The Dataproducts Typhoon 20 offers multiple paper-handling options. The Typhoon we tested has three 250-sheet paper trays and supports paper sizes from letter to B5. It also has a manual-feed tray for postcards, heavy paper stock, and adhesive labels. An optional multimedia feeder inserts stacks of envelopes--which, in most printers, must be inserted one at a time--and a face-up exit tray spares transparencies from being curled by the printer's rollers. The 20-ppm laser printer, which supports resolutions of up to 800 dpi in PostScript mode, has an intuitive control panel and is capable of churning out 50,000 pages per month.
Epson's Stylus Color Ink Jet Printer lets you know where
you stand. The Epson Spool Manager utility icon appears on-screen when you send data to the printer. If you double-click on this icon, a dialog box appears, informing you of the status of the print job, including details of the current page. Nested menus let you hold print jobs, reorder them for later printing, or delete them. Another nice feature is that you don't have to swap color and monochrome cartridges; both are installed at all times.
The DEClaser 3500 is one of the few printers around that let you edit
watermarks
, the superimposed text controlled by the driver on your final output. If you're not in love with your confidential or draft watermark, you can open the DEClaser 3500's printer-setup utility and change the text, font, size, angle, percentage of gray, and x,y position of a watermark. This 12-ppm workgroup laser printer provides many ways to improve the quality of output; its SmartLaser imaging feature analyzes all
your print jobs and chooses the best of three imaging modes (spreadsheets and tables, presentations, and entire page as graphic) for the job.
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