HP Deskjet 990cxi (HP Deskjet 990c)

Member Name: adamp111

Product:	HP Deskjet 990c
Date:	26/05/09 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: Reliability, good text reproduction

Disadvantages: Poor photo quality, slow.

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 actual performance, on good quality, it prints at between 3-4PPM, and on draft quality, this increases to around 8PPM. The quality of text reproduction is good and is difficult to fault. One gripe would perhaps be that my paper feeder doesn't appear to feed in a straight line, resulting in wonky prints. I'm yet to work out whether this is a printer fault, or an error on my part, but in the mean time, I would advise against buying this printer.

Summary: An OK printer if you're not doing much more than print text.

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