Favourite Printer?

Favourite brand of printers?

  • HP

    Votes: 12 48.0%

  • Canons

    Votes: 3 12.0%

  • Samsung

    Votes: 1 4.0%

  • Epson

    Votes: 7 28.0%

  • Lexmark

    Votes: 2 8.0%

  • Kodak

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • other

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    25
ChrisDVD

ChrisDVD

New Member
Hello
Just wanted to know what people think.
Whats your favourite brand of printer
HP? Canons? Samsung? Espon? Lexmark? kodak?

Chris
 
I had an old HP that I used for five years. I tried a Canon (beautiful output!) for two months before discovering that it will cost me around four times as much to keep running (=ink) as the old HP. So I went back to it. It's slow, but at least I can afford to keep it running!
Tom
 
Never had any problems with Lexmark.

However, I've never used anything else, so I guess my response is somewhat biased.. :P
 
I had an old HP that I used for five years. I tried a Canon (beautiful output!) for two months before discovering that it will cost me around four times as much to keep running (=ink) as the old HP. So I went back to it. It's slow, but at least I can afford to keep it running!
Tom
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Wow! I had the exact opposite problem. Brought a brand new HP to replace a Canon S400. As it turned out, although the HP printing quality was excellent, it was going through ink like nothing I have ever seen before! I had to swap back to the Canon to keep costs down! :D
 
Those old Canons are as cheap as dirt to run, especially the ones with the separate color tanks! Ink carts for new Canon and HP printers have a hideously small amount of ink in them; I've seen page yields as low as 40 pages for just one cartridge. That's simply obscene, given the prices they want for them!
Tom
 
OvenMaster said:
Those old Canons are as cheap as dirt to run, especially the ones with the separate color tanks! Ink carts for new Canon and HP printers have a hideously small amount of ink in them; I've seen page yields as low as 40 pages for just one cartridge. That's simply obscene, given the prices they want for them!
Tom
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Thats what i LOVE about my Canon - the individual ink tanks! I was looking at the new HP "Pictbridge" printers for direct, instant digital photo printing. I worked it out to be upwards of $0.80 (AU) per print, when i can get them done at the local department store at a better quality for $0.15AU within an hour.

I think both Canon and HP have to really rethink their product lines!
 
I love my HP printer but the ink was just too expensive so we bought a new Epson one (the cost of the new printer + ink was less than the new ink for HP ;) ). But I think my Epson printer is crap. It prints REAL slow, the colors aren't as bright and "lively", and now it has horizontal banding! Well, not much to be expected from a cheapo printer, I guess.

I want my HP printer back!!!
 
Epson

for days, they are well cheap to run aswell, in the uk especially ive found. £6 a refill in my book, not bad!!! :D
 
It's Epson, and for almost any printer these days, you HAVE to spend the money on the printer to save money on the ink. Before you guys buy a new printer take a look at the costs, and look at the Printer 101 thread that will be coming soon in this forum. :)
 
HP all the way. We had an Epson. It was really good but began giving us problems after 3 years or so. We purchased a HP Photosmart and it's been AWSOME. We've had it for about 5 years, probably more, and it's never given us any problems. Quality's much higher than the epson too...

Also, I've gotten cheaper HPs for myself, and they all are very close to the Photosmart. Definetly the best for your money if you're looking into cheaper ones.
 
i never really used any other brand than HP
hp is good as far as i used it
it was the inkjet 9300 series
 
DCIScouts said:
Before you guys buy a new printer take a look at the costs, and look at the Printer 101 thread that will be coming soon in this forum. :)
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I for one will definitely look forward to that thread! Thank you for that.
Tom
 
Canon individual ink tanks are the best out there today for low ink cost. However, the HP and Canon Tri-color cartridge units are crap (1 color goes out=throw the other 2 away.)

Epson has tried to emulate this technology, but they can’t get it right. Right now im doing part time work as a Lexmark rep in Best Buy stores (used to do Canon/HP/and Epson). Every weekend the Epson rep comes in and replaces the ink in his units b/c they are on constantly and are always cleaning the print head.

We have also come to think that the new Epson line has a time limit for their cartridge, b/c it will say its empty when its really not.

-Currently, Epson is being sued in Texas for having microchips on the bottom of ink cartridges that tell it when to shut off, based off of droplet output estimates instead of actual remaining ink.

-Lexmark as well is being sued for making claims of speed output that is completely unattainable.

-HP made the claim about 1 year ago of having 'the worlds fastest photo printer'. what they didn't say (or said in small print) was that it had to be at the lowest DPI and draft quality (=banding).
-Also, the entire line of HP ink jet printers are having their parts made to HP specifications by Canon. They haven't actually made their own printers for years.
-Hp makes more than half of their total revenue every year through ink/paper sales.


In conclusion- all printers today are plastic boxes designed to cost money through the continual purchase of consumables. The trick is to find the one that costs the least. :D
 
I have an Epson C66 and it causes me nothing but hastle. Right not the problem is that theres ink in the cyan cartridge but it dosnt print blue! How annoying! I would say HP. How i wish i kept the old printer
 
Me too HP, my gramps has a lexmark and it is so slow, and not so great fot quality.....HP's are faster. Although i never used lot's of other kinds
Chris
 
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