Hi Rose,
I find that especially with multi-function printer/scanner units you will get what you pay for. If you spend $100 or less you will get a throw-away product, at least this has been my experience. I bought an HP C310A All-In-One printer a few years ago which at the time was one of a fairly limited list of Airprint enabled printers and it was $110. I hardly ever used it and one day when I wanted to print something it wouldn’t pull in the paper any more. I had a sighted friend help me trouble shoot it and no matter what we did it just on’t pull in the paper. It starts up and you expect any second the paper will go in, but then after it goes on for a while it stops and gives you some sort of error. If you only scan occasionally and your scanner still works, I would seriously consider buying just a little black and white laser printer. You can get them for around $100 or $120 with Airprint and all that and chances are it will still print in 10 years. I have an HP Laserjet 1012 which is probably about that old and while it’s USB only, it just goes and goes. Furthermore a toner cartridge lasts forever and if you print very infrequently even the inkjet printers of today are a problem as the ink may dry up. A laser printer uses toner which is a powder which during the print process is heated up and therefore it can never dry up. First of all you have to answer the question whether you are looking mostly for a document printer or a photoprinter. If you want a document printer then do you need colour? A simple black and white laserprinter is the cheapest as far as cost per page and return on investment as it will most likely last and not give you any troubles for years to come. You can even get good colour laserjet printers for less than $200 and it’s just a matter of sorting through the large offering to see which ones support Airprint which many of them do. But colour laser printers if you do have to replace the cartridge are relatively expensive even though in the long run the cost per page is less than for an inkjet printer. Also keep in mind that while you may be able to do basic stuff like print and scan from the computer, a lot of today’s all-in-one printers have all sorts of touchpad panels to control and setup the thing. If you buy online you may end up getting a printer which might be difficult to use in terms of making even simple selections. On a basic black and white laserprinter you mostly have a power button and not a lot more. I have bought a lot of printers in my life and while I used to buy expensive printers under the assumption that quality costs money, that is not necessarily the case any more and you can get something in the mid price range which for a colour laserjet printer is $180 to $300 and for a black and white laserjet printer is $100 to $150. My last colour laserjet which I bought for my business back in 2007 was $1,500 at the time and if I have to replace all 3 colour cartridges and the black and white cartridge it sets me back $800 if I buy original HP cartridges. But these cartridges print 6,000 pages and last me about 3 or 4 years. Nowadays I could buy an equivalent printer for around $400 to $500 and as much as I hate it, even at that price it’s almost cheaper to buy a new printer rather than to spend $500 to replace all the cartridges. I have been buying third-party cartridges the last few times and they seem to work just as good at literally 20% or so of the price of original HP cartridges. Regards, Sieghard From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rose Combs Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 4:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Printer As I understand it, it needs to be air print enabled, found a ton on Amazon, so many that deciding which one I may buy is a challenge, moderate use of scanner, occasional use of printer. My two-year-old HP seems not to be working, it scans most of the time but getting it to print takes literally 30 minutes or more mucking around in control panel, then it may or may not work. I want something that will last more than a year that will meet my needs, I don’t need to print every day but in the past two months have needed to at least 10 times, four of which I finally gave up and e-mailed to my boss, or a cousin who has a printer that works, not really acceptable in my humble opinion. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Hudson Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014 7:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Printer Hello, you just need to make sure there is a wireless printer. In order for it to print with your iPhone. On Nov 10, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Rose Combs <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: I may need a new printer/scanner, What do I need to look for to be able to print from an iPhone 6, I see lots of wireless printers but am not sure what would work with everything. My HP seems to be on strike, it works only when it wants to work and recently not at all. <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. 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