Dell Photo All-in-One Printer 944 - Multifunction ( printer / copier / scanner ) - color - ink-jet - copying (up to): 18 ppm (mono) / 11 ppm (color) - printing (up to): 21 ppm (mono) / 16 ppm (color) - 100 sheets - USB

When I purchased my Dell Computer the sales person said they would "up grade" me with this printer. I thought, FANTASTIC, it proved to be a big disappointment. Fax mode takes 3 to 4 minutes to send out the scanned sheets. The inks ran out in the printer and when I replaced them with their expensive ink the system totally went down with no prints and the unit telling me that there was no ink in the new and functioning ink cartridges. When I called the DELL Service (or lack of Service) number, their representitive (from a place he could not tell me where) told me to go and buy a new printer as they could not help me and then thanked me for using DELL's service line. No follow up on my call was ever acknowledged. Junk from DELL IS HELL!

For a little while i guess this printer does an OK job. It's a little slow but I can live with that. The scanning and copying isn't too bad. But it's been a little less than a year and this printer is the worst part of my life. It takes me over half an hour to print a 3 page report. It jams all the time. I can't even put multiple sheets of paper in the tray, I have to feed it paper one at a time for it to print. And I have to mention again, it jams like crazy. Just now I got so mad at it I punched my table and have an aching hand. I will never buy a printer from Dell again and I highly recommend no one does either.

I got this printer free with my Dell laptop in 2007, and it's worked ok for the basic print jobs I give it, but it's finally started to crap out to the point where I need to upgrade.

Ink is about $20/cartridge at Wal-mart, and I need to replace it every 2-3 months with moderate use (~10 pages/week).

It prints fairly fast for black and white, but much slower for color pictures. Photos tend to contain little white lines through them regardless of how much I run the cleaning cycle. It only connects through a USB cable (provided), so I need to drag my laptop over to the printer whenever I need something done.

Scan time is about 30 seconds for a high-quality picture, and seems to provide accurate scans. I've only used the copy feature for sheet music and textbooks, which are both a pain to align in the scanner bed and you have to squish it down just right. However, after a little fiddling, everything comes out ok.

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