Stay away from this printer! Infact, do not buy any HP, Lexmark, or Brother printers! Endless paper jamming, small costly ink cartridges that go empty every month... and the software is crappety-do. Some good use can come from these things: I'll probably tear this apart and use the shell to create a birdhouse for the winter. (and as DTN suggested, attack my neighbors with the cord).

Canon or Epson are the best. I've used them frequently before and they're nothing short of pleasurable.

 

thats odd, Ive never had a problem with my hp printer, then again, I don't use it that often.

 

I have an Epson cx4800(all in one) my friend gave me for free (he was updating the Connecticut DOT and they were getting rid of them) and its pretty good. I also have an HP cheapy printer sitting on the same desk and I never really had any problems with either.

Now Lexmark on the other hand...whoooa. My mom's Lexmark 4 in 1 sucks, a few of my friends Lexmark printers...suck. They never want to work right and they are just cheaply made.

But now that I think of it the printer that I use at work is an HP 1022n LaserJet and it decides randomly that it doesn't like its current IP address and changes it, and it also likes to print random characters sometimes....firmware I just put on it is suppose to fix it...but who knows. Also the printer my mom used to have was the predecessor of the one HKC listed. It stopped working but I think it was because it was getting old.

 

HP laserjet 4 FTW

I told myself I'd never buy another inkjet for color.

EVER. I'm living without color printing and I prefer it by leaps & bounds over dealing with inkjets.

dye-sub or some other dry tech, before inkjets.

 

^good point. very expensive printers, but you can probably use the hell out of them. i'll think about something more professional next time. i mean this is absurd. talk about a bad buy.

Daafisch, no printer should stop working! I have a macintosh printer from like 1995. That thing still printed really good when I hooked it up the last time. But that's Mac, they made great things back then as they do now (and if anyone says Macs are worse than before, it's because back then they were simple and today you cannot compare the technology because so many things are going on inside of today's computers from running all kinds of programs simultaneously, drives, storage, cards, processors, video/sound cards, fiberoptik, internet modems, drives, you name it)

printers on the other hand, haven't changed all that much! they do the same thing they did 10, 15 years ago so i don't know what the big deal is here!!!

 

Printers have come a LONG way since then.

eBay is your source if you want something a little higher-end.
Find a "new" one from a seller with a lot of good feedback and look for 1/3 to 1/4 of retail. Shipping will be high on a big printer.

 

Cartridges suck! Toner, ftw!

 

I got a HP C4240

SLOWWWWW, and the ink alignment will not go back to orginal.

Always doubled letters on the first 1/8" on page

I also have a 1995 OKIDATA microline 320 turbo, that will print just the same speed but better overall reading ability

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (HyundaiKitCoupe @ Oct 24 2008, 08:03 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Daafisch, no printer should stop working!</div>

Well ink can clog the heads. The gears could break. True they shouldn't stop working but nothing lasts forever

 

Not according to DeBeers!