Printer suggestions for college?

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<p>CC is my alternative (preferred) to Consumer Reports when it comes to college gear :). Son needs a printer for college this year (last year, shared roommate’s). He is thinking an all-in-one because he needs to scan stuff into his computer as well as make copies and print. Suggestions? We have an older hp psc 2210 all-in-one at home which has worked flawlessly. Now there are more compact versions but there are about 4 different models ranging in price at Office Depot from 80 to 170 dollars. Does anyone have one they particularly like???</p>

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<p>HP 6100 all in one fax, copier, scanner, printer with a port for digital camera direct transfer of files. Also prints in black and white or color. Cartridges run $25.00 for color, $10.00 for black and white. We bought ours for $170.00, but that was at the Navy exchange. </p>

<p>Another thing that is nice is the paper tray which holds ~50 sheets and the auto feed feature on the copier/fax/scanner so you don’t have to stand there and feed the sheets in like a flatbed model. The fax is very handy when they have paperwork that you need, or vice-versa. </p>

<p>Our son’s worked so well we bought one for ourselves!</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

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<p>We just went out and bought one today! My H considered the cost of cartridges along with the cost of the printer and bought an HP all-in-one (model 1610) for $129 at Best Buy. It’s a manual feed but it is more compact than the automatic feed one, and that was a comparison. When checking out printers, consider the cost of cartridges. It’s a bit like cameras and films.</p>

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<p>hp 1510 is also a good deal (similar to the 1610, a little slower though).</p>

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<p>Oops. I meant consideration, not comparison.</p>

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<p>We got the 1610 for school (school gives us a laptop/printer) and I like it pretty well so far. I haven’t tried to scan/copy anything yet, but it seems to work fairly well for printing, and it’s pretty compact.</p>

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<p>We just bought the 1510 also, but I don’t think it has fax (we didn’t need it)</p>

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<p>I noticed that the specs for the 1610 require XP Professional (doesn’t say XP home works), whereas the specs for the 1510 say any XP system. So I guess I need to find out S’s OS–it might be XP home…</p>

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<p>1610 works with xp home:</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?product_code=Q5587A%23ABA&tab=detailed_specs&storeName=storefronts&landing=printers&category=all_in_ones&subcat1=family&catLevel=3#defaultAnchor[/url]”>http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?product_code=Q5587A%23ABA&tab=detailed_specs&storeName=storefronts&landing=printers&category=all_in_ones&subcat1=family&catLevel=3#defaultAnchor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>oh, great, thanks!</p>