On 10/4/2016 5:10 PM, Taxed and Spent wrote:
On 10/4/2016 1:27 PM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:14:02 -0700, Taxed and Spent
wrote:

On 10/4/2016 11:46 AM, Stormin' Norman wrote:
On Tue, 4 Oct 2016 13:36:59 -0500, Muggles
wrote:

I'm going cross-eyed looking at ads for home office printers. Every
time I look at the customer ratings and comments, it seems I'll see
mixed reviews, many good ones and then some awful ones, which makes me
want to go look at the next machine.

My current printer is an HP Photosmart that keeps having an ink error.
In the past I've been able to do a master reset, which allows me to
print in black only, because that's all I need right now, but a 3rd
color cartridge ran out of ink and set up that ink error again. The
master reset hasn't worked this time, and I've tried it about 10 times
thus far.

I can buy the color ink cartridges and install them, but it's no
guarantee that it will them allow a master reset. It had been leaking
one of the color cartridges, and that started all of a sudden, but
allowed me to print in black until now.

So, I'm thinking it's time to chuck this printer that's at least 10
years old and get a new one.

Any recommendations? I like inkjet, color, and all-in-ones
(printer/scanner/copier...)


We have two of these inkjets in the business and they perform
admirably.

http://amzn.to/2dtdNMG

My personal preference is black and white lasers for 99% of our
printing and for the occasional color job, we have a shared color
laser.


you prefer B&W lasers, but give a recommendation for an inkjet.

What is your recommendation for a B&W laser?

Obviously you are confused, the OP indicated she preferred color,
inkjet printers.


No, I'm not confused. I wanted a recommendation for a B&W laser.

I have a cheap Samsung laser (ML-1865W ~$60) and it is a workhorse. The
only way I'll replace it is if it dies. I like it because you get a new
drum with each toner cartridge. When the "replace toner cartridge
light" comes on, you can continue printing for a long, long time and
still get good quality prints. The only features lacking are auto
duplex and ethernet connection. I don't use the wireless feature as it
didn't seem to work well ... whenever there was a power failure, I would
have to re-setup each of the PCs to work again, but frankly, it might be
that I was doing something wrong. The newer Samsungs have ethernet and
auto duplexing and even have a smaller profile because of the paper
drawer, but of course, cost a bit more ... but not too much more!