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To: knarf

I never had much luck with inkjets.

My first was a Cannon for home use. Since I didn’t print much, the nozzles dried. Even putting in new cartridges didn’t help. It became a piece of junk.

My next piece of junk inkjet was a Lexmark. I printed about 20 sheets and it jammed up, wouldn’t feed paper at all. It only had a 60 day warranty and was just passed the warranty period. It went in the trash.

Next, I found a Minolta b/w laser. Never had a problem. Any time I wanted to print, it was ready in a few seconds. Regrettably, when I went to Win 7 64-bit, no one made a driver for it.

About 6 years ago, I ran across a Xerox color laser (Cyber Monday bargain) for $150 including shipping. It still runs and has never caused a problem. I am still on the original toner cartridges, althought I did recently purchase some new ones just to have them on hand.

I would recommend spending a bit more and getting a good color laser. They are not that expensive any more. I see several brands available in the $100-$200 range around Black Friday/Cyber Monday.


23 posted on 10/12/2013 10:55:43 AM PDT by TomGuy (.)
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To: TomGuy

I got tired of paying a fortune in ink costs for various HP printers and picked up a Brother mfc-5895CW. This printer has the printing heads internal to the printer. Ink cartridges are super cheap on ebay and they seem to last forever. I have four kids and they print a lot of stuff, so this printer has really saved us a ton of money. The printer is a bit old, but I think Amazon still sells them.


26 posted on 10/12/2013 11:18:27 AM PDT by ThunderStruck94
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