On 07/22/2011 05:37 PM, Alex Stanley wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "whynotnow7"<whynotnow7@...> wrote: >> When you need to replace that HP printer, you may want to go with >> the Brother brand. I had three HP printers, each one worse that >> the last. > > I've owned exactly two printers in the 18 years that I've been a computer > user, both HP. The first was their portable inkjet, and since I do very > little printing, the printer would sit there getting all gunked up, and it > would never work right when I'd go to use it. I swore that I would never > again own a printer that uses liquid ink. In 1998, I bought a LaserJet 6L, > and it has been working flawlessly ever since. With the demise of parallel > printer ports, I had to get a USB adapter so I could use it with my current > machine. What's great is that Windows supports it natively, no drivers > needed, because HP is notorious for making bloatware printer drivers. > > Petra has two printers, a small Samsung monochrome laser printer that kicks > ass, and a color, all-in-one, fax/scanner/copier/printer from HP that a > friend gave her, and IMO, it is a whoreanus piece of crap.
In 1989 I bought an NEC laser printer probably for $1800. Never ran out of toner while I used it. I needed faster output for printing source code. My current printer is an HP Photosmart Plus wifi printer. I went with HP because they've always support Linux, probably because they sold Linux servers. Thing runs like a Model T. And yup, eats ink or times out when they want you to buy ink again. It didn't like a third party black cartridge and refuses to tell me the level. A year later wifi printers were half the price. And I don't do much printing anymore either but it is annoying when I go to do one of my custom birthday cards for a relative and one of the cartridges is dry. With the wifi I don't need a host computer and it will even print from my Android devices. The ink thing reminds me of my refrigerator. I don't drink the water from it all that often nor use ice that much but 6 months after I put in a filter the light says time to change it. I don't until I taste the chlorine. There is no sensor to tell how well it is filtering just a timer.
