Also, it can't be an HP. I will never buy one of those worthless pieces of $#@! again.
P.S. Thanks for the link, James!
UPDATE: After adding the P.S. above...
Sometimes I think the internet is making fun of me.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Info bleg
Can anyone recommend a decent printer/scanner that has reliable cartridges that will work as they actually should and not constantly stop working for no good reason?
Also, it can't be an HP. I will never buy one of those worthless pieces of $#@! again.
P.S. Thanks for the link, James!
UPDATE: After adding the P.S. above...
Sometimes I think the internet is making fun of me.
Also, it can't be an HP. I will never buy one of those worthless pieces of $#@! again.
P.S. Thanks for the link, James!
UPDATE: After adding the P.S. above...
Sometimes I think the internet is making fun of me.
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I have a Dell all-in-one that has held up for about six or seven years with not problems. I'm not particularly attached to the Dell brand, but this one has been pretty good.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as you start combining printers and scanners, from my experience you get a shitty version of each. If I were you id buy a low cost laser printer, and a separate scanner. Both of my HP ones have been working perfectly for the last 10 years so I am not really up on any new models to recommend to you.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I could keep the old one to use only as a scanner--it works okay for that. I just need a new printer. No matter what factory or aftermarket brand of cartridge I've tried, one of them always craps out after a month or so, and when the cartridge goes, the whole thing is dead. Right now I have an old black ink cartridge that's empty in it just so I can use it as a scanner and print stuff with the color cartridge. The "refurbished" black cartridge that I bought about a month ago just up and died today.
ReplyDeleteGot it from Inksell.com, btw.
Oh yeah, and I put off buying any cartridges until just recently because I KNEW this would happen. I was just hoping it would last long enough to print my tax forms. I'll just have to print them using the color cartridge to print "black" text.
ReplyDeleteunless you absolutely HAVE to have color, go with a black laser printer. much lower cost per page. in fact, some color lasers are down in the $300 range, worth a look if color is mandatory.
ReplyDeleteThe major problem with inkjet printers is the cartridges. They're very temperemental, even when treated well.
ReplyDeleteYou can get a cheap laser printer for not much over $100 that should suit your needs pretty well.
As for printing color, unless you print a lot, I'd recomend just going to Kinko's for printing color.
Otherwise, I've usually had decent luck with Epson color ink printers.
And usually getting one of the all-in-one type units is a bad deal, unless they pay you to take it.
Thanks, everyone. I'll definitely be looking for a black-only laser printer. I almost never really HAD to print anything in color, anyway.
ReplyDeleteI have accepted the fact that printers suck and won't last long. So, I actually have a new Epson scanner/printer/fax combo deal that I paid $69.00 sitting on my desk. I purchased it specifically because it used the same cartridges that I had leftover from the last piece of crap Epson. And, I have a second one still in the box sitting in the closet that I got on sale for $39.00 just waiting for this one to crap out.
ReplyDeleteI have accepted defeat in the printer game. I'm not proud of it.
Dave: Yeah, sometimes I miss my Star NX-1000 dot matrix printer. The first one I ever had, and it ALWAYS worked.
ReplyDeleteI have a brother 1040 laser printer. It works superbly.
ReplyDeleteNo color though. Has been boringly reliable. I think I paid 200 bucks.
I've had good luck using the Brothers line from back when they used full-width ribbons for printing. Currently I'm using their MFC-490CW which replaced an h/p that cost over $200.00 and stopped working after about six months and less then 100 printed pages. NEVER buy another h/p POS again.
ReplyDeleteI'll second the Brother laser printer. I have an HL-2040 that I've use about four times a year for the past 3 years (and I was deployed to Afghanistan for one of those years) and I'm still on the original cartridge. Laser toner cartridges don't dry out.
ReplyDeleteI'm on my third Epson all-in-one. What I found out is, when you're not using it, TURN IT OFF. The first two went 11 and 13 months respectively. I left them on pretty much all the time. This one has gone over two years and still works. Unfortunately, it burns a lot of ink because I have to clean the heads fairly often (and ink - literally - costs more per oz. than gold. Well, maybe not NOW.) But it is still working. It's a photo-quality printer and a 1200 DPI capable color scanner. I'm pretty happy with it.
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