Happy with Our New Printer (And It's Still so Small!)

[canyonwalker]

Just over a week in, I'm really happy with our new printer. Recall that a few weeks ago I decided it was time to replace our 11-year-old, large, photo-quality printer. I set up the new printer just over a week ago. Already I've run at least a dozen pages of text and a few sheets of photo paper through it. I'm pretty happy with it. Five Things:

• It starts up/is ready to print a page, fast. It doesn't go through a self-check/nozzle cleaning process for 30 seconds ~ 2 minutes like the older printer frequently did.


• It prints text-only pages, whether they're all black-and-white or include color, fast.


• It prints duplex, smoothly. I rarely want two-sided printing, but it's nice to know this option is available and trivial to use.


• It consumes ink slowly, if the guides in the the "Supply Levels" indicators are accurate. After printing a dozen pages of text and 3-4 sheets of photos none of the ink tanks were even down to 3/4 full. I swear my old printer would have some tanks half empty by this point.


• Text quality is great. Text is smooth and dark. It doesn't quite have the crispness of a laser printer but it's close— and it's way better than all the previous inkjet printers I've owned.

And OMG, even after a week of looking at it, my spouse still teases me, "It's so small!" Not only did it look tiny compared with the outgoing printer but it continues to look tiny on the shelf in our closet. That's because the 36" wide shelf used to be dominated by the older, wide format printer. Now the shelf is less than half full with this merely standard-sized printer.