What do you guys find to be the best desktop printer value? I have a Laserjet 4L that I treasure, but my wife has gone through inkjets at the rate of one every 7 months or so. We have tried HP, Lexmark and Canon and the longest one has lasted has been, I think, 7 or 8 months. One of the HP's only lasted a week (and HP user support was no help) so that worked out to something like $15 per copy. The Lexmark only lasted about three months...
They do not get heavy usage at all, and perhaps that is the problem; perhaps we do not use them enough. But after some months we start get getting "printer is not responding" messages and reinstalling drivers does not do the job. And/or the printer makes a horrible noise and dies. Or the carriage does not come to the center when the lid is raised.
They find different ways to fail, but to pay a couple hundred dollars for something that is going to last less than a year is starting to become annoying. Or is the problem my expectations? How long should an inkjet last?
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rorycanyon
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I like HP
It works well for me~~,but I have never tried heavy load, like printing >5000 pages continuously