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Canon pixma IP3000 - works great for 11 months. Print a shipping label last night and then a letter to go in the box. Label prints fine, letter comes out blank. Clean printheads, re-install drivers, still no print either in color or black.

At best I will submit this thing to Canon for warranty repair and they will undoubtedly decline to repair it for free...

I bought the Canon because I vowed never to buy another Epson and Lexmark and HP cartridges cost more than the printers they go in.

I'd buy a laser if I didn't need color...

ARRGGH

you can get a laser in color

As for costly printer cartridges, I now buy inexpensive ink refill kits instead.

Color La$er$ are obviously better but require much cash. Also color lasers are slooooowwww.

I did ink refill kits and concluded they were responsible for my Epson printers dying from clogged printheads. I've turned away from refill kits and cheap cartridges because of print head clogs and short life of the cheapo cartridges.

This is actually one reason why I am so pissed. And I loved this printer until it crapped out. Fast, Quiet and nice resolution.

color lasers are faster than an inkjet, at least mine is.

I don't like canon because the inkjets are not on the cartridge. Once clogged, they are forever clogged.

HP puts the inkjets on the cartridge. Makes them slightly more expensive but you get NEW JETS every time you install a new cart.

My HP 722C deskjet is at least 8 yrs old and still working great. It uses large catridges compared to newer HP printers I've seen. The OEM cartidges usually last me a long time but now that my son's back in school and printing alot, I needed a cheaper alternative. I've only recently done the refill method but so far, it seems to work as well as ever.

yeah my HP 4500N is nice and fast on color... 5ppm. not to shabby considering how old it is. I can get a used one that may need some wrok done on it (see clean the piss (not real piss) out of it cause some dumbass loaded a toner cart wrong) for around $250. I got mine for nothing cause it had a bad fuser and was a mess. now i have a duplexer on it and its all working great. its a tad ghetto but it functions just like it should.

i usea epson printer -have for years and love them - and i use ink i get from a company called tlyer martin - there cartages are cheap and never had one problem with them . and i use like cartages like one a month on avg. i give the company 4 1/2 stars in service .

I gave up on ink jets ages ago. B/W laser is good enough.

Greg

Yeah but ive just started making my own custom t-shirts, jusdt by using iron on sheets, but nonetheless it still works out great. Anyways this is all done on my HP all in one injet printer, and so far im loving the quality its been doing as far as the print quality. The only thing I dislike about my printer as of right now, is the fact that it seems I go through ink like you can shoot bullets out of a minigun...... Not sure why, unless it could be the fact that if you do not just print out a bull**** page, for no specific reason, the rumor has it is that maybe your ink cart will dry up faster.

oops....

Premature E-Rant-alation. Called Canon this AM. Fifteen minutes later a replacement printer is on its way. However, this was facilitated by the fact my printer wouldn't even power up anymore, so the prob was more than just a clog...

lol, what a piece of junk.

Greg

i have a HP PSC all in one printer. i rarely use it for printing, cause most of what i print is text and i use a laser for that.


the 1st 3 months, i maybe printed 5 color pages on it and then it starts giving me cartridge errors, but the cart was still pretty much full. i messed around with it for a while and finally got it working; now i am afraid to turn it off, because i will probably get that error again.

HP issued a firmware patch for that issue, but it didn't seem to do much good.

HP claims the only solution after that is to just buy a new cart.

from what i have read around the web, HP has been putting "smart" chips in the carts as a new "feature" for advanced diagnostic and whatnot. but it also has the ability to render the cart useless if it detects a variance in the ink levels (preventing refilling) or a certain time has elapsed with the same cartridge.

Sounds like a defective cart actually or you've got corrosion or ink on the cartridge electrical contacts. They're easily cleaned with a CLEAN NEW pencil eraser.

Lack of use kills Inkjet printers - you HAVE to use them regularly or the cartridge or jets dry out.

I use a trusty and reliable Laserjet 6P for the bulk of my printing. The wife has an HP PSC 1410 she uses (and loves because it works so well as a copier) and I have it shared on the network for the occasional times I need to print color.

I've had nothing but HP Laserjets for the past 18 years: Laserjet II, III, 4L, 6P. None of them ever died. They were all given to someone after a lot of use. I hear my original 18 year old Laserjet II is still running.