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I have never seen anyone have good things to say about consumer grade printers. Even when recommending printers, it's a matter of arguing why something is less

by lithos 5y ago

I have never seen anyone have good things to say about consumer grade printers. Even when recommending printers, it's a matter of arguing why something is less worse than the others. Printer's and copiers are probably older than computers (or at least civilian computers), and the industry as a whole has yet to find even something as a reasonable/useable/ergonomic user interface for their product. Literally a product type that has been around longer than most of their customers and users, and the manufacturers have yet to make a useable user interface. Even simple things like the cancel job button are unreliable/laggy/obnoxious to use or even find.

throwanem 5y ago
I have a Laserjet M203DW and it's brilliant for documents and book blocks. I also have an Officejet 8610 which works well enough and, thanks to Instant Ink's per-page pricing model that doesn't cost any more no matter how much ink you use, makes a nice little more-or-less free photo printer - you end up just paying for the printer (which I got used anyway), the paper, and $3 a month for all the ink you can eat. There, now you've seen someone have good things to say about consumer grade printers. :) They really don't suck any more like they used to 10 or 20 or 30 years ago!