My wife is running this charitable organization ‘Dormagener Tafel’, and I try to help sometimes, like carrying boxes, or setting up the computer, web-site, and maintaining it.

They still needed a printer for the office, with key characteristic: color (their letterhead is in orange), photo printing not needed, cheap, cheap ink costs, good text quality, low maintenance, fast... After some browsing I bought the Canon Pixus IP4200. These days it seems to be impossible to get a printer who is not able to do ‘photo quality’ printing. The printer is designed well, still small, can manage two different paper feeds, duplex printing, CD printing, etc.—and on top of all that, reasonable cheap, and individual printer cartridges for each color. Now I’m really jealous …

Installation was a breeze, finally an installation program which only lets you install the needed drivers without default-installation of all the other fancy software you need for photo printing, etc., but you in real life will never touch. The drivers look stable, well designed from the configuration possibilities, and text look amazingly sharp (didn’t try any photo prints). If this printer is still running strong in a couple of month, I might switch away from HP as the standard text printer for my home office...