in all, though, I have a lot to learn, and no manual, but I'm reasonably smart and have figured out what I need to know. I'm overall quite pleased.
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Highly Satisfied with the Epson Perfection V700 Photo Color Scanner
I am highly satisfied with this product. Scanning photos for me is a means to an end. The goal is to share web-based images and pleasing prints, occasionally as large as 8.5" X 11."
Prior to purchase, I researched extensively what I would need to digitize a large quantity of mostly personal photos - both those existing and any future pix I may take with my film equipment. Since the majority of the photos are 35mm slides and negatives, my initial inclination was a Nikon Coolscan film scanner. This was further reinforced by having been a Nikon user since the Nikon F days. Two factors, however, steered me in the flatbed scanner direction.
Studying reviews, both from sources such as Amazon's Customer Reviews and from other web sources convinced me that the Epson V700 would meet my needs from a scan-quality standpoint. And, a closer look at my photo collection revealed that there were numerous prints without corresponding 35mm negatives and a surprising number of medium format negatives, too. I felt it would be nice to digitize these, as well as the 35mm transparent material, but no film scanner could accommodate them all.
I purchased the V700 scanner through Amazon with expedited shipping. That went smoothly, as did the Epson set up.
The V700's graphical user interface is straightforward. Now, I have used for the last 5 years or so an Epson scanner in my business (embroidery design). While that scanner is much more basic in functionality, my previous experience gives the V700's user interface a comfortable, familiar feel.
I only installed the Epson Scanning Driver Software and the User Guide. I use Adobe Elements 5.0 for any enhancement and cleanup that may be necessary. I scan in Professional Mode, and most always turn off all Epson features. This has to be verified each time, by the way, since they have an annoying habit of mysteriously turning themselves back on. I could probably correct this, but haven't taken the time to delve into it since it's so easy to fix on the spot. I've developed recipes for handling the varied media I scan.
I put together a kit for film cleanup/preparation. It includes PEC-12 solution, PEC Wipes, a soft brush, cotton gloves, a can of compressed air left over from my old darkroom days, a bulb blower (aka ear syringe), a soft brush and cotton swabs. This kit, in combination with an antistatic plastic dustcover sized for flatbed scanners, has taken care of things so far. (Where real damage has to be dealt with, the restorative functionality of Elements 5.0 must be utilized.)
In addition to handling satisfactorily my scanning requirements, I like the way the V700 sits on my desk. When not in use, if a stray document or two is placed on it temporarily, no harm is done. It has its own on/off button conveniently located in front, which permits powering up my computer with or without powering up the scanner. The V700 simply fits into what I do and want to do. I am pleased with it.
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Perfect for boomer with tons of slides
As my dad was an outstanding photographer, I wanted to be able to archive his collection of slides for myself and family. This unit works extremely well for scanning slides at a resolution that is perfectly adequate for this purpose. I have found that the automatic feature works well for my purpose: you load up the slide holder with 12 slides, push the button, and go do something else for about 45 minutes. I have also used the negative holder with similar good results. Like some other reviewers, it took me a few tries to figure out where to put the holder, but once I got it figured out, it works fine. I also have used the scanner as a regular print scanner and it works just fine for that as well.
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Impressed
The color photos were as good as getting them developed at a photo shop.
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