Comments on: Why I won’t buy another Canon all-in-one printer

By: Devon T. Sowell

Devon T. Sowell — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:08:46 +0000

I’ve experienced the opposite; many problems and short lives with HP printers and excellent performance and long lives from Canon printers.

My MP730 is over 3 years old with no problems. We also have a Canon iP6600D that prints OUSTANDING photos. Canon photo paper is the best. I use a Canon iP3500 that wokrs great with my 64bit computers, great quality prints from it too.

Devon
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By: R.K. McSwain

R.K. McSwain — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 17:43:07 +0000

Steve – good points. Mine is only for home printing, which isn’t really that much. Best printer I ever had was an Okidata laser (like this: http://tinyurl.com/64lwsz ), purchased back in 1995. It lasted almost 10 years. Toner was US$25 and it probably only used 5 over it’s life.

By: ralphg

ralphg — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:35:13 +0000

I have two printers:

HP LaserJet for most of my printing. Monochrome toner is the cheapest, especially when I buy two-packs.

HP PhotoSmart inkjet for the occasional color printing.

Both do two-sided printing to save paper. Both are on the network so that any computer can access them.

The solution is in your last sentence: buy only HP printers. (Epsons are particularly awful.)

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:08:40 +0000

That’s too bad. I’ve got a Canon 3-in-one that I’ve been running for about two years now & (knock on wood) haven’t had any major problems. I’ve been out of color ink for awhile now, but I can still print in black. My main beef is not being able to change the default settings on the copier function. I don’t copy photos so it’s a pain having to scroll through all the options to find 8.5 x 11 plain paper each time I need to make a copy. I also hate the tiny ink tanks that have to be changed so frequently.

I’ve got a HP Deskjet at work and it picks up paper from the tray crookedly so I can’t print labels and anything good that’s going to leave the office has to be sent to the shared network printer.

By: Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:15:48 +0000

I agree about the ink rip-off honey trap. I actually considered doing the disposable printer thing myself, but didn’t. This is because I wanted more features than the cheapest printers were offering, I wanted some printer stability for a few years, I didn’t like the idea of creating so much landfill, and I read that the printer makers have started shipping the cheapies with half-capacity ink tanks.

By: R.K. McSwain

R.K. McSwain — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:01:34 +0000

Any ‘non-business class’ printer (i.e.: several hundred US$) – is simply an tool to sell overpriced ink. I have just started buying $40 printers and replacing them when the ink runs out – since the replacement ink is more than $40.

By: Robin Capper

Robin Capper — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:52:23 +0000

That’s sad to read. I had a good run from Canon inkjets, have had an a4 and a3, but they died of genuine old age. I can advise not to bother with Lexmark as the one I got was “free” (with a software upgrade) and not worth the price.
A heap of junk that’s gathering dust, but luckily I rarely print much anyway.