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Review of Deskjet 6988
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[QUOTE="jimintex, post: 119031, member: 826"] My old HP deskjet printer gave up the ghost recently. And when I say old, I'm talking ancient: at least eight years old, and probably pushing a decade. So it was time to get something new. I finally settled on a new HP, the [URL="http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/store_access.do?template_type=product_detail&product_code=CB055A%23B1H&jumpid=oc_R1002_USENC-001_HP%20Deskjet%206988%20Printer&lang=en&cc=us"]Deskjet 6988[/URL]. I'd not even really looked at printers for years, so I was pretty ignorant of what was available on the market. A project for work led me to [URL="http://www.printer.com/"]Printer.com[/URL]. They've got this system where you can tell it how you will use a printer, and it will return a list of printers that seem right for your needs. This particular HP came up second on my list. The networking capabilities were what really sold it. I can't tell how much that's a vital part of the internal workings of the printer and how much is a marketing thing, but I can say that all my computers can find the printer, and getting them to was the easiest part of the process. The hardest part was installing the printer on the first computer. For some reason, the installation CD didn't want to autorun, so I ended up having to “explore” the CD and manually launch the installation software. After that, everything went pretty smoothly. The printer itself is a dream. Its footprint is about the same as my old one, but not quite as tall, which means I can put another shelf in over it, if I get to feeling ambitious. It's easy to use, and though the expanded list of options I had to choose from was initially daunting, I was able to navigate through them to get what I wanted without having to resort to the manual. Even when just printing greyscale text, the printer does take a nearly half-a-minute to “think” about the job before it starts. Once it does, though, it's fast! Pages spit out rapidly with even print quality all across and down the page. Pictures are just as good, with vibrant colors. Really complex pieces do get a hint of horizontal lines if you hold the page up to the light just so, but the black-and-white gets horizontal lines really bad if you choose the “cheap” greyscale option, so avoid that unless quality isn't that important. Colors are good and vibrant and seem very solid, with no smearing or ghosting, and every pixel appears to be where it's supposed to be. Keep the paper tray full, though; when you get down to the last dozen or so pages, it has a tendency to grab more than one at a time. [/QUOTE]
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