Brother® MFC-J430w Inkjet All-in-One
$99.99 at Staples
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I have had best luck with Epson.
If you print a LOT, I would recommend laser over inkjet as a general principle.
Avoid Canon.
I checked out Consumer reports and decided on HP.
It “mostly” is a print spooler’ issue, which resolves it. Go to your Administrative Tools (or services menu and applications), find Services’, find the Print Spooler option and disable,enable or restart the process under the Print Spooler option.
My HP officejet pro has run perfectly for years.
Two Words:
Laser Printer.
More words: Get a B/W printer - get a color printer. Get what ya like. Just get a laser printer and not one of those cartridge printers. And get a Brother model.
I have always had HP. They are the best IMO. Never had even the slightest trouble with them and I used to print a boatload of docs for my business.
Have you ever updated your printer driver? That might help with the ink cartridge issue but not the paper feeding problem. Paper quality could be an issue?
go to hp.com and look up your printer model
If you get another scan/print/copy/fax printer make sure it has a feeder so you can can scan/copy multipe pages at once without having to scan each page on the flatbed one at a time. It doesn’t really cost any more and I don’t understand why every model doesn’t have one but at least half the ones on the market don’t have a feeder.
Use anything other than HP. Their business model is to screw their customers with the price of ink.
I love my Lexmark, although it has quirks sometimes. Lexmark is much cheaper on ink and does a fine job.
My other priners are HP and are quirky, at best.
My big shock is finding out that you cannot have a printer repaired any more. People treat them as disposable.
Brother® MFC-J430w Inkjet All-in-One
$99.99 at Staples
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We just got an Epson WF-3540. It scans, copies, does beautiful photos. Does not ask for new ink all the time. We print a lot of flyers for my music group, lots of photos - my husband is a terrific photog. We love it.
I have bought 2 epsons, Artisan 810 and an 845. The 810 has a plastic paper tray that jams and sticks and is now broken. The 845 won’t stay hooked up wireless to the computer. Someone mentioned Brother so that might be my next choice. I will also check out HP. My other HP’s lasted a long time. As far as I am concerned I will not purchase another Epson.
Good luck
Your “but most of all” comment SHOULD be “The ink doesn’t cost more than the printer!” LOL Research ink costs prior to purchasing printer!
It depends upon your volume and your color / monochrome requirements.
If like me (and that is an assumption) 95% of your req’ments are black and white and you don’t need outrageous speed and only modest volume, I am absolutely in love with my Brother monochrome laser printer. On sale these things are $50-$75. The cartridges are $22 each on ebay if you buy pairs. They come with a “starter” cartridge only good for maybe 1K pages, the real ones are good for over 2K pages. Stupid cheap, bulletproof printer. If you need color, I have no reco for you, but the notion is that using your cheap mono laser printer for most of your work saves the expensive printer (and carts) for color work.
Mine is an HL-2140, I think the newer ones are HL-2170. Bulletproof. And if it breaks, you cannot service it for the amount a new one costs so that decision is simple. I have had this for four years with zero problems.
Brother mono laser. Unbeatable for simple, straight ahead b/w work.
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They all cost an arm and a leg for cartridges.