WHY can't HP or Canon make a reliable decent printer that does not drive even the most savvy computer users crazy?

In a moment of clarity I decided to extremely modify my Canon Inkjet printer into about 50 pieces. IT FELT GREAT!

I bought this Canon as a replacement for a failing HP printer that needed to be reinstalled everytime before you could print. (thanks to HP and Win-XP for that problem)

After a 2.5 years and very little use the Canon decides it needs to have about 1 hours worth of cleaning and re-aligning before it will spit out even the simplest BW page of text. I put up with this for about 6 months, and maybe a dozen times of doing this litte dance, then finally even the cleaning would not work.

Thus, I decided that my time is worth more than this printer. I chose to not to waste another minute trying to get it to work and reduced it to a pile of rubble it already was.

In this moment of clarity I realized what a racket this printer market is. Even if yours happens to work you are probably still spending way too much for ink cartridges. And by the time yours starts to malfunction, the print company and windows has already moved on and would rather sell you something new than support or back up their own products.

On principal I will not give either of these companies another cent. I am tempted to emial Canon a photo of their newly Improved "I-860".

But the real question is: What brand of printer should I get now?

Jim





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• OT: Computer printers...ARGGG!, JimN, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:19:30 <-- Viewing This Message
  • Re: OT: Computer printers new offering from Kodak, graphitegreen, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 09:40:00
    • How 'bout a direct link to Kodak printers page? n/m, Allen in N.O., Thu, 8 Feb 2007 08:21:01
      • You asked for it..., aizzo , Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:57:18
  • Thanks for the Moral support and feedback, JimN, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:36:28
  • Don't buy inkjet printers!, AdamB , Tue, 6 Feb 2007 03:17:12
    • Re: Don't buy inkjet printers!, oldsaab, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 06:26:16
  • Computer printers...you should be networking them too, oldsaab, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 00:57:53
    • I don't do Windows, but that seems like a, Noel, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 05:11:41
      • Re: I don't do Windows, but that seems like a, oldsaab, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 06:25:19
  • Re: OT: Computer printers...ARGGG!, Justin VanAbrahams , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:24:23
  • no more epsons for me!, KenManiac , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:17:03
    • Epsons best for large batch printing, Erik919kt, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 14:32:29
  • Agreed, HP is not in my future>, Mike in Anchorage, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:12:24
  • Epson has worked well for me too, UpstateNY Bill, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:58:01
  • Revisit Canon, ChuckD , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 17:35:36
    • Re: Seconding: Revisit Canon, anthonySF, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 20:35:56
      • My Canon worked great at first too..., JimN, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:19:37
        • Re: I hate to say it.. but maybe two years is asking.., anthonySF, Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:27:45
          • some good points there, oldsaab, Wed, 7 Feb 2007 10:14:37
  • Old LaserJet 5M and new Epson Stylus CX7800, Geoff, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:30:02
  • Razors and razorblades..., Noel, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:37:57
  • I bought a Brother Multi-Function and am really happy.., Wil W , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:53:28
  • Same boat, I have six computers and four printers...., TKC, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:21:39
  • I have this cheap Epson that came free with my laptop, turrbo , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:02:37
    • I chose Epson as well and am very happy... Lexmark too, Scott Paterson , Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:40:44
  • Re: OT: Computer printers...ARGGG!, AeroDave, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:46:50
    • 4th that!, nathanael, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 22:04:35
    • third that, jp, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:09:58
      • and, jp, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:17:38
    • I'll almost 2nd that.., AlS, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:19:17
    • That's sort of what I am thinking as well., JimN, Mon, 5 Feb 2007 12:11:44

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