What is your favorite Printer?

Hyper99

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Mine is HP932C
Work very well and print beautifully
no complaint about ink cause I do the refill myself and it easy as 1-2-3.

 

steelthorn

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I have a HP 2000C and it's the best printer I've ever had. It's very quiet and doesn't move alot when it prints. I hate Epsons, they are noisy and jerky. My 2000C has four color cartridges. Very easy to replace them. Plus the printer itself looks very cool and modern.
 

Bleeding Jawa

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My favorite is the HP930 that i got for free. I haven't even taken it out of the box yet, but you HAVE TO like stuff that's free!!! :D
 

403Forbidden

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mine is tektronix
color are good and print too
cost money alot though
but for quality, there is compare nobody
 

Digobick

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Definately the Xerox DC12. I just set up one of these at my work a couple weeks ago and the printouts look incredible. Of course I'm talking about a $200,000 laser color copier/scanner/printer, but man....such quality! :)

Otherwise I'd definately vote for HP. My 2000c has always worked beautifully, and I've printed out well over 6,000 pages on it. If I was buying a new printer for a home user, I'd probably go with either the HP 970Cse (automatic 2-sided printing, 2400 x 1200 dpi, $399) or the HP 1220Cse (13" x 19" paper handling, 2400 x 1200 dpi, $499). Can't go wrong with HP.
 

Rankor

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(Still) running an HP DeskJet 500 bought back in 1994 for $400 US.

No problems.

Did buy a refurbed Canon BJC 2000 about 6 months but that was only for $39 US.

Next major purchase is gonna be an HP LaserJet.

 

Hyper99

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Oh a week ago, I thought I try to save ink by putting my 932c away and used a relative's canon 3000 printer that has the seperate color tank which they try to lure you into buying one when I was at best buy picking out which printer to buy.

I finally got this sucker to test out and to my disappointment
this thing shake my whole desk as if someone is doing XXX
My desk, monitor, and case is all shaking like a volcanic eruption.
It was slow and took like 5 min to print out a full color picture,
my HP can do this in 1 1/2 min
the quality was horrible, had streak all over look like somebody manually use their hand to move the print head left and right.
Cons: slow and bad quality
Pros: None whatsoever
 

slpaulson

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My epson stylus 800 is a pain in the ass. Slow and noisy. It always does this damn cleaning itself every so often which takes a few extra minutes too.
 

John

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I have the 932c and it is does a remarkable job.

HP cartridges are expensive.

Exactly, that's why they can sell the printers so damn cheap !
 

Tripleshot

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HP 4500 works great color lazer.Thats at work.At my home office HPR80 multi.It does everything and it does it well and fast.
 

RossGr

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I have a HP722, great printer. Yes the cartriges are expensive. I would never refill one, the cartridge is the heart of the print quality if you refill you run the risk of losing that, is it worth it?. There is a shelf life on them for a reason. But what do I know, I only build the things.
 

Kitros

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What about te all in one printer/fax/scanner/copiers? What's the best for the best price?
 

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I remember like year ago I bought a epson printer and it LEAKED ink like crazy on regular text prints and we took it back TWO TIMES and each one had the same defect. Anyone else have this problem with the epsons?
 

boomerang

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If anyone here belongs to Sam's Club, that is the cheapest place I have found to buy print cartridges locally.

They carry HP, Epson and Canon. But not every different cartridge. They don't have them for the latest models.
 

Digobick

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What about the all in one printer/fax/scanner/copiers? What's the best for the best price? >>

Well if you want all that done in color your best bet would be the HP T45; awesome print quality, very nice scan quality, and HP reliability. But it's somewhat pricey at $399; however, Buy.com has it for $336.95.