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The Brother MFC-J825DW, Kodak ESP Office 2170 and Epson Stylus Pro 3880 are all highly rated in terms of customer satisfaction when speaking of photo printers. For simpler needs, there are a number of printers that are highly rated.
There are several brands of photo printers that all do a good job printing photos. However HP is among one of the best printers there is out there to have.
Most all-in-one printers include a printer, scanner, and fax machine. Some of the fancier all-in-one printers provide a photo copy machine as well.
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First of all, cheap prices on printers may mean more cost in supplies later. The cheapest photo printers will use the ink up very very quickly requiring constant replacement.
There are a lot of good quality picture printers on the market today. PC World and PC Magazine's top two printers are the Epson Picturemate and the Epson Stylus Photo R2000. Top Ten Reviews has the HP Photo Smart C310A and the Canon Pixma iP100 as their top two photo printers.
In a search for computer printers, the first two found in a search cost a combined total of $269.98. This is for two different brands of All-in-One printers.
All printers are peripheral. Peripheral means the device can be directly connected to the computer.
A printer is a device used to take images and/or text from a computer and put it on paper. There are several different types of printers: Laser Printers Inkjet Printers Pin Printers Thermal Transfer Printers Impact Printers
Hewlett Packard, commonly referred to as HP, makes many models of computer printers. Some of the more popular printers are their color laser printers and all in ones, which print, scan, fax and copy.
HP photo printers can vary by size and portability. The more expensive models can produce higher quality photos. It all depends on the model that you purchase.
There are multiple interfaces / cables that have been used to connect printers to a computer, each with a different number of wires. USB, for instance, has only 4 wires, while IEEE 1284 (parallel / Centronics) has 25 pins, although not all of them are always used for all printers. IEEE 1394 (FireWire) has either a four or six-wire cable, while the ADB (Apple Desktop Bus) port used 4 wires.