What is your faveouroute printer company?

[CaptainQuark]

Just taken delivery of a brand spanking new Xerox Phaser 7400DT. What a beast! It's even larger than the QMS!

Only just started tinkering and finding out what it can do, but so far I'm impressed!

I think someone cocked up with our order, though, as this bad boy has a duplexer unit even though we didn't order one. But if the boss realises his mistake, he'll have to KILL me to get it off me!

[Satcomer]

I have an old Canon S520 and a new Canon IP5200 wireless. Both work extremely well and the ink cartridges are cheap in my area. The Canon drivers have been spot on and the color (especially on the IP5200) is very good. I am also surprised on how quite they both can be.

[adambyte]

I have had FOUR Epson printers, and they were all horrible, to put it mildly. They are finicky and print inconsistently.

Oh, how I miss my HP 850C that I used throughout the mid-nineties...

EDIT: Excuse me. Full name: Hewlett Packard DeskJet 850C ... the "C" stands for color!

[symphonix]

I have yet to ever own a printer that I'm really happy with. I've owned printers from all the four big brands, and every one of them has had its pros and cons.

My current is a Lexmark X2250 all in one printer scanner.
Pros are: cheap to buy and to run, compact, decent inbuilt scanner, good software/drivers.
Cons are: unusually poor print quality, slow, small ink capacity requiring regular refills, and absolutely hopeless at feeding envelopes. Photos? Forget about it.

My previous printers from Canon, HP and Epson have always been hit and miss affairs. Find one that has good print quality, and its software will be crummy or it will run noisily. Find one that has a decent scanner, and you can forget about feeding envelopes in or printing to CD/DVD printables. Find a printer that does good photo-quality prints, and you can expect it will suck on black and white documents.

The Canon I owned (can't remember the model now) had the worst consumption of ink cartridges I have ever encountered. I had a HP inkjet that ran cheaply enough, but was noisy enough to wake up everybody in the building if I used it to print an assignment late at night. The two Epsons I have owned either had really poor print quality or were badly built and prone to failure.

Some day, I will stumble across a consumer-level printer that doesn't suck the big one. Quite possibly it will be on the shelf next to the cold fusion machine. Until then, I can't say I have a favourite printer company.

[mdnky]

Laser: Xerox & HP
Inkjet: Epson & HP

Currently have an Epson Photo R1800 and HP LaserJet 1200, both have been awesome machines so far.

[fryke]

My venerable cheap Brother laser just prints. It's been _so_ dependable, in fact, that I haven't thought about buying a printer in 3 years. Normally (before), I'd look at laser printers all the time, thinking that I'd like a different one etc.

As for a little more expensive printers: I just *LOVED* the GCC Elite 1212 we had at the office a few years ago. I don't even know if they still _make_ printers, but those were the ones if you wanted your b/w prints _good_.

[RGrphc2]

I got probably the most expensive printer outta all of you. i have the canon i9900 gorgeous, prints from 4x6 to 13x19, the only grief that i have with it is that it is huge, and i mean huge. but well worth what i paid for it.

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by fryke

My venerable cheap Brother laser just prints. It's been _so_ dependable, in fact, that I haven't thought about buying a printer in 3 years. Normally (before), I'd look at laser printers all the time, thinking that I'd like a different one etc.

As for a little more expensive printers: I just *LOVED* the GCC Elite 1212 we had at the office a few years ago. I don't even know if they still _make_ printers, but those were the ones if you wanted your b/w prints _good_.

Brother HL-2030?

i think i need a laser printer. my cheap lexmark inkjet is not worth keeping running, and i only do quick prints here (i use a print shop for full quality prints).

is this your printer? is it a good printer? how long has the toner lasted you? when do you expect to change it/change the drum? how fast is it to print? how long for the first page?