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Best user friendly printer maker?
Hi all,
I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... |
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"***** charles" wrote in message m... Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... How friendly would you like the company to be? - free ink for the life of the printer? - eternal tech support and on site repair? - will call you on the weekends and ask if everything's been running OK? Just how much are you willing to spend on this "cheap" to buy and "cheap" maintain printer? You indicate that you don't necessarily even need color. That would indicate a laser printer for dependability and the lowest cost for consumables since you would only use black toner. How much printing do you intend to do with this printer? As far as "friendly" goes I think you really need to be specific in your expectations. The friendliest company I can think of is the one that puts out a reliable well dessigned machine that runs for years, doesn't cost an arm and leg, that prints nicely so I don't have to call them in the first place. Is there one? I don't think so. I would imagine that any printer that you buy right now will work with Vista and the printer company would either issue drivers for it or Vista would natively have drivers available. -- Jan Alter or |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
"***** charles" wrote in message m... Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. How cheap is cheap? I saw an HP printer in Wal Mart for $30 or so. I don't expect the company to be all that friendly over the years for a $30 printer though. None are truly cheap to operate unless you refill cartridges. How much printing do you do? Actually, you sound like a cheap SOB that knows little of setting up a printer and will be on the support line very day. I'd not sell you one if I was in the business. . |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
You do not want cheap but less expensive. You get what you pay for.
Try the Canon IP4200 using OEM ink. ***** charles wrote: Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... |
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***** charles wrote:
Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... Cheap to buy, cheap to maintain, and a friendly company, eh? OK, what planet are you from and what have you done with Charles? Is he in a pod in the basement? Oh, and if you want user-friendly, don't wait for Vista. You'll be disappointed. Get a Mac instead. It'll be much cheaper and easier to maintain, too. TJ |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA bull sh---- Get a Mac instead. It'll be much cheaper and easier to maintain, too. TJ -- Posted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
Thanks for the reasonable reply. I think I will go with
an Epson Stylus C88 for $80 at my local Staples. I specifically used the word cheap because of the connotation since it doesn't have to be heavy-duty. The other thing I like about the Epson is that it just works with Linux which I know is something I didn't mention in the OP. To me cheap means anything under a $100. When the time comes to change cartridges, it is almost easier/better to just buy another printer with a new waranttee since I don't print out that many pages in the life of the printer. Some manufacturers have a reputation of being user hostle. They don't release info about their products so programmers can write device drivers for them and such. I had a printer once that worked with an older version of Windows. When the newer version came out, the printer company said "buy a new printer", the company had no plans to write a new driver for my printer on the new version of the os. I said I will not buy another one of your products and I never have. later, charles...... "measekite" wrote in message t... You do not want cheap but less expensive. You get what you pay for. Try the Canon IP4200 using OEM ink. ***** charles wrote: Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
***** charles wrote:
Thanks for the reasonable reply. I think I will go with an Epson Stylus C88 for $80 at my local Staples. I specifically used the word cheap because of the connotation since it doesn't have to be heavy-duty. The other thing I like about the Epson is that it just works with Linux which I know is something I didn't mention in the OP. To me cheap means anything under a $100. When the time comes to change cartridges, it is almost easier/better to just buy another printer with a new waranttee since I don't print out that many pages in the life of the printer. Some manufacturers have a reputation of being user hostle. They don't release info about their products so programmers can write device drivers for them and such. I had a printer once that worked with an older version of Windows. When the newer version came out, the printer company said "buy a new printer", the company had no plans to write a new driver for my printer on the new version of the os. I said I will not buy another one of your products and I never have. later, charles...... "measekite" wrote in message . net... You do not want cheap but less expensive. You get what you pay for. Try the Canon IP4200 using OEM ink. ***** charles wrote: Hi all, I need to get a new printer. It needs to be cheap to buy, cheap to maintain and the company should be friendly to the people who buy their products. B&W or color is ok. Is there such a company? It should also be able to work with Vista when it comes out. thanks, charles.... We use the Epson C88 as our standard work horse printers for documents, etc. We use only after market carts from inksupply.com and ignore any warnings that come during install. We have never been let down or disappointed in the performance of the printer or ink. Frank |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
***** charles wrote: Thanks for the reasonable reply. I think I will go with an Epson Stylus C88 for $80 at my local Staples. I specifically used the word cheap because of the connotation since it doesn't have to be heavy-duty. The other thing I like about the Epson is that it just works with Linux which I know is something I didn't mention in the OP. To me cheap means anything under a $100. When the time comes to change cartridges, it is almost easier/better to just buy another printer with a new waranttee since I don't print out that many pages in the life of the printer. Some manufacturers have a reputation of being user hostle. They don't release info about their products so programmers can write device drivers for them and such. I had a printer once that worked with an older version of Windows. When the newer version came out, the printer company said "buy a new printer", the company had no plans to write a new driver for my printer on the new version of the os. I said I will not buy another one of your products and I never have. later, charles...... The canon support under linux is spotty. I'm not sure there are drivers for the new ip4200/ip5200, but if so they would be on the .jp canon ftp site ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/driver/bj/linux/ there is always turboprint. Adds to the cost, but does the job. If you consideer epson, consider the Epson referb site, they have the c88 for $59 with free shipping. Direct linking is a pain so visit www.epson.com and click on clearance center on the right hand side. |
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Best user friendly printer maker?
"***** charles" wrote in message t... Thanks for the reasonable reply. I think I will go with an Epson Stylus C88 for $80 at my local Staples. I specifically used the word cheap because of the connotation since it doesn't have to be heavy-duty. The other thing I like about the Epson is that it just works with Linux which I know is something I didn't mention in the OP. To me cheap means anything under a $100. You ask a question, you don't like most of the answers, then you come back and finally tell the "rest of the story". Next time, think about what you really want to know and ask with all the information needed to make a proper recommendation. . |
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