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Wow, not much activity here, but I'll try this anyway. (is there a better
forum these days?) Our 6 yo Workforce 610 is showing signs of old age. I never did like it much, but it has mostly been a good printer for the home. I was really angry when I found out that if any one of the carts is empty, then NOTHING works, not faxing or scanning or monocolor printing. I swore never to buy Epson again. But I wonder if there's a brand that doesn't have that behavior? And is reliable? We need the scanner, preferably two- sided. FAX is nice although our need for that is almost zero lately. Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). |
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:36:15 GMT, default
wrote: Wow, not much activity here, but I'll try this anyway. (is there a better forum these days?) Our 6 yo Workforce 610 is showing signs of old age. I never did like it much, but it has mostly been a good printer for the home. I was really angry when I found out that if any one of the carts is empty, then NOTHING works, not faxing or scanning or monocolor printing. I swore never to buy Epson again. But I wonder if there's a brand that doesn't have that behavior? And is reliable? We need the scanner, preferably two- sided. FAX is nice although our need for that is almost zero lately. Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). Do you need color? How much printing do you do? I've found that HP has been a solid performer no matter the model/category. If you use little color, consider a laser for the black printing and a separate color setup. |
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:36:15 +0000, default wrote:
Wow, not much activity here, but I'll try this anyway. (is there a better forum these days?) Our 6 yo Workforce 610 is showing signs of old age. I never did like it much, but it has mostly been a good printer for the home. I was really angry when I found out that if any one of the carts is empty, then NOTHING works, not faxing or scanning or monocolor printing. I swore never to buy Epson again. But I wonder if there's a brand that doesn't have that behavior? And is reliable? We need the scanner, preferably two- sided. FAX is nice although our need for that is almost zero lately. Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). Always have had Brother laser printers. They work with anything, and the wireless models are really sweet. |
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sctvguy1 wrote: On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:36:15 +0000, default wrote: Wow, not much activity here, but I'll try this anyway. (is there a better forum these days?) Our 6 yo Workforce 610 is showing signs of old age. I never did like it much, but it has mostly been a good printer for the home. I was really angry when I found out that if any one of the carts is empty, then NOTHING works, not faxing or scanning or monocolor printing. I swore never to buy Epson again. But I wonder if there's a brand that doesn't have that behavior? And is reliable? We need the scanner, preferably two- sided. FAX is nice although our need for that is almost zero lately. Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). Always have had Brother laser printers. They work with anything, and the wireless models are really sweet. Many people here have praised Brother printers over the years. When my ancient Xerox copier died recently, I bought a Brother MFC-L8850CDW all-in-one Laser machine. It makes good scans and black-and-white copies, but for color copies or prints, not so good! I can use it to scan a color photo and print it on an HP Laser printer, and the image is great. Print the same scan to the Brother, and contrast is increased. Color prints are just not as good as on the HP. Except for that, the machine is impressive. It can do double-sided color copies, and anything else you might want an all-in-one machine to do including printing from an iPhone or iPad. But it was not cheap! Fred |
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default wrote: Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look) I've been quite happy with our WF-7515 and if you do a lot of printing CIS is available: http://www.cityinkexpress.co.uk/ciss...series/dye-ink -- Stuart Winsor Tools With A Mission sending tools across the world http://www.twam.co.uk/ |
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:36:15 +0000, default wrote:
TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'm impressed with all the responses, as it looks like newsgroups are becoming dinosaurs. So bottom line is the well-known brands all have fans. Good to know. No one commented on my complaint about my AIO being completely dead for lack of 4 good cartridges. I still would like to know if some brands don't have that characteristic. We don't do much color printing, but we need color available. And I'm not inclined to have two devices because of limited space. Six years ago I avoided HP because I'd read some horror stories about their customer services. I will reconsider. We also looked at Brother. We even brought one home, but then returned it because the paper loading was so inconvenient and the tray seemed awfully complicated and flimsy. The FAX capability was extremely impressive compared to the Epson, but in reality it was way beyond our needs. I will consider a laser. Even though we don't do much color, I would like to be able to print the occasional photo and Christmas letter. One thing I wonder about is the warm-up time, which Ive heard is a problem with lasers. Could it be a serious convenience issue? |
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:30:19 +0000, Stuart wrote:
In article , default wrote: Preferably ink that doesn't cost so much. Am I asking for too much? TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look) I've been quite happy with our WF-7515 and if you do a lot of printing CIS is available: http://www.cityinkexpress.co.uk/ciss...series/dye-ink I'd never do enough printing to justify one of those, but I'm really awed! |
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default wrote: On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 07:36:15 +0000, default wrote: TIA for any suggestions (including where else to look). [..] We don't do much color printing, but we need color available. And I'm not inclined to have two devices because of limited space. Six years ago I avoided HP because I'd read some horror stories about their customer services. I will reconsider. We also looked at Brother. We even brought one home, but then returned it because the paper loading was so inconvenient and the tray seemed awfully complicated and flimsy. The FAX capability was extremely impressive compared to the Epson, but in reality it was way beyond our needs. I will consider a laser. Even though we don't do much color, I would like to be able to print the occasional photo and Christmas letter. One thing I wonder about is the warm-up time, which Ive heard is a problem with lasers. Could it be a serious convenience issue? The HP Laser here, (a twin-side duplex colour printer Pro 400 series M451dn), doesn't take anytime at all to warm up ..it's left 'on' the whole time in a sort of sleep/immediate wake mode, as recommended by HP. Uses a minimum of power. Incidentally, it also prints duplex automatically - no need to re-stack and re-feed paper as in some other or earlier duplex printers. Naturally, being HP, it wakes itself up every now and then, snorts, chunters to itself, smacks its lips and then dozes back off again. Does this arrangement work? Simply, yes! ...as it has for the last couple of years or so - and for fifteen years before that with a 'baby' HP LaserJet 5L. Cartridges are cheap(er/ish), even very cheap, providing they are from or through a quality/trusted aftermarket supplier. As it is a duplex printer, black print cartridges seem to last for around 4000+ to 4400 'sides', with colour coming in at a respectable 2600+ sides - or better. Print quality is visually 'high' ..ie well defined with an apparently accurate colour-palette - but this, of course, will depend on how exacting your needs or standards are. I would not describe the printouts as exactly a photographic studios' top quality exhibition standard - but perfectly ok for normal human everyday use. Being laser prints the cost per print is usually significantly a lot less than inkjet cartridge printing. Print speed for the M451dn is around 20ppm bw/12ppm colour - although by now it may have have been superseded by a newer, faster and cheaper (for HP!) version. Checkout Amazon.*.*'s own Marketplace 'deals': mine came with the printer + four colour cartridges thrown in for free ..or put another way, for the cost of the four colour carts with the printer thrown in for free! Either way, more expensive than a colour inkjet but, as lasers go, very, very cheap. Worked straight out of the box - (easily worked out how to switch on duplex printing from the printer itself - it still prints a single side if that's all there is to print); that's been it for the last two or more years of continual use.. ...remembering never to switch it 'off', as it happily chunters to and occasionally cleans, recalibrates, or resets itself ..and, of course, it's always immediately available when one hits the print key - from any networked/wirelessly connected machine. Bit like having a pet cat ..and yes, it can even purr.. Hope helps.. ) Bill ZFC -- Adoption InterLink UK with -=- http://www.billsimpson.com/ Domain Host Orpheus Internet -=- http://www.orpheusinternet.co.uk/ |
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On Mon, 04 Jan 2016 12:14:35 -0500, Fred McKenzie wrote:
Many people here have praised Brother printers over the years. When my ancient Xerox copier died recently, I bought a Brother MFC-L8850CDW all-in-one Laser machine. It makes good scans and black-and-white copies, but for color copies or prints, not so good! I can use it to scan a color photo and print it on an HP Laser printer, and the image is great. Print the same scan to the Brother, and contrast is increased. Color prints are just not as good as on the HP. Except for that, the machine is impressive. It can do double-sided color copies, and anything else you might want an all-in-one machine to do including printing from an iPhone or iPad. But it was not cheap! Fred I do not do any color printing. B&W suits all of our needs, that is why we have had Brother laser printers. |
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On Tue, 05 Jan 2016 07:57:51 GMT, default
wrote: Thanks to all for the suggestions. I'm impressed with all the responses, as it looks like newsgroups are becoming dinosaurs. So bottom line is the well-known brands all have fans. Good to know. No one commented on my complaint about my AIO being completely dead for lack of 4 good cartridges. I still would like to know if some brands don't have that characteristic. HP uses a single color cartridge. AFAIK it will continue to print black if one color goes out and will continue to print color but will not look right if one color is out. Six years ago I avoided HP because I'd read some horror stories about their customer services. I will reconsider. Can't help you there. I've personally owned 5 HP printers over the last 25 or so years and have 6 of them at work. Never had reason to ever call customer service. One of the laser printers that gets the heaviest use did break down after about 6 years. Called a local printer service company and they guy was at our place than same morning and had us up and running in 20 minutes. |
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