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My rules for printers: 1) Buy a printer if you need one, it's way cheaper than renting one. 2) Get a laser printer if you don't need color. Cheap to buy, very
by Dutchie987 3y ago
My rules for printers:
1) Buy a printer if you need one, it's way cheaper than renting one.
2) Get a laser printer if you don't need color. Cheap to buy, very cheap to run. Toner is water resistant, ink is not. Might be important if you print mailing labels. Color lasers exist but color fidelity isn't quite there yet. Sufficient for business needs, not for printing photographs.
3) Don't buy an inkjet printer if you don't use it often as the print head clogs up and getting it going again uses up an astounding amount of ink.
4) If you do use it often get one that has refillable ink bottles instead of cartridges.
5) Don't buy anything from HP. This rule is not specific about printers but a general guideline.
- SunlitCat 3y agoI am guilty of violating rule 5. To my defense, I bought my HP printer way back while a certain thing was going on worldwide and a HP one was literally the only model the store had on stock. (Yeah, I could have bought another one online, but I needed a printer asap. Still, bad planning on my side, tho.) Can't complain about it as it does it's job fine, but your points made about inkjet printers are valid.
- JKCalhoun 3y agoYeah, I went on eBay some years back and picked up a color HP laser-printer because you can get clone toner cartridges for them (that don't require you to move circuit boards over from your old cartridges or whatever). I'll do my best to keep it operational and will always buy cheap toner of course. ( I also disabled all the WiFi features.)