HP Deskjet 990c

Know for years for their brown tangy sauce, HP have branched out into computer equipment, most notably printers. OK, OK I know it's not the same company, but it makes me laugh. Yes I am easily pleased! Anyway on with the show, the 990 is HP's (Hewlett Packard) latest inkjet printer. It's the newest addition to the highly successful DeskJet range. Following in the footsteps of last years 950 and 970 printers this carries printing technology one step further. The 990 is, at the moment, the fastest inkjet you can buy. At maximum speed you should be able to print black text at an amazing and paper scorching 17 pages per minute. (Before ...  Read the complete review

I brought this printer in 2001 for just over £200. Even though the price has dropped slightly, there are cheaper HP printers out there, although print speeds may be slightly slower. Easy to setup, but I soon noticed that the printer was making an indent on every sheet of paper I printed, which wasn't good. After calling technical support, I was told to return the printer for a replacement. The new printer didn't dent the paper, but it still seemed to handle the paper quite roughly and the 'wings' which hold the paper out while printing seemed to operate only when it felt like it. I've printed over a thousand pages of text and ...  Read the complete review

I've recently gone back to University and our post-grapduate computer LAN has a HP Deskjet 990cxi for the use of Honours students. This printer is really very capable of handling the large amount of printing we tend to do - sure, we go through about 1 ink cartridge a week, but I was so impressed with the speed at which it prints documents. Even more impressive to me was that it is capable of double-sided printing, automatically. My printer at home is the Lexmark 3200, and I get so annoyed at printing documents - I have to first print all the odd-numbered pages, wait for them all to be completed, then turn the stack of pages around and replace them ...  Read the complete review

It's difficult to recommend this printer, since it no longer really has any kind of market. As a student, I use it for continually churning out journal articles and essays, but since cartridges are expensive, it's not a great printer for a student to have. The printer doesn't print particularly quickly by modern standards, so wouldn't really suit the office environment. Neither does it print in particularly high quality, so it also wouldn't really suit the home creative enthusiast. So while it fulfils its mandate as 'a printer' reasonably well, printing consistently and without fault, it's difficult to say that this is a good purchase for anyone. In terms of ...  Read the complete review

The HP Deskjet 990cxi professional series is the highest quality colour printer that I have ever owned. I have owned lots of other printers made by all sorts of manufacturers and this is the best one yet. It is a photo quality printer and it is very fast at printing, it will do on average about 17 pages of black and white per minute and about 13 pages of colour per minute. It is a very intelligent printer and if there is a problem it will tell you by a flashing red light. When you notice this red light you should open the top of the printer and the cartridge will come out. This cartridge has an arrow on top of it and it will move out and point at a symbol ...  Read the complete review