Printer suggestions

I know this probably isn't the right discussion but I didn't know where else to go and I always get great feedback from you guys. I need to get a new printer and I would like one that is bluetooth. I don't need anything REAL fancy, although I would like one that prints pretty fast (and color obviously) Does anybody have any good suggestions. My friend has a new imac and he bought a nice new epson, and its pretty nice, but he's having a hard time getting the bluetooth to work. Does anybody know of one that for sure does work. Any suggestions at all.

Hello Eric,
I used to use Canon back years ago. I finally gave-up when I started going through ink too fast. I seem to remember writing a letter of complaint that went along the lines of "for the amount of money I spent in ink this month I could have purchased a much nice HP printer". Naturally, that was worded as such because HP printers were like $300 at the time and Canon printers were around $100 to $150.
I haven't used Canon since.
But, from my experience, I've found that HP's drivers are generally all included in Mac OS X, so I've never had the need to look for an alternative driver. I just plug it in, and it works. The only exception is when the printer comes out after the current OS version. But, then it always comes with a driver.
In my case, I just installed the driver that came with the 5420, and it installed smoothly and works great.
For the people with newer Intel Macs, the driver for the 5420 is already built-into OS X and is Universal / Intel Native.
But, as I mentioned above, I haven't used Canon printers myself in many years. So, I don't have much to compare to. But, I've had no complaints with HP printers and Macs.
Now, I have setup Canon printers for some PC friends (using Windows), and those worked great. They didn't produce the quality of print I expected, but that could have been the particular model they chose.
I guess it all depends on what you like

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I bought an HP C410a AIO Photosmart printer. Great printer. Works well with my iPhones and iPad thru AirPrint. Works great over Wifi with my MBP too. Has a separate paper tray for 5x7" photopaper. I took advantage of the HP trade-in and receive $50 rebate offer.This program does involve sending HP your old printer, but HP paid for the shipping! My net price from Staples came to $150 (after the rebate).
Some people say HP ink cartridges are too expensive but I plan to use CostCo ink refill service to cut my costs considerably.
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Mac (with Airport) in the office. We are in need of a
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of our computers. Don't want to spend a fortune, but
we need one that will que some large documents and
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There are a couple of things that could be going on, and as an aside, trying to match a solid background to a sampled area in an image is seldom successfule as there is too much variability in the actual color in most images.
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Hi Hotrodgirlly,
Welcome to Apple Discussions
What are you going to use the computer for and what features do you want(example: mostly printing documents, normal amount of pictures, professional photography, as well as all-in-one, scanner, fax, fast printing, portability, quality of print outs, etc)? Price range?
You may want to look at the following threads...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1718307
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1198652
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1858479
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We should have other kinds of ink that we can install - for example, for those of us that do Scrapbooking wouldn't it be nice to have NEON ink kits, or Glitter Ink kits, also, if we are a cake decorator, why can we only have two kinds of printers? Why can't their be Edible Ink for all of the printer machines available on the market???
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I agree completely.
HP has all kinds of different printer software for all kinds of different printers, but most of them do much the same thing.
In fact, the panorama feature seems to have been removed from the Photosmart software.....Premier isnt even available for Vista, I dont think?
But, HP does offer many web pages to do some of the things your talking about here...Programs that run from hp.com.
Edible ink? Nah, I'll pass on that one, but some of your other ideas rock!
Russell

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I'm looking for a good color laser printer for between $500 and $1000 for a small office. Don't need an all-in-one. Just a good printer. Ideally, a Bonjour enabled model.
This'll be used with two PowerBooks and desktop G4.

There are more and more good ones out there every day. You will have to decide for yourself, but when I was looking for one, I was looking for:
1. Good print quality.
2. Good speed, both black & white and color.
3. Duplex printing.
4. The ability to handle envelopes reasonably.
5. Reasonable cost of supplies.
6. PostScript, although that is pretty much a given these days.
I got a Ricoh Aficio 2000N, and it had a feature that I really like:
7. Paper tray capacity of at least a full ream.
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vedranflat wrote:Iam from Croatia, which Kyocera printer do you consider?
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