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Tossed my HP Printer - & it felt good!

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tony barnhill

tony barnhill

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Literally - I tossed it as far as I could...darn thing just wouldn't feed paper & finally made me angry...it broke into little bits & pieces....now I've gotta go set up a new printer so I can print my FEDEX labels!!
 
Did the same thing to a cordless phone once and it felt really good. Had to buy a replacement but it was still worth it.
 
LoL Tony, Good printers HP are always available at Best Buy or Office Depot for under a 100 bucks. I even have three of them, never seem to quit. Must admit that one is used only as a copying machine though. Not even hooked up to the computer. Works great for home stuff.
 
I've been through more HPs than I should have (should have wised up after the second one). Finally got smart and bought a Lexmark X75 3 in 1 (scanner, copier and printer), and other than the high cost of ink (which they all have!!) I couldn't be happier.

PS it was as cheap as the HPs too!
 
Re: Tossed my HP Printer - & it felt good!

Well Tony, you’re not alone.
break.com
 
I had a bunch of junkie HP and Cannon printers....scraped them all and got a cheap Lexmark(on sale at Wal-Mart - $32) and it's been great. I've also got a Lexmark 3 in 1(i think....Model X5250) that my neighbour gave to me when he bought a new system. But I haven't used it, or bought ink for it.
 
I remember that video! :lol:

I've had relatively decent luck with HP printers. Only on my second one in 10 years. The first one was a Deskjet 682c that lasted me nearly 7 years, and went through a house fire. All I had to do after the fire was clean it up, install new ink and it continued working.

My "new" Deskjet, however, is a 950(?) that was purchased at Costco. When it works, it works great. However, I have an occasional paper feed problem where the paper gets caught in the roller and the ink heads grind across part of the feed mechanism. Thankfully, I don't use it often. So, the feed problem doesn't rear its ugly head often enough to make me wanna break stuff.
 
Unfortunately, I didn't have a machine gun or I would've done the same!
 
I had an HP Deskjet 500 B&W printer, back when they were something like $600. That sucker just kept going and going.

Replaced the 500 with a Deskjet 950c maybe 5 years ago. It does have some design flaws that indicate it was intended as a throw-away though. The only paper-feed problems I've had were with envelopes. The print-head can jam if the envelope curls up, so I curl the envelopes the other way a little before loading them. Seems to have solved that problem, I hope.

I added an Epson R1800 as my specialty/photo printer. I'm really impressed with it. I do my click-and-ship labels on it, just because the inks are more water resistant than the HP's. If the other Epsons are anything like this one I'd be inclined to look closely at one.
 
HP hardware is ok, not great but not bad either. Their software however is complete garbage. It always has been. And if you need to replace the software for your device, they charge you for a CD. I have bought my last piece of HP equipment. Lexmark is good, and personally I love Epson printers.
 
I hate all inkjet printers!!!

Go laser.
 
I had an HP MFC (Multi Function Printer print, copy, scan & fax) about a year ago that was nothing but trouble for me so I tossed it. This time I got a Brother MFP printer. While it printed much better than the HP – I swear it had to be the slowest printer in the world. If for some reason you ever ran out of paper, got low on ink, canceled or interrupted the printing - it'd take a half an hour to right itself.

Yup! I un-ceremoniously dispatched that one too and am now looking for a replacement.
 
IMO

If you do not have a strong need for color printing, get a cheap laser. If you have strong need for color printing... get a color laser.

If you need to print photo quality stuff, then use an online photo service.
 
So, right now, I'm sitting at my office in the GarageMahal - new computer is on-line...next is finishing the hard wire so I can use the new printer (dammit! another HP - this time an HP Officejet 431v5 Aii-in-One) & finish the network so any computer in the house (upstairs in my office, laptop, out in the GarageMahal) can print to it....we'll see....
 
I have a similar setup Tony. I have an HP Officejet d135 with a network adapter. It connects to the network as a completely self-sufficient device. It's a bit of a pain to configure but it does work. Unfortunately the software is garbage as usual. The printer itself has proven adequate, no more no less.

By the way, you can access the device wirelessly as well so long as it is hard wired to a router.
 
Re: Tossed my HP Printer - & it felt good!

Bret said:
If for some reason you ever ran out of paper, got low on ink, canceled or interrupted the printing - it'd take a half an hour to right itself.
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I've never seen an MFP that was worthwhile. We had one at work years ago that we used as a standalone color copier, but it really wasn't that great a scanner or printer by itself...that was years ago, I hope they got better!
 
I have an old Epson 1270 that I used when I needed to do prints of basic graphs and illustrations and such. However, it was never very good at photos.
 
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