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How good is the color printing quality?

• kazinator 10y ago
  Honestly, I would say fair to awful. Some of the "awful" is due to driver issues, I'm sure. I've seen an image come out too red looking, but it wouldn't reproduce with the same image. I've been pleasantly surprised by some of the results, but not so pleasantly by others. To land a verdict in, I would have to try something on proper glossy paper. Anyway, to me, it's really a pointless question; if you want good color, take your files to a pro printing shop. You're not going to get good color at home. Printing photographs (e.g.) at home is a silly waste of money. Firstly, it requires ink, not toner. (Rules out a LED or laser printer like this). Toner is colored plastic powder: the three colors don't blend properly. On a given pixel, more of one toner is going to end up on top, and even though it's melted by heat, it's not going to produce the right effect, like when drops of liquid ink blend together. Ink requires an inkjet, and an inkjet is a silly thing to own. The ink is used up quickly and is expensive. You have to print quite regularly otherwise they dry up and clog. If you try to refill the cartridges yourself (e.g. open holes in them and syringe in the ink), you risk introducing particles of impurities which will clog the heads, and then the unit is kaput. After all that, the cheap inkjets that people buy for home use don't compare to big, professional printing units. You will end up pay more per image than if you send out for it. I have this printer for printing documents and the occasional image (perhaps embedded in a document). Color adds a nice dimension to docs, and doesn't have to be correct.