HP Officejet Pro K5400dtn

The HP k5400dtn is a great printer, has two speeds, fast and faster. We use these printer with our Continuous Ink Systems. They were designed as a continuous ink system from the factory, ink tubes run from… the cartridges to the separate printheads. Pros Extra page tray (600 sheets) Duplex printing (both sides, great for brochures, we recommend HP tri-fold matte) Network ready (Ethernet) CIS ready (install a continuous ink system in less than five min.) XP and Mac OS 10.5 ready These are great system. Buy this on Amazon and then add a Continuous Ink System for the HP#88 cartridge and save 95% on ink, WOW Check out the Website [...]. The Cons It's a big printer You cannot go wrong with this system, we print out 1000s of pages per month at pennys a page.

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II got this printer because I wanted a color printer that would connect to my home wireless network so that my wife and daughter could print from their laptops. The good news: The printer connected to… the network without any problems. The printer is very, very fast. The text print quality is superb. The graphics are a step down from some printers but then again this is not advertised as a photo printer and graphics are more than satisfactory. The bad news. After a while the printer starts to take a lot of time and make a lot of noise when it is turned on. It appears that the print heads are cleaning. The print heads are also using a lot of ink while cleaning. Further, the print heads start to degrade over time and lines of text start to fade out. Worse, replacing the print heads is very expensive. The problem is that unlike some printers, the print heads are separate from the ink cartridges and therefore you do not get a fresh print head when you replaces an ink cartridge. This does mean that cost of the ink cartridges is less, but when you factor in ink wasted while the print heads are cleaning and the cost of replacement print heads, this printer becomes very expensive to use. If not for the problems with the print heads I would give it a 5 star rating. I am not willing to spend a lot of money maintaining this printer and it is going to be replaced. I think I am going to give up on color and get a good laser printer that is network ready. If I need color I will take a memory stick to a print store and print in color that way. I really like this printer but it is just not reliable enough.

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and have not been disappointed over the past year of ownership. Here is the quote from the review that sold me: "[M]y research points to the HP Officejet K5400 as having the most cost-efficient ink supply… right now. The estimated cost per page of black ink for the K5400 is 1.4 cents, and color is 5.9 cents per page ... It prints extremely fast, faster than any desktop printer I've seen. It runs reliably, and prints with near laser-quality for office stuff." Full review here: http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/002701.php

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