By Desire Athow
When we reviewed the HP DeskJet 3720 All-in-One Printer a couple of weeks ago, there was a paragraph at the very end saying that HP’s claim of selling the smallest all-in-one printer applies only for products costing less than 223 Euros (around £190, $250, AU$325).
It is not by any means the smallest multi-function printer around. That medal goes to a little known US printer manufacturer called Primera Technology with a product called the Primera Trio.
As for the price of the Trio, the cheapest we could get it for was £319 on Amazon (around $420, AU$560) and that doesn’t even include a charger (not that you need one – more on that later).
The consumables are also not what we’d call affordable. A pair of high capacity ink cartridges (black and colour) will set you back just under £100 (around $130, AU$175) and will deliver less than 1,000 combined pages in draft mode, equating to a cost of printing of around 10p per sheet.
That’s partly because the printer and the head are part of the same module, like HP, but unlike Epson.
However, this is no ordinary printer and certainly …read more
Source:: techradar.com – PC and Mac