DON’T buy an HP!
They will absolutely take you to the cleaners on ink cost. They have rigged their machines electronically so that they will shut down if you try and use an aftermarket or refilled cartridge. And they give the cartridge an arbitrary expiration date where it will shut your printer down totally until you replace it.
I still maintain this is why Carly Fiorina can’t win an election. HP has p*ssed off 75% of the American public.
Don’t buy an Epson either. I have a friend that has one, and she is always asking me to troubleshoot it. More weird firmware issues than you can shake a stick at.
I am happy with my Canon. Durable, and the ink cost is manageable.
My 3 old printers are HP. I buy ink in a bottle and refill my cartridges. Works and saved a ton of money. Buy 8 oz for $30. Seems to last forever.
wow. thats what i was just getting ready to buy for myself. i just but an hp laser monojet for my church. hope this isn’t true.
i have had a samsung color laser jet for 9 years. supposedly i could put a new drum in it and that would take care of the problem i am having (shadow of one page on next page that prints) but i don’t want to mess with that.
samsung printers have been bought out by hp so can’t get a samsug one now
I’ve had several HP inkjets and one Epson now. I switched because of HP’s reaming me for ink. But the Epson does one PITA thing HP never did. If I skip any printing for a few days, the nozzles gum up and I must go thru PITA nozzle cleanings before I can print anything. Never again for Epson!
HP = Has Problems.
Epson has been OK.
Brother laser is a good way to go.
That depends on the model, and there is likely a way around it.
Ink printers have been like that forever...I moved to black and white laser years ago and never looked back....never had much reason to print color and when i do, the Walmart photo shop is convenient and cheap.
“And they (HP) give the cartridge an arbitrary expiration date where it will shut your printer down totally until you replace it.”
When I ordered supplies for our company, I got a great deal on HP inkjet cartridges — stocked up. One day I replaced one and it wouldn’t work because of the cartridge’s expiration date. Pissed...? Oh, yeah.
I went to the calendar/clock on my PC and set the date to a date prior to the expiration. The cartridge installed fine. Then I turned it back to the current date.