Inexpensive, but not worth the bother.
Written: Jul 22 '00
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Pros: Inexpensive
Cons: Quite a few
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| John-Q-Public's Full Review: Xerox DocuPrint XJ6C InkJet Printer |
After spending much of the past year yelling at my DocuPrint XJ6C for failing to perform competently, I have now decided to get a new printer. I picked up this printer at an agreeably low price slightly over a year ago and thought I was getting a bargain. If I only knew...
Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, as a great man (Dennis Miller) once said, so I shall simply list my grievances against the DocuPrint XJ6C:
1) It jams frequently. Getting the jammed paper out of the printer is a pain (but at least this can be done without tearing the paper).
2) It does not handle large documents very well. I don't believe I ever managed to get this danged thing to print more than 3 pages at a time before it misfired and accused me of neglecting to put enough paper in the tray.
3) The on-screen display that keeps track of the ink left in the cartridges is unreliable. I have been unpleasantly surprised more than once as the meter suddenly jumped from half-full to nearly empty.
These are problems I've had ever since I got the printer. In the last couple months or so a few additional glitches have cropped up:
4) The rollers (or whatever you call those things that drag the paper through the printer) aren't functioning properly. Often it fails to catch the paper in the tray, forcing me to try to push the sheets down the tray until the printer manages to grab them. And I have to do this very quickly, before the printer complains about having no paper and I have to start all over.
And finally:
5) It isn't printing. At all. Certainly, the printing thingy is zipping back and forth across the page as it usually does, and making the appropriate printing noises, but no ink appears. I have had the ink cartridge replaced, to no avail. It won't print.
On the plus side, the DocuPrint is fairly good at printing letters and suchlike, provided that you can get the paper to run through it correctly (see above). But on the occasions where I printed out pictures, I found that the colors came out much lighter than I wished. (Incidentally, the black ink cartridges cost me about $10-$12 each at Office Depot.)
In sum, avoid it.
Recommended:
No
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