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Canon’s $60 Inkjet Offers Plenty for the Price
You
know how cheap inkjets work: You buy the box for a small amount, and
then you end up spending enough on replacement ink to overtake the cost
of the machine.But if your print volume is fairly low, if you’re
looking to supplement a monochrome printer, or if you’re a parent
shopping for a back-to-school gift, a cheap inkjet can fill your needs
competently.Consider Canon’s new Pixma iP2600. Currently the
least-expensive inkjet we’ve tested, it’s bare-bones and somewhat slow.
Using plain paper, however, it produces precise, deep-black text and
surprisingly good-looking photos. If you shell out the dough for
special paper, its images look even better.?? The Pixma iP2600 joins
two Canon cousins in our current Top 5.Two other new low-cost models we
tested didn’t make the chart. Epson’s Stylus C120 deserves credit for
its fast print speeds: 15.1 ppm (pages per minute) printing text, and
up to 6.2 ppm printing graphics. But before you print your novel on
this machine, note that its output on plain paper is light-colored and
a bit fuzzy. You’ll need special paper to achieve the best
results.Lexmark’s Z2420 Wireless boasts integrated Wi-Fi and extremely
user-friendly help to walk you through the installation. Its middling
print quality and speed make it difficult to recommend as your sole
printer, but it would be a good, photo-centric second unit.Why buy a
plain old printer when you can get a multifunction for the same price?
An MFP does impose trade-offs. If you need to make copies or to scan
documents to e-mail, you may not mind wrestling with a multifunction
printer’s scanner or its button-busy control panel. But to cut costs,
an MFP’s core printing technology might be older or less capable than
that of a like-priced stand-alone printer. So if printing remains your
primary activity, don’t compromise on that core function just to save a
little money.
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