Dan Littman

HP Deskjet 845c Color Inkjet Printer

Despite its $99 price, the Deskjet 845c delivers impressive-quality output: smooth, detailed gray-scale and color graphics, plus superb highlights and shadows on glossy photos. It even does well on narrow parallel lines. The Deskjet 845c's power supply, though enormous, has unusually long cords on both ends so you can stow this printer under a desk.
Text pages printed at a leisurely 3.8 ppm in our tests. Most other units we tested outperformed the 845c's speed of 0.5 ppm on graphics. Black ink is pricey at 6 cents per page; color ink runs 13.7 cents per page. HP covers the 845c with a very short 90-day warranty.
HP includes a great online manual. The 845c supports USB only.
Despite its slow printing speeds, HP's Deskjet 845c provides top-notch graphics quality for the money.

Buying Information

HP Deskjet 845c Color Inkjet Printer Rated 8-ppm monochrome/5-ppm color, 600-by-1200-dpi maximum resolution, 100 sheets input, 50 output. $ 99 Rated 8-ppm monochrome/5-ppm color, 600-by-1200-dpi maximum resolution, 100 sheets input, 50 output. http://www.hp.com 888/999-4747