HP Deskjet 350cbi

If you are looking for a static desk based printer this one is not for you. The single cartridge capacity (you have to swap between colour and just black) makes it fiddley and it can be expensive if you do a lot of prints. The paper feeder is small so you have to restock it regularly if you print long documents and takes a little getting used to making paper mis-feeds common until you learn how to set it just so. It also complains if you try and squeeze anything bigger than 80g paper through it. The print quality is OK but not exceptional .. this certainly isn't a photo printer. It's not cheap. You can get much better quality, faster ...

I brought this printer because it was cheap and did not take up a great deal of valuable desk space. However, in hindsight, I wish I had invested that little bit extra and had brought a better model. Its pitfalls are :- 1) Although being a colour printer it only holds one cartridge at a time. Therefore, everytime you want to print something with any colour you have to swop the cartridges over. The software does prompt you to do this however. But as well as being tedious this system has to mix all the colours to make black which gives poor results and obviously uses the cartridge up very quickly. 2) It is noisy compared to other Deskjets. 3) The ...