Well..I bought this printer about 2 and a half years ago and it cost me 500 $ (I don't know why I did so, but I did).
This printer is very very big. It can print on bigger pages than A4. It is not an inject printer! It's a dry ink printer, or how Alps calls it "Micro Dry Printer".
It uses ink cartridges that look like tape cassettes whick dry color is sticked to them. There are four of those:
black, yellow, cyan, magenta. There are even white cartridges and even gold and silver. There is a special cartridge which is called "Finish Cartridge" and it's for photos. it makes them glossy or somthin and makes it great quality. There are metal cartridges for this thing and it's pretty cool. You don't have to wait 'till the ink dries because it comes dry and it doesn't get off it if you spill water on it. This printer is extremely slow.
When it prints color it starts with the first cartridge.
then, after it finishes printing with it, it takes the page back inside and then it switches to the next cartridge and does another layer of each cartridge's color and another one. It's done every time you print with color and it takes a long time. If you want a full color page it takes more than 8 minutes. This printer always jams.
You can't put more than one page at the time, you have to do everything manual. The cartridges are getting finished very very fast because what the printer does is gets the letters on the spool and the letters get sticked to the page and thats it. that's why it never misses a spot and it can print on the smoothest page. because the printer prints in a horizontal way and after it finished with a line it gets to the one right down to it, you can see intervals between the lines which makes it have bad printing.
It has only parallel connection and does not support USB.
This printer costs a lot of money and does not worth the price. And who knows Alps? Never hears of them....


Recommended: No

Amount Paid (US$): 500
Operating System: Windows