New printer, any suggestions?

[RESmonkey]

I'm running an ancient HP Deskjet 612C that barely prints. It's slown down, makes horribly loud noices, and won't print in color.

Any recommendations for printers?

 

[Retrospekt]

I have one in my for sale thread. I will split up the bundle. Give me an offer.

By the way is the HP Photosmart 7760. PcMag's editors choice.

 

[Pardus]

canon printers work well for me

 

[shortylickens]

Whaddaya wanna do wit it?

Do you want just general purpose, cheap, home color printing?
Do you want to make a long-lasting photo album for the years to come?
Do you want to print out a couple hundred pages a day, color irrelevant?

What?

 

[erwos]

Yes, your needs are definitely a big thing here.

Personally, I like networked printers, but I'm not sure what your price range is - you're generally at $150 for one of those.

 

[Zepper]

If you can take mediocre printed output, perhaps one of the current generation Brother AIOs as they are the least hassle for now - unchipped, passive, separate ink tanks. For top quality output, but with chipped tank hassles, then the Canon iP4300 would be hard to beat. More new Canon models should be out shortly - it seems that every time I go to the Canon site lately there is something new there. It looks like the iP4300 will be replaced as I only find them at a few locations using froogle or pricegrabber. Frys.com has some refurbs and eBay has some at good prices.

.bh.

 

[Rottie]

Originally posted by: ActiveX
canon printers work well for me

:beer:

 

[Blain]

I print on CDs & DVDs, so it's an Epson model for me. Besides printing on media, the ink refills are cheap off of ebay.

 

[Zepper]

You can mod the US version of the 4300 to print disks - one of the parts are listed with the printers on eBay. the euro versions come with it as standard - some kind of patent issue here.

.bh.

 

[bruceb]

True about the mod ... I had researched it a while back

I just found the link for the mod:

Link to Mod

But nowadays, why not go Lightscribe ? ? Sony has an IDE unit fthe DRU835A for about $80 that does almost everything
including dvd ... not sure if the Lightscribe is in Color or not