Community poll forum: What brand of printer do you own, and are you happy with it?

Yes they have been excellent printers

I have an Epson 1800 and like it very much.

I have a Lexmark Z42 at the moment, I say at the moment because the Lexmark printer refills are so expensive that I usally by a new printer with free refills. This works out the cheapest. A New printer with Black cartridge and Colour cartridges cost around 20 where refills are around 30. I do not do much printing so I refill the cartridges for a while but the printer heads are built into the cartridge so they are only worth refilling a few times.

I love this printer I bought it from USA
It is a wonderful machineMuy next will be an all in aone laser printer
billyseetharam@yahoo.com 5th April 2006

Had this for 3+ years. Peachy happy. Operation has been flawless - not even a paper jam. Cartridges a third less than an HP equivelant.

HP is good but there are many more good choices today other than HP for a considerably lower total cost of ownership.

Desktop laser print is no longer a new technology!

R. Cain

I use an HP Deskjet 529 and have used it for years for my black and white printer. A Canon S820D for color and photographs.I am very satisfied with both

I've been using H-P deskjet printer for quite some time. They have always been good to me; from the 500 on up. These days, I'm using a 5550 on a G4 Powermac and a 6540 on the PC server in our home. Bullet proof, fast and I just love the paper-type sensor. But, most of all, the customer service and the website are excellent.

I think this: all printers are "good", some better ones to others, but, this canon is very good for all, excellent, AND compatibles cartridges VERY ECONOMICS AND USEFULL.

That it's my opinion (sorry my english)

Santiago Pereira

delighted with the print quality - with the correct paper - Olmec satin finish from www.ici-imagedata.com

I've had my Epson CX3200 for a couple of years now and I like it very much. I have since bough aanother newer computer, a Dell, that came with a dell printer but I still do my printing on my old computer with my Epson!

all in one the printer is fast, great software ,easy update sections, the ink last's longer than either the Epson or the H.P's that i have used in the past.The photo printer using the "photo" cartridge is exellent{i use the lexmark paper}.The added voice menu and ink notification is really handy and pretty darn accurate. Company should hire me as a spokes person 8-)

I have a Lexmark X73, my general printer, a Canon ip6600D for printing small photos, and an HP DesignJet 130nr for printing large photos and drawings. Each is good for various purposes.

The Lexmark is an all-in-one printer and has a built-in scanner, good, but not great. It can also make copies, which comes in handy at times. It does a nice job of printing documents and is generally thrifty on ink. One nice feature is that documents can be set up to print from last to first page, so they come out collated.

The Canon does a wonderful job of printing photos, which is what it was purchased for. It will print up to 8.5x11 in full bleed, which is great. With its six reservoirs, it does a great job of colour matching; however, it seems to go through the Photo Magenta a bit fast. Maybe it's my subjects, or the size of the prints, but that ink cartridge just went very quickly. The Photo Cyan is also going fast. Having two trays for different photo stocks is also nice, so that I can have 4x6 and 8.5x11 stock to choose from in different trays at the same time.

The HP is extremely thrifty on ink, despite the size of the prints that it makes (19x24"). Only one cartidge is down 1/4 (again, the photo magenta). It prints quite quickly for the size of the prints, too. The downside is the difficulty in lining up the sheets for feeding into the back of the printer. I tried feeding them into the front, but it resulted in buggered front edges of the prints, not a satisfactory product. The printer also has a hard time picking up some types of paper from the tray, due to the slipperiness of the backing; these must be fed from the alternate feed tray singly.
Some of these problems could be eliminated by using the roll feeder; however, that would result in a lot of wasted stock.

I have had pretty good luck with this printer,other than it likes to use ink a lot.Does good job on most photos,sometimes on full page photos ,it is off a little.Overall the best printer in the house as compared to the other three.

I've owned numerous printers and have found that HPs are still the best. Other printers haver improved over the years but there is still noone that designs more reliable, high quality printers than HP. They test their printers more than anyone and the results show. The print system with hardware, supplies and paper is all designed together to deliver trouble free results. I have better things to do than worry about my output.