Why are printers so crap?

Canon gets my vote, l own Canon Pixma ip4300 cracking bit of kit, especially know you can get compatible ink cartridges with the chip.
 
Hmm, maybe time to enter the murky world of printers again, then.

Just like the OP, I have had nothing but bad experiences with printers. It seems from this thread that inkjets have improved immeasurably. I gave them up after buying a highly recommended Canon BJC 3000 or something like.

I'm a rare printer - one of my major problems would be ink drying up in between print jobs, so what I've read above is fantastic news!
 
Our company use HP printers and almost all of them cause me so many problems. Well over 50% of our support calls are printer related. I've just been trying to sort out a problem where a printer won't delete on a system, the printer showing is one which was replaced but not showing the new driver and duplexing will not work.

It's crap, HP printer drivers are absolutely terrible. We use a lot of their officejet all in ones. They are slow, unreliable and the drivers are even worse than the standard pritners.

Our recent HP printers have also included the 2015, a very quick printer but we've had to return every single one at least once because it will gradually die and need restarting 3-4 times a day.

3505, driver support is pants and would simply print out hundreds of pages of random characters, we actually used a 3800 series driver to fix this.

I also find that when I go to set up a shared printer on our server that it takes hours sometimes to make the default settings retain. I also find that more than half of the time printers will set to letter instead of A4. Why it does it on some computers i don't understand and you have to change every setting about 5-6 times in different places in the printer setup.

We have a single epson on site and it just sits there working away, no issues what so ever.

I hate HP
 
the main issue i have with printers - inkjet anyway is if you dont use it for a while, the nozzles clog.
 
I had a HP printer once the god dame thing keep on freaking out so i got IP1300 canon work's very well.
 
Canon vote again.

I use an i965 and it's been awesome.

Amazing for photo's but still great for text. Is incredibly fast too. Not quite lazer speed but close.

Also, cartridges are reasonably priced and aren't chipped - they use an optical system to determine when the ink is getting close to running out.

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I've got a canon pixma ip3000, had it for about 3 years and I have never had any trouble with it.
I print dvds, photos and text, colour and b/w and have been very pleased with the results that it's given.

The only thing though, it not a mutli-function printer, so I can't scan images.
I'll have to buy one at some point.

It will be a Canon though.:)
 
canon are the only printers i like
but i never bother with printers
too much of an expense
i put what i need on a usb stick and print at work if i must

i once called epson to tell them how 'wonderful' their printers werent
 
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