BURTON Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Have been looking at NEC DVDR drives, for backing up my data of pics etc on my pc. Also would like to print off some photos, so need a good printer which takes cheapish toner/ink. Can anyone recomend anything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Have read a few reviews that highly reccomend a Plextor DVD writer, very fast extra and miles ahead of everything else apparently. On the printer front I normally go for HP and they have never let me down. However Cannon Pixma's seem to be winning all the reviews at the moment. They can also print directly onto CDs which might be useful if you are back things up regularly and create a label. You need the right CDs but its tempting for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted February 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Just looked at the prices. They are abit more then the others. I have a CDR drive that is Plextor, but I had heard of good things about the NEC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Don't think any are bad these days. The NEC are certainly a lot cheaper. It depends on how much you want that little bit of extra speed. I haven't had a CD or CDR fail once don't know about anyone else. If the NEC does all you need get that. I haven't looked into it that much yet. Just that is this article they seem to be dribbling about the Plextor, a lot of builders are using it as their top line choice in the configs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BURTON Posted February 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 Just that I want to get 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waylander Posted February 18, 2005 Report Share Posted February 18, 2005 lots of people [particularly those that build "safe" rigs eg for the NHS] only use plextor for its old rep. The NEC 3520 is very well rated in geek mags and forums and very fast too as is the similar Pioneer 109. Personally i am going for the NEC3520. Bang for buck, your best printer will be a canon [its new pixmar range or the old i560/i865 if yo can get them]. the i865 is £120ish and is superb..i have the i560 and print quality is excellent; cheapest inks compared to epsom/HP and thats not even counting generics: replaed the ink recently in 2 printers [black and colour] with generics for £5! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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