Top 10 Inkjet Printers
New models from Canon and HP capture our two Best Buys this month, and the Canon also zooms to the head of the class.
Eric Butterfield
Two other new models that we tested didn't fare as well. The $50 Canon Pixma iP1600, the least-expensive model to make the chart this month, printed text almost as quickly as the pricier iP4200, but its letters exhibited rougher edges and the colors in its photos looked slightly faded. Similarly, the new $80 Epson Stylus C88 printed rough-looking text. The C88 is the only model here that can print banners up to 44 inches long; on plain paper, however, its color graphics lacked some of the fine details that many other models reproduced, and line art printed with unsightly banding.
The new, $100 HP Deskjet 5940 printed line art with obvious banding, and its glossy photos suffered from the same flaw. The unit's color graphics, on the other hand, showed sharp details and accurate colors.
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