What's the color printing quality like with this printer? How vibrant are the images? Are they grainy?
1783369
I do a printing business and I absolutely love this machine. Not only does the printer make non grainy prints it is the absolute lowest price high volume printer I could find anywhere. We do placemat advertising, and I print legal size placemats right off of this machine full color copies and I can't believe how wonderful the prints look. The fact that you can use thinner and heavier papers in it is a great feature and a huge benefit to me. I hope I answered your question if you need more questions answered I can be reached or called at uniqadvertisingsolutions@gmail.com or 920-246-5710 I bought this machine for the purposes of printing my wifes election medias and it saved us a huge amount of money and gave us great quality..
1783370
Pictures are not grainy, but the quality is dull. I keep a photosmart printer hooked up for flyers that need to be printed in color. You can't beat the brother 9460 for grayscale quality, speed, functions, etc for a small business. Well worth the purchase even though I do need the photosmart for color.
1783371
Color quality much better than I thought on plain laser paper. I have not used photo quality paper.Photos not grainy. This is a very good printer in all aspects.
1965514
I replaced my 8100 with this printer. The printing is not as clear or bright. But it is a good printer...no problems with it.
215079
Since we bought the printer for our engineering office last October, we have printed 1495 pages, 1116 of which had at least some color content, though only about 150 of those had large color pictures, the rest were mostly black and white drawings with a few color graphics and lines. We are still using the original color toner cartridges that came with the printer, and they are are all 2/3 full. We used up the black starter toner cartridge that came with the printer, plus we have used up about 45% of a TN-221BK black toner cartridge. Brother claims that the TN-221BK cartridge will print 2500 pages, and the TN-225C, M and Y cartridges will print 2200 pages. I paid $283 for a four pack of toner cartridges, one black and three color high-yield Brother brand cartridges. But it looks like I will mostly be buying black toner cartridges at $60 each. While not cheap, it is a heck of a lot cheaper per page than using ink jet printers, plus the printer is faster and quieter than ink jet printers, and the print quality is great. Plus there are no print heads to clog, which eventually killed most of the ink jet printers I've owned. Also, if the toner is not completely used up when the printer says it is you can reset the cartridge and keep printing until the cartridge is empty.
761178
The color prints were actually quite good. We shipped it straight to a conference we were hosting and printed a lot of stuff within a week. It held up great, and the comments I got from the team were that they were very happy with it.
1472779
Depends on your definition of "quality pictures". This printer all print acceptably, but not professional photo lab quality. There are far better printers on the market for photo printing (look for one that uses more colors).
2253012
I don't see why they would not be crisp and clear. This printer is used for critical fine-art photography. However, I think, this printer might be an overkill for such use. The ink that this printer uses is for producing archival quality prints with extremely accurate colors. Would you be printing on photo papers? If you are going to be printing on photo papers, and the color accuracy is important, this printer should be able to print, in my opinion - although I have no experience with CAD files and such.
2126857
Print is sharp and the image is crisp with a laser printer. I would imagine it does equally well with a jet printer. This paper quality is better than any other paper that I have purchased.
2006341
I think it will be a good document printer, I love the wireless feature. A Canon printers print head goes bad, but a HP print head is built into each cartridge so HP is a better device.
2142341
The quality is as good as any other printer. I find that the quality of my pictures is as good and sometimes better than the Kodak 5500 all-in-one printer I use at times.
1015000
I'm not quite sure what you standards are on "Photo Quality", I purchased 3 of these to use for my business and it is really living up to my standards. The toner lasts a VERY long time for the volume that I use it, it prints very fast, and I have yet to experience any troubles with the printer. For photo printing you may look at inkjets that are more used for that level of printing. However, this is not to say that the printer does not print well. I am quite satisfied with the level of color printing quality that this printer produces.
2098120
I have that printer and the disks look great. The cannon software to print on the disks is really generic tho.
1284557
I am satisfied.I only use it to print reading materials for myself and use save toner mode.I am not sure about your usage and quality requirement.
1834077
Carl! I just did it... took out the color cartridge and it printed a B/W image....hey thank YOU it is good to know just for general purposes. BTW it is darn good little printer and if you can find it on sale as I did (40 bucks) also there is a vendor here that sells both cartridges for under 20 bucks including shipping...they wanted 48 bucks at Staples for the dang cartridges themselves for cryin' out loud........:>}
2204438
Tough question to answer. Photo quality is such a subjective thing. What one person thinks looks great, another does not. Can this printer print photos...yes, absolutely it can. Do they look better than the best photo printers out there...well, no they don't. Do they look good? The quality of the print using the manufactures ink looks good to me using generic glossy photo paper. Good enough to print snapshots, make promotional items for school fund raisers, etc. Would I use this printer to create photos to enter a photo contest...probably not. Keep in mind this as well, the software allows for many different settings of how the printer will print a photo and I have not spent hours tweaking it to my tastes. I just use the default settings and was happy enough with the results to use it again for that purpose. The speed is OK. Not super slow, and not super fast either. I deal with a lot of large format (11x17) drawings...that was my purpose in buying this printer.
523182
Just a color printer. A good one, actually, considering it's a portable unit. Even the jets don't seem to clog even though I only do a "test print" when I do it's periodic "charge the battery" every other month. Your question came in on the sleeve. Think that reply should be somewhere...
1488929
This printer will print "acceptable" photos on good quality photo paper. Color rendition is good for snapshots, but never for archival or media production photos. You are getting what you pay for. If it is high quality you need, you will need a much more expensive printer.
1223805
I've owned my printer about 5-6 months so far & not had any problems with it. It's small sits on a small table beside my desk. It's fast printing, clear type, no smears,uses a USB port to hookup to the PC. I'd recommend buying it, I'm sure you'll like it as much as I do..