Dell Color Printer 720 - Printer - color - ink-jet - Legal, A4 - 4800 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 13 ppm (mono) / up to 8 ppm (color) - capacity: 50 sheets - USB Reviews

• The worst printer in the world.

  
  By A32Z1V9II49XZY on 2006-08-09
  This is the worst printer I have ever seen, met, read about, or heard tell of. Nothing about it seems to work. The pages constantly misfeed, as if some mysterious force is actually preventing ANY of them from going in straight. And you know how some printers will occasionally grab 2 or 3 pages at once? Yesterday mine grabbed 9 pages, in a scattered sort of way so that I got a little bit of my document on all 9 pages. Who knows, maybe it thought I wanted a fun little puzzle.
  
  The overall image quality is horrid; and occasionally, it will refuse to draw ink from a cartridge even when I KNOW the cartridge is full. The reason I know this is because I've tried multiple cartridges; but more telling is the fact that when it "gets thirsty" it will start to draw ink again.
  
  I give this printer an A+ for personality; not because I think it's stylish, but because it's really like owning a finicky cat, or a wounded dog. In fact, it does so little printing that I sometimes forget it's actually a printer. Never a dull moment.
  
  But for speed, reliability, and quality, it gets an F, an F, and another F - as in ZERO PERCENT. And it comes as no shock me at all that you can buy it here on Amazon for less than the cost of a Skim Latte Grande at Starbucks.
  
  

• SLOW, SLOW, SLOW

  
  By A37JNUJSVAJKYN on 2006-02-19
  This printer is the slowest printer I have ever had, my inkjet printer from 1993 is faster than this one! I don't know what the deal is with this printer! The quality is something to be desired too - it did not do to well a printing a "PHOTO QUALITY" print! Spend the extra money and trade up to the all in one printer by Dell!
  
  

• If you have to cheap out this is the way to go!

  
  By A3JTWE5LVL47M3 on 2006-06-03
  I got this because, I just can't have everything in life, and it is obviously the most affordable out there. I found so many bad reviews but took the chance and am GLAD I DID. You will find complaints about the price of cartridges, but you will also find there are more and more (professional) ink refill stores popping up everywhere. I pay $14.99 for a black ink refill and $16.99 for color. The ink is not "universal" junk and the service takes just 10 minutes, is guaranteed and is just as good as the real thing. The printer is compatible with most computers/operating systems (just make sure). The photo quality is not the best but good for the money, you do have to specify what you are printing and what type of paper and use the best quality print job to get good results. I am picky but frugal and I think for the price, you will be satisfied. FOUR STARS FOR THE PRICE!
  
  

• Not bad for free

  
  By A2G27AJWU370D on 2006-05-26
  I got this printer free with the purchase of a laptop. I already have a really nice all-in-one photo printer, as well as a Kodak Easy Share Photo Printer dock, so I didn't really need this printer. It does come in handy, though, when I'm downstairs, away from my other printer. I do most of my laptop computer work in the kitchen, so I plugged this in down there so I wouldn't have to run upstairs to retrieve a printed copy. It does a fine job on documents.. black and white. It is horrible with graphics though. It's a fine freebie, but I wouldn't pay for it.
  
  

• Nice little printer

  
  By A23XISDIQSLZK6 on 2007-08-17
  I got this new with a new Dell PC and it served me well. The black ink cartridge holds quite a bit of ink so it doesn't rip you off like some of them. It prints black text very well, which is mostly what I use it for. I found it very reliable. I have no complaints with it.
  
  
• not bad - for a freebie
  By A19H8B8OZWOGBW on 2006-09-26
  I got this printer free with my laptop purchase, and it's not bad. Really. I have a b&w laser printer for large documents, so I use this for color and smaller jobs. It's small enough that it's portable, so I take it with me on scrapbooking weekend trips. It's nice having a computer and printer of my own so I can do computer journaling for my book, and USB printers are horribly expensive.
  
  It's quirky and has occasionally eaten an expensive sheet of vellum paper or fed a sheet of paper crookedly, but since I use this primarily for scrapbooking, I can usually crop the errors out of the paper. But I've been able to print on oddly sized pieces of paper most of the time with no trouble, which is convenient.
  
  I can't speak to its photo print quality, but I get my digital photos printed at shutterfly.com. I would never trust my photos to this thing... :)
  
  
• Dont believe the hype.
  By A1USCIYKJML27Q on 2006-10-13
  Being honest this printer is not bad at all. In this technology age, people are looking for multifunctional printers that does everything, but write your homework for you. If you only need a printer that just prints this is a very great printer. This printer is perfect for children who do not need to fax and do other things. Even for adults who simply want to print documents. The size is perfect for the average desk space. It prints pretty fast despite the previous reviews. In fact it prints better than the printer i bought after it. It was a very new dell and I sent it back and kept using this one.
  
  
• Budget printer, does a great job :-)
  By A1QEPUHCP14UZW on 2006-11-14
  Save cash and still get a printer that works...easy setup...just plug it in!
  
  
• terrible
  By A19D9U9KEUXBHR on 2007-03-16
  I recieved this printer for free, but I see that you can pretty much get this printer for next to nothing now on this website. The printer has two nice features, 1. it comes with free ink, and 2, it is possibly the most inexpensive printer you can buy. Aside from that, you get what you pay for. The papers never feed correctly, you get this stupid dell software that has about 5 add ons, that ask you to buy more printer ink every time you print something, some budget imaging software. Overall the quality of the product is terrible. I was in the middle of printing out resume's for a job fair and the printer head stopped functioning correctly (it did NOT run out of ink), I ended up with 3 out of 10 resumes thank god. The opportunity cost of buying a dependable printer is too high to settle for the cheapest printer money can buy. I suggest if you are looking for an inexpensive printer, buy the $30 HP, they have been making printers a lot longer than Dell and they are known for their great quality. I am buying the HP D2330 now, it has identical specs however it will feed paper correctly, and will have better quality parts.
  
  
• Pffft
  By A1V2MAW89DD5HC on 2007-04-14
  I needed a printer just to print out word documents for school with an occasional picture for a report. I didn't need anything fancy. About after a week of using it, it went haywire.
  
  It ate paper and wouldn't feed correctly. And that was about six months ago, and it still does not print. I've had people look at it and they couldn't fix it.
  
  It's a piece of Junk!
  
  

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