The HP4200 laser printer for a fast way to print

At my workplace, I am responsible for ensuring that all the printers are running properly and that they are compatible with the computers themselves. One of the main brands of printer that we use is HP, and the main model of printer that I usually choose is the HP4200 laser printer. This is quite a large and bulk office printer, which I like because it has plenty of paper trays and expansion options.

At the bottom of the printer there is a deep A4 sized paper tray. This can happily hold about a realm and a half of paper, which is great for printing those huge mail merge documents. The front of the printer has a door that flips down to make a second paper tray. Confusingly, the lower paper tray is named by the printer as ‘tray 2’ and the door tray is \tray 1’. Tray 1 is used mainly for envelopes. There is a slider on the paper tray to let you align the envelopes, and then all you need to do is choose the type of envelope that you are using and it will print perfectly every time.

My main annoyance with these printers is how frequently the fuser unit fails. The fuser unit is a replaceable part that costs about $150 to replace. When it fails, it stops fusing the toner to the paper, causes paper jams and often makes a loud crunching noise when printing. It is really simple to replace though, as it is accessible through a removable door at the back of the printer.

To save money on paper, this printer has the option of adding a duplexer. This is just placed in the back of the printer. I always forget to enable the duplexer in the printer, so if you have installed a duplexer in a HP4200 and it is not printing out, then you should check that you have turned the duplexer on in the printer settings.

All in all, I like this printer. It prints really quickly and it seems to do well with remanufactured toners too, which saves a fortune on toner costs.

Canon Printer review – eight years and still counting

In my second year of university I decided I really needed a printer so I could write all those school papers and also for my job as a translator. I wasn’t very well acquainted with printers at the time and I didn’t have a lot of money either, so I started to look for a product on the internet. Just like you, I browsed forums after forums to see what brand had the best reliability and a minimum cost. I read most good things about a model of Canon Printer (Pixma ip 1000), with two cartridges, one black and one colored, the inkjet type. I went and bought it and used it almost daily, sometimes to print one-two hundred pages in a row. I’ve never had any problems with it; the only things that got changed were the cartridges. It never refused to work, always delivered the same quality and if it was not the fastest printer, I never felt I had to wait too much for it to do its job. Since I bought it more than eight years have passed and I don’t find it old or fussy. The only thing I decided I needed more a scanner-copier so a multifunctional printer seemed to be the obvious choice. I went and bought it a sister, the new printer being, of course, a Canon one. I don’t believe I will ever choose another brand, since I have worked with some others at school or at work and there had always been problems. Those printers stopped working, weren’t recognized by the computer, took more paper than they should have or produced a low quality result. Since I got my Canon, I never encountered those kinds of issues and I don’t need them. Besides, I am very pleased that Canon has one of the cheapest cartridges on the market and I didn’t need to spend much money to use it to its full capacity. The exterior is also very classy and the materials didn’t seem to deteriorate over time, so I’ve never felt ashamed to have an old printer beside my new desktop or keyboard. Another asset is the quality of the images. Remember that I bought one of the cheapest models and still it printed in high quality. Maybe it wasn’t always producing images in a photo album quality but it did a great job for my school projects. My new Canon printer, even if a multifunctional one, wasn’t expensive at all; this time I’ve looked for quality too and I can even print photographs with it, without making such a big investment.

As it probably shows, I’m very proud of my old printer and I would recommend this brand to anyone who needs a sturdy, reliable, quality product and, of course, cheap to keep. Even if it didn’t have the qualities of a top laser printer, for an inkjet I believe it was great and deserved every penny. I may be a little emotional about it, since it was my first love, but its endurance over time speaks for itself and it cannot only be the result of my “love”.