Top Five Wireless Printers

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But aside from its printer function, this machine can also serve as a document feeder, a telephone handset, and a digital answering machine. Sweet! Its other features include memory card slot for computer-free printing, print speed of up to 20 ppm for black ink and 15 ppm for color ink, up to 100 sheets borderless printing, ScanSoft PaperPort and OmniPage OCR Software for and Windows and Presto, and supports various memory card formats including Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro, xD-Picture Card, xD-Picture Card Type M, SmartMedia, CompactFlash, Secure Digital and MultiMediaCard.

This printer also comes with separate ink cartridges for Black, Magenta, Cyan and Yellow. The Black ink cartridges gives out 500 pages at 5% letter size page coverage while the other three's page coverages are all pegged at 400 pages at the same 5% letter size page coverage.

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Printing wise, the Lexmark X4850 is capable of giving out up to 30 ppm black printing speed and 27 ppm color printing speed. You can also use it as a flatbed scanner which can handle thick books, reports and other printed materials. It supports memory cards and USB flash drive which enables direct printing without the need of computers. This printer also boasts of a 2.4-inch color display which allows you to enhance your photos prior to printing them.

The Lexmark X4850's other features include 2-sided printing, business class speed, supports PictBrigde, borderless printing, and draft mode printing, up to 4800 x 1200 dpi resolution, duplex printing support, 100 sheet input, and 25 sheet output. This printer comes with 4 Color inkjet (cyan, magenta, yellow, black) and an optional 6-color photo printing technology. The Lexmark X4850 wireless printer costs $154.

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Other features of this wireless printer include scanner resolution of up to 4800x4800 dpi, 48-bit scanner color, and up to 100 sheets input tray. It supports various paper sizes including letter, legal, executive, cards, panorama, 4x6 in, A4, A6, B5, A2, DL, C6 supported media type, paper, envelopes, labels, and cards. You can also preview your pictures before printing via the printer's 1.5-inch color display.

It also comes with a 4.5ml HP 74 Black inkjet cartridge and a 3.5 ml HP 75 Tri-Color inkjet cartridge. The HP Photosmart C4385 AIO wireless inkjet printer will set you back $199.99.

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It also features a dual-paper path that allows you to keep photo paper on one end and plain paper on another end. The Canon PIXMA iP5200 printer also enables you to do double-sided printing using its auto sheet feeder or the paper cassette.

Its wireless feature supports 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi standard and allows you to print up to 164 feet away from the printer. This printer also features the ContrastPLUS five-color ink system which is composed of a four dye-based and one pigment-base black ink. These enables the printer to produce realistically colored photo outputs. Like most Canon PIXMA printers, the iP5200R doesn't cost too much, retailing only for $120.