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A Reason NOT to buy HP Printer - Any SUggestions?

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Real Estate Broker/Owner

I have several printers in m home office.  One is wireless to use with my MAC. One is a combo printer and fax to use with my old DELL and if I still need to fax something which is happening less and less. One is a HP printer I bought for $150.00 because I wanted to just do black and white printing and try to cut the costs of that INK.

This cheap little printer that supposed to save me money has been driving me crazy.  Each cartridge prints maybe 30 pages and then a pop up screen comes up that the ink is low and I should buy more cartrides on line.  I can't get rid of that pop up screen no way no how.  I can't continue to work and change the cartridge later it won't let me.

Truly annoying.  If anyone knows of a better printer for just doing black and white printing that isn't a HP please let me know.

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Chip Jefferson
Advanced Building LLC - Lexington, SC

Walgreen's refills are 8-10.00 for starters. I only buy Lexmark. It will print alot of paper on one cartridge.

Combine the technology and spend 300-400. Be careful of laser printers, they put off a fine dust that may be harmful. So inkjet is my choice!

May 22, 2008 11:17 PM
Karen Rice Keller Williams Real Est
Keller Williams Real Estate - Hawley, PA
Northeast PA & Lake Wallenpaupack Home Sales

 

I have found that black ink costs just about the same as color.  Used to be cheaper to do black only but not anymore.

I wouldn't call a $150 printer cheap - though I know they get much more pricey than that.  That said, I've never liked HP printers.

 

May 22, 2008 11:18 PM
Gregory Lohr
West Columbia, SC

I just bought a HP all-in-one printer.  I don't like mine either.  Prior to that I had a Canon Printer and I loved it.  I bought one of the low cost printers with multiple ink cartridges since I use a lot of one color, and then of another for various printing projects.  Black printing was faster on the Canon than other printers I've used and I got a lot of pages from it.

May 22, 2008 11:48 PM
Charlie Ragonesi
AllMountainRealty.com - Big Canoe, GA
Homes - Big Canoe, Jasper, North Georgia Pros

i USE LEXMARK AND HAVE HAD THIS PRINTER FOR 5 YEARS. iT PRINTS SCANS, COPIES AND FAXES

May 23, 2008 12:11 AM
Shaun Wren
AGENTFORLIFE - Lakeland, FL

Walgreens  is the way to go. Just keep an extra cartridge handy.

May 23, 2008 12:13 AM
Ricardo Bueno
Diverse Solutions - Los Angeles, CA

Miriam: You and I are on a similar quest! In addition to applications I print out, I tend to print blog posts that I care to read but don't have time to if I'm getting ready to head out the door. It sounds silly to do it but what can I say? I guess I like to read! :D I try to limit my printing but sheesh just when I need to print something important it seems I'm all out of ink (and that happens more and more often).

If only the intervals were a lot longer in length (or cartridges were cheaper) I'd have less to complain about :-/

May 25, 2008 10:03 PM
Maximiliano "Max" Carrillo
AMor REALTY / North Carolina - Charlotte Metro - South Carol - Charlotte, NC
CRS GRI

Canon is my choice of printer brands.  Their drivers let me print large amounts of brochures in a booklet 4 per page and even when I print in the draft mode the copies come out very clear.

Jul 09, 2008 01:26 PM