Printers....What you use?

[Mntsnow]

What Printer are you using? What do you like the most about it and what do you dislike about it? and lastly what "interface" does it use?

Currently I have a Brother MFC8300 Laser for my Fax/Main printing (black and white) (USB)

Color I use a Lexmark 3200 P-Port for regular small print jobs

for larger print jobs that need color I use a Xerox C20 using Network interface

[MRCOMPUTER]

I try not to buy printers. Seem to get quite a few in on Trade.
Printers are kind of a funny item. They can sell you a printer for next to nothing because, they will more than make their money on ink cartridges, later on...;)

[SalaTar]

HP 1175cse

[NDC]

I use a HP950c and Epson Photo 750 for home use...

[Gene C]

well, with 15 of them and a HP plotter. think I got them all covered.

as stated by mr:c the ink is what gets you. unless you did like I did and bout the inkjets when they first came out at close to 800. +++

I'm not looking into getting me a new one that will print out nic camera pic's to go with my new camera I ordeded.

I most of the time never even have any of them turned on. guess, I never write to people or print out stuff. I mostly save the text to disk or file. that way I'll always have a back-up copy of it!!

[Atomic Rooster]

Lexmark 3200 - parallel port. I like it's print quality. It does a decent job. It's just the darn ink cartridges at $28+ that kill me. :D

[RampageIII]

Same here Lexmark 3200 and she's pretty thirsty! ;)

[RK]

I use a HP lazerjet4 and a epson stylus color1520

[Hellmund]

Mainly been using a reliable old B&W BJ200EX for about 4 yrs and it's still going, nice clear text. Also got a color printer which is a BJ but don't know which model.....never really use it.

[otheos]

Well no printer does everything well so I got two:

An HP890C (old but good) for all heavy text printing hooked on parallel on my linux server.

An Epson Photo 790 (the cheapest photo quality 6 ink printer from epson). It's junk but has unbeatable print quality. It's slow too but was £100 less than the next up (which was only faster). Its hooked on USB on my linux server.

[Axel]

I only use my printer for tax forms once a year and to occassionally print out a mapquest document. So - I've got a dinosaur - HP 560C deskjet.....

I hate almost everything about it at this point - especially that I have to hand feed it one sheet at a time because the feed tracks and springs are so old.

I hate that the ink costs $24 or more a pop for the color cart.

It's speed is bad too. but for the little use I make of it - it just isn't worth replacing.

At the office, I have a little HP1100 on my desk and an hp4500 color laserjet on the network.

the laserjet costs a fortune - multiple ink drums and they cost $85 each time. there is a drum kit and that's even more expensive. The quality is very good, however. Speed isn't bad either.

The laserjet has seen over 100,000 pages in the last year - we've only had to replace a fan assembly in it.

The company workhorses are old HP4si's - we've got some on the network that have been running for 4 years and have over 500,000 pages on them. They make repair kits for the rollers on these, and they are now manufacturer discontinued - I'll miss them.

[ChoaticWhisper]

I have a HP Deskjet 610CL, only because it came with my computer and some old cannon BJC something. I dont use them.

[Fuser Man]

I work on laser printers every day and I don't think I could use an inkjet as my main printer. It be like have dail-up internet connection. Too slow, blaaaa. I do own a Canon BJC200, I use it to print t-shirt transfer for my son. I also have HP 5L(hooked up to computer), IID, 4L, and an 1100.

IMO, the HP 5 and the Lexmark Optra S two of the top printers. They both printer fast and parts are not too costly like the newer HP's.

[jadison]

I use an Epson Stylus 777.

I picked it over the HP equivalent because it produced better resolution, better pictures, faster, and cheaper. And it works well with Linux!

And the one of the best things about it (that not many people pay attention to right away) is that the print cartridges for it are atleast $5 cheaper than HP, if not more!

-=jd=-

[sys-eng]

I have a HP LaserJet 4/M with parallel connection. It prints very fine lines and never has any problems.

I also have a giant Epson 1250 dot-matrix (24 pin) printer that handles wide paper (tractor feed). We probably have printed about 500 pages with this printer.

I am planning to buy a color inkjet printer befrore Christmas. fromn all that I have read, Epson and HP are the ONLY inkjets to consider.

[NeoStarO1]

I use a HP OfficeJet g55 3 in one printer, being the paper pack rat that I am i needed something that will fill all my needs into one nice compact machine.

it provies. photocoping/scanning/printer.

I used to go to a print shop to get all the papers that i needed copied. I don't ever send any documents off to anyone without having a copy for myself and I came into some money and decided to invest in a good printer/copier/scanner.

Orignally I was looking for just printer/copier and turns out this one includes a scanner. already had a scanner, now that one is collecting dust.

This HP OfficeJet g55 was the best investment that i have ever made, its a inkjet printer and it prints smooth and fast. and have options determine the quality of your printing, for coping i use the fast mode and uses less ink and for high quality copy that i need or printing i use the top level quality of printing, uses much more ink then default setting for normal every day use. I often use the fast mode.

the quality of scanning is extremely good. I am very satified with its abilty to scan high quality documents/photos.

Printer just superb as well as coping.

the Ink cartirages cost no more than a regular plain ole stand alone ink jet printer for printing only.

I paid about 329 for this machine and it was the best well spent money on this and i would highly recommend this machine to anyone.

It prints off an average of 12 ppm color copies.

here is the link to the specific printer. HP OfficeJet g55 (http://products.hp-at-home.com/products/detail.php?id=C6736A)

NeoStar

[Undeadlord]

I use an old HP 672c .. I don't print very much so it works good .. although I have to admit I do like those new HP 972 or something .. nice fast color and black and white printing..


Undeadlord

[skuz]

I still use my first printer, a BJC 210, regular parallel port printer.

Like : does the job, still works.
don't like : I'd prefer a flat paper tray. Color printing is decent at best.

[nbk13nw]

Currently using two, HP LaserJet 4000TN and HP PSC 500 all in one.

The HP LaserJet 4000TN, two internal 250 sheet trays (letter and legal), 100MB RAM (Added 96MB Corsair) and it is really nice to que up a 16mb PDF file and watch the system release after a few seconds, JetDirect 600 10/100 NIC adapter, and 14,000 pages per cartridge at up to 16PPM x 1200DPI. Running across the network switch.

The HP PSC 500 (Printer, Copier, Scanner) is for the wife. Up to 8PPM color / B&W, Nice scanning / copying options, great color output on photo paper. Connected to the wifes by parallel and shared across the network.

[Welsh Wizard]

currently use 3 makes

Panasonic dot matrix,
Cheap to run, great for doing pre runs and system reports for file.

HP 880C Desk jet, reasonable quality print but slow, not to expensive to run.

Lexmark 5700 (1200x1200dpi)
Fast and very good quality print, can be set to lower res, and still give as good a print as the HP printer in fine print mode. expensive on cartidges.

Lexmark Z33
extreamly fast printer, Photo quality print from a cheap budget printer ( 2400 x 1200 dpi)

up to 9 pages per min output, cartridges expensive but worth it if you need hi quality output.

reason for useing HP and Lexmark over Epson printers is that every time you change the cartridge you give the printer a new print head, which you don't with Epson so the print Quality on the Epson decays from the moment you start useing it,

( her in doors uses Epson for her DTP side of the Biz and has to regularly replace the printer to maintain quality output.)

I have consider adding a laser printer, but have not found a reason to justify the extra cost of printer for the usage I personally put them too
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[astro]

I buy my cartridges from -Removed- they have good quality cartridges at cheap prices. not sure if they sell lexmark

[mickwish]

Hmm, I dunno if most of those blokes would want to buy cartridges from there, mate. It's a bit far for them. :P

Hope you ain't spammin' - they shoot spammers 'round these parts. :eek:

If you ain't spammin', though, welcome to XPC! :D

Cheers
Mick

[mickwish]

Oops, looks like astro (http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=104&page=7&pp=10) is a spammer... :eek: :o :eek:

Bye, bye ....

Mick

[Win2Kuser]

Blimey, this thread is 3 years old :eek:

No wonder most of the models listed here are old technology :)

[roadtech]

Only a spammer would bring back to life a 3 yead old thread.......:badass:

[Shyguy]

was wondering what was up with this, I noticed how old snowmans initial post was & was like WTF?

We just spotted another one of at HCW about a hour ago. 6 posts, all about Free this & Free that ($250 Golf equipment card, Nintendo DS, 40GB Ipod & Bose Sound Dock, Lyra Audio/video Jukebox), so if you see this guy around on here anytime soon, it'll hopefully be a quick spam & ban.