Posted: 1/22/2011 7:13:08 PM EDT
My Printer is dieing. So who makes the best wireless printer and how much will it cost me?
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| Laser or inkjet? If you don't need to print color all the time I highly recommend lasers, since there are no cartridges to dry out all the time or jets to clog up. I have a wireless HP laserjet I bought recently for $100 and it works flawlessly on my home network. |
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Quoted: I will need to print color and photo's. The wife is a artist and we make a copy of everything she does. I should have added more info, sorry. In that case I'd recommend Canon, IMO they are the best consumer grade printers for photo work. Just pick the model with the best price/performance for your budget, the built in wireless thing has pretty much been perfected at this point. |
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I will need to print color and photo's. The wife is a artist and we make a copy of everything she does. I should have added more info, sorry. In that case I'd recommend Canon, IMO they are the best consumer grade printers for photo work. Just pick the model with the best price/performance for your budget, the built in wireless thing has pretty much been perfected at this point. I had a Canon. Ink was expensive so I bought a bunch when I found a deal. Damn printer died with some ink over flow pad sensor that I couldn't reset that probably got messed up from using print head cleaning function. Second Canon printer that has crapped on me. I bought a wireless Lexmark to replace it. Cost about $125.00 with a scanner built in. I probably should go with a laser printer if they don't use ink as I print most black anyway. |
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I have a brother MFC-2840W. B&W laser printer/scanner/copier/fax. I have had it 2 years and used it extensively in grad school. I am very happy with its performance and speed. Scans are high quality and the driver and supporting software is low-impact, easy to use, and not an obnoxious resource hog, like HP's. I paid 200. Staples price-matched Best Buy, saving me a 75 mile drive. |
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Canon MP640 owner here. It's a great printer, but I don't know how to judge the print quality which I suspect is of paramount importance to your wife. I have bought refillable replacement cartridges for it which auto-reset. Coupled with cheap bulk ink makes for cost-effective printing. |
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My Printer is dieing. So who makes the best wireless printer and how much will it cost me?I just got a new Gateway without a serial port so my older (ready to trash) Lexmark Z-52 is relegated to backup status and I've been looking at cheaper <$150 'all-in-one ink jets. Epson's NX-620 & 515 seem to be a winners, but ink is pretty spendy at a Costco price of $58 for a color/bw pack. At $100_$120, they do copy/print/scan but no FAX. They are wifi capable and also have USB ports. Kodak makes the 5250 that has great text printing and good to very good picture (4"x6") printing abilities. It's a C/P/S, has wifi, but no FAX. $100 if you look around. Color/BW ink is ~$30. HP makes a couple similar to the above and then a Workforce series, which does FAX. The latter are closer to $150, ink seems to be in between the Kodak and the Epson offerings. I don't need wifi, but the new PC has it, even though I'm hard wired to DSL, I might want to go this route. Chris |
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+1 for Brother. We've got a 6490 that works great. Punching in the wireless key was a PITA but other than that it's all good. If I were you, I'd outsource printing the pictures. There are plenty of places that will print them and mail them to your house. Some offer archive quality prints for a low fee. Or you can always print them at your local photo store, walgreens, walmart, etc. Home printing is high cost/ mediocre return unless you really want to spend the money on the printer and consumables. |
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I am on my first wireless printer, HP Photosmart C4795, and I'm not completely impressed.
Quality is good, and it's an "all in one", so scanner and copier too, both of which work fine. However it's behaving in exactly the same stupid manner as my old WD Worldbook (1TB NAS device), in that after being on for a day or two, it loses/forgets its dhcp address and must be restarted. That's the only reason I can't really recommend it, everything else about it is great. |
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I just bought a Epson Workforce 615 at Sam's Club for $56. It's an all-in-one that prints, copy's, faxes and scans. It is compatible with 802.11 b & g networks. Set-up was amazingly easy and it does a remarkably good job with everything. The printer uses separate ink cartridges, so you only have to replace the one that is out and not the whole color cartridge.
The Epson Workforce 635 is Wireless N if you're using that one, but the 635's are much more expensive. |