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I would pay for a good printer. I bought the most expensive HP consumer printer (which was not very expensive at all really). It never works when I need it. Doe
by rejschaap 13y ago
I would pay for a good printer. I bought the most expensive HP consumer printer (which was not very expensive at all really). It never works when I need it. Doesn't connect to my wifi network 90% of the time. It's bug ridden as well, crashes all the time with the weirdest error messages. The only way to fix wifi or crash is a reboot, which is annoying and takes forever. It refuses to print black and white when it's out of magenta. And it's pretty much always out of something, apparently you can get about 5 prints from one cartridge. It also constantly nags you about low ink levels, worsened by the impossible user interface. I don't even want to talk about the included software and drivers. The scanner has a mind of its own and there is no convincing it to use the flatbed scanner when it has decided you want to use the feeder. I always end up at the local copy shop.
- Sanddancer 13y agoGet a laser printer. Period, end of statement. Spend at least a few hundred dollars on it, it'll last you a decade and a half, and it'll have much better drivers than the jokes that inkjet printers come with. Plus, you'll get supplies that won't go bad if you only print every month or two. Inkjets are just complete and utter crap.
- greyskull 13y agoWe have an OfficeJet. The color ran out a year or two ago, and I haven't found a need to replace them; I just print B&W. The only reason I didn't switch is because I couldn't find a multi-function laser printer (I need a scanner and the auto feeder) though admittedly I barely looked. It seems there are more options now (well rated Brother on Amazon), so that's my next buy once the black runs out. Screw ink printers, never again.
- frou_dh 13y agoAgreed. A basic laser model was a revelation to me that is possible to buy a cheap home printer that isn't destruction-baiting garbage.
- maxerickson 13y agoI have a $100 Brother laser printer that has been pretty fine for light duty for ~ 5 years so far (but that's at a print rate where I am still using the starter toner that came with it, with tape over the window). Wifi/Network too.
- welly 13y agoIt depends on what job the printer is for. Printing photographs? I'd use a laser printer as much as I'd use a dot matrix printer. High end inkjet printers are simply unbeatable for printing images. Documents? Laser every time.
- bluedino 13y agoHP 4200 on eBay for less than a hundred bucks USD with just 20-30,000 page count is easy to find and will last a good long time.