I 2nd that; never power off a printer, they periodically do self maintenance on the print heads to keep them unclogged.
I highly recommend an Epson eco-printer; they use bottled ink and the bottles are much cheaper than cartridges. There are several models ranging in price and features.

My next printer will not be a color printer. I would rarely need color and the price is pretty high. I have also since found that even when you print in B&W the printer still uses some color and as each color runs out it has to be replace or you cannot print at all.

Be cautious, when buying a printer the first cost is not the only factor. You will be using many, many replacement cartridges during its lifetime. When looking into printers, also some have one cartridge which has the colors and black. When one of the colors or black is used up, the rest of the ink goes to waste. Suggest you look for a printer that has threee sepereate cartridges for the color, and a fourth for Black. I have had a Brother printer for 5 plus years. Their service of any issues via telephone is fantastic. The cost of ink is reasonable. Be cautious of the low initial price printer, they get you on the cartridges.

As far as poor ratings. Before buying any product on line the first thing I look at is the negative ratings. Some are reasonable. Things that perhaps I didn't realize were included in competitive products. Some people post unreasonable expectations. For example the original poster said $100-$200 for an all in one copier. They should not expect a far more expensive machine designed for heavy office use.

I have a Samsung B&W laser and have had it for several years. I paid $99 for it.
I am thrilled with the quality and the low cost per print. I'm fairly certain it has been replaced. I expect if I looked it up, and reviews are still out there someone was unhappy with it. For one thing it is fairly large and if you need to reboot it there is no switch.
Truly simple, I have all my computer stuff plugged into a power strip with a spike protector and a switch for each socket. Suggestion, far as a power strip, my modem is on another switched outlet. Far easier than moving my heavy desk to get to it.

Opinions are like belly buttons, everyone has one...
 

I have a Canon Multi-function color laser printer. Had it about three years now and still functions perfectly. Makes beautiful pictures. Model MF634. As far as inkjets, I would not recommend an inkjet to my worst enemy. A B&W laser is a better buy at less that $100.
With my laser printer you can print strictly B&W with cheap replacement cartridges from Amazon or in color. I have replaced color carts once. You get what you pay for in life and in printers!:icon_wink:

Re: inks in all one cartridge.
I think my earliest printer Canon? was like that. The last ink jet that I had was HP and it was designed to not only do normal printing but photos as well. It took five separate inks. Typical of ink jets they used the ink to clean the heads. The ink was like $30 each.
It is sort of like cleaning the spray heads with gold. If I recall the printer cost me like $100 or $150. The companies likely lose money on every printer they sell. Not only the product but a fancy four color sell box. They make money on the ink. That HP, even if not used would eat up 30x5=150 a year in ink. Cost to print a photo on that machine you could send the picture to one of the labs, a drug store or one of the stationary stores and get a print that is far more water proof, better quality and cost less.

I have always bought the HP ink jet printers, but they usually only cost about $60. I prefer the ones that only use two cartridges, black and tri-color.

If you want economy, don't buy cheap
 

If you use your printer at all, your major consideration should be the cost of ink. I particularly avoid HP. HP means "high price". A $100 printer will eat you alive in replacement ink cartridges.

I am a member of a writers group and I print about 5 pages a day. After bleeding money paying for ink, I am now happy with the Epson ecotank printer. At about $300, One filling of Epson ink will print about as many pages as 80 HP ink cartridges. My printer is all-in-one, color, and wireless. It is not awfully fast, and does not have a sheet feeder. Setup and maintenance is fairly easy for a wireless printer.

I have had Hp, Epson, and Brother. Brother won. A workhorse duplex b/w printer with high capacity toner available. I don’t like to keep feeding the printer. My cost is pennies a page. This is my main printer. I have hL 5470dw but newer models capable of high capacity toners keep the operating costs lower and would be great for you. We have a small printer for occasional color and have photos printed at Walgreens and other businesses.

brother laser
 

I stopped buying ink jet over a decade ago.

Love our Brother 2680

It's only black and white, but was like $95 at walmart 4 years back.

Had a color Okidata laser that lasted over 10 years.

Cost per page is significantly higher with a laser printer compared to ink.

I used to work at Staples, we sold several brands. I always favored the HP 2-cartridge inkjet printers. One black, the second has the color.

Ink is dirt-cheap if you go the Instant Ink route. You pay by the page rather than how much ink you use. So you can print 100 full 4-color glossy photos on 8*10 photo paper, and pay the same amount per month that you'd pay for 100 black and white letters to family.

Instant Ink is an HP mail-order service. As long as your printer is connected via wifi, Instant Ink can tell how much ink is left in your printer, calculate the number of pages printed, and send you ink BEFORE you need it, right to your mailbox. It's an auto-pay service.

I pay $2.99/month to print 50 pages per month since I don't print much. If I don't print all 50 pages in a month, the leftover is carried over to the following month. You can stack up to 3 months' worth of leftover pages.

So right now, at the end of January, I've only printed 14 pages the whole month. And I have 150 pages in "rollover pages" I can use. Very handy for people who only print lots of stuff once or twice a year, and hardly ever print anything the rest of the year.

Also good for small businesses that do seasonal brochures and don't print receipts (if they use hand-written receipt books, or e-receipts, for instance).

Also great for people who print their own photographs.

For higher volume, you have options: up to 100 pages per month is $4.99. Up to 300 per month is 11.99. At 500 it goes up to $18.99. For 700, it's $24.99. And if you do heavy volume and print up to 1500 a month on a regular basis, it's $49.99/month.

If you only need it to print out a couple of coupons now and then, you can get up to 15 pages a month for only 99-cents per month.

This is only for wifi-connected HP photo jet ink printers. I have the HP Envy Photo 6455. It goes for around $150 at Staples. It doesn't have an auto-feeder, but the photo printing quality is really terrific.

HP5500 on
Amazon $99

HP Office Jet 3830
 

Print, fax, scan, copy

Great printer

Thanks All
 

I have decided to go with a HP inkjet all in one printer. Thanks for all the feedback!

Seems like HP is the overwhelming choice followed by Brother and Canon. I bought a very cheap Epson five years ago at Walmart for $40, the Epson 440, they now stock the 446 for $41. Still going strong, not a bit of trouble and I print and scan all the time.

Only one other poster mentioned Epson, knowing your price range, they have this Epson XP 4100 at Best Buy for $99, the Ocala store has it in stock and the Lady Lake store can have it in four days. The reviews are great, there are 1750 reviews and it's 4.2 stars out of 5. It uses the Epson 212 ink, which is $20 for a black cartridge and $38 for the 4 color pack.

If I was looking for a new printer, I've had HP and Canon and I don't believe they worked any better or even as good as my Epson. Keep Epson on your radar, they have a demo model of this at the Lady Lake store. If it works as good as my $40 Epson, for $99 this a good deal.

Best Buy Epson XP4100

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Here's a photo I took in 1976 of aircraft on display at an airshow at St. Petersburg-Clearwater Airport and I scanned it with my $40 Epson printer a year ago for my Facebook page.

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Walmart or Sam’s club my last one was a cannon with ink for under 100.00

I vote for Canon Pixma mx922, copy,fax,scan. Have had several HPs but this Canon is the best we have ever had. Never had any problem with is printer. Since we don’t do a lot of printing, we don’t really care about the cost of cartridges and price per page. Actually if we had a need for a large print job would probably go to Staples and have someone else do it. Just my 2 cents worth.

I have a Brother B&W printer that also scans....got it cheap with a sale and coupon from Staples as I need the toner printed sheets for my crafting. But we also have 2 Epson printer, one photo and 1 wide format. Love them both and they are workhorses. You can't tell the printed photos from ones gotten printed elsewhere on the 960 though more expensive so I only use when I need just a few. The big Epson is a WorkForce printer (model number starts with a WF), is probably 10 years old and still going strong. It is a multi-function printer and the wide format prints up to a 11x17 size paper which my husband needs for his work. It gets a good workout between the two of us and keeps going. Used to use HP all the time but since getting the Epsons we wouldn't go back since we seemed to be replacing the HPs every 3-4 years.

Sorry Epson 2650

In days of old, when I was working and had an ink jet printer Staples was not only cheaper but better and faster. At no extra charge their machine would put the pages in order and I think they would staple and hole punch for free. Cost per page quoted by some, is ink only, the paper cost 1.5 to 2 cents a page.

Other Considerations...
 

Under the title of "Things you need to know..."

1. When you print with an ink jet printer, there is a quality setting. Best, Normal, Draft. Draft will save you money on ink and will still look good.

2. Clogged heads will occur most often with 3rd party ink. I have had my HP ink jet sit for 2 years without printing, with the ink cartridges in it, and I plugged it in and it printed perfectly the first time. A lot of $$$ is spent by HP on ink formulations. This includes color reproduction, longevity of the print (especially for photos), and flow. It is not BS when they say to use real HP ink for the best quality printing.

3. Never clean the print heads unless there is something wrong with the quality of the print. As someone stated before, it uses (wastes) ink to do the printing.

We have a HP OfficeJet 5255. Prints, copies, scans, etc. We like it. We signed up for the ink package where they send you ink when you get low. They know when that is because HP is connected to your printer stats. What we discovered last year when we bought it was that you spend more buying printer carts in a year than what you pay for the printer. I think ours was on sale for $99 or something like that. We don’t buy printer carts anymore. We pay HP about $4 a month which gives us 50 pages per month. If you go over 50 pages, it’s 10 cents a page. If you print more than 50 every month, they have slightly higher packages. If I start getting low, HP has a new cart in the mail that arrives before I run out. I like HP products and I like the ink package they offer. Printers are all plastic now. That’s why they’re easy to find for $100. But the ink carts are a killer!!

I have Canon Pixma TS3122, new in the box. It is yours for $20.00.
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We use an HP Envy 5000 series all in one. Works great for us.

Need New Printer
 

I have 3 HP Printers for my two properties in TV and our condo in Dunedin (city not TV).
HP 3830 Office Jet All In One...HP4500 Office Jet All In One and HP2620. They copy, scan, send and receive faxes and contact wireless if you want. I have also used the HP Instant Ink Program for all three printers for the past 3 years. It's a great program and much cheaper than buying cartridges. HP Customer Support has also been very supportive and knowledgeable. I buy my printers from Staples and try to get one with the most features and the lowest price. They have sale promotions so check them out. I recommend HP products for their reliability and customer service. My three computers are also HP....also purchased from Staples.

I have a HP wireless printer that cost under $100 and I love it

Printer recommendation
 

I also had HP for years, but started having issues when I joined the instaink subscription. My son is an IT guy and said he has clients that have problems with HP and recommended Epson or Canon printers. I bought a new Canon from Amazon for under 150 and it is an all in one wireless air print. So far it’s great! I also found it very interesting when I went shopping for the new printer that HP dominated the shelves.. Sam’s didn’t have any others the day I was looking. Best Buy was closed, Target was sold out of all their printers and Walmart only had HP the day I went. It was about a week after Christmas, but still...so Amazon saved the day and delivered in two days!

As others have commented, I would never buy an inkjet again. You can go broke buying ink cartridges. (If you don't use the printer a lot the ink dries up. ARGH.)

My HP LaserJet 1012 is 15 years old. Cost ~ $100. Still works great. HP toner cartridges are pricey but I buy generic ones on Amazon that work fine. Last time I bought one (Fall 2017) it was $9.00 on Amazon. Up to $12.95 now. Rated for 2,000 pages.

Laser is the way to go!

Good luck with your purchase.

kathy

Many people have commented on cost of ink. You don't have to spend a fortune on ink. I originally had Epson ink jet machines. Now I have Brother ink jet printers. I did not want to use the high cost manufacturer's ink so I always bought ink on line. I often ran in to problems with the Epson machines which they blamed on the ink. I think they set their machines to malfunction with non-Epson ink. On the other hand, I've never had problems using on line supplier's ink with the Brother machines. I buy my ink from 1Ink.com. The cost is about $5/cartridge and they work just fine and last a long time.

I would suggest a Brother MFC (multi function copier) which will copy, scan and fax. Do make sure that the unit has at least three print settings (best, normal, draft/fast). I'd also suggest that you do not get a machine that has only two ink cartridges (black and multi-color). When one color runs out of the multi-color cartridge the whole thing has to be replaced wasting the other colors. When you buy a machine that takes four cartridges (black, magenta, cyan, yellow) you only replace the one that is used up.

I also find that on the rare occasion I need tech support, Brother has been very good, even for a machine that is years old, and I've never been charged. I recently bought a new computer and the drivers for the printer had to be installed. They walked me through the process which was easy/peasy!

One more thing, if the printer tells me the ink is low I find that I can print and print and print many, many pages before it finally stops before the ink cartridge is empty.

All in one: 2 sided color laser with scanner and copier. $299

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2 sided color laser. $229

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Replacement toner, low cost generic

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I just bought a Cannon PIXMA TS3322 for $44 @ Walmart. Small & works great. Wireless options.

I agree with everyone who said to stay away from inkjet printers AND who recommend HP. My HP laser is so old that the model is irrelevant; I bought it about 12 years ago for $100 (half price sale, had been $200) and it just keeps cranking away. I use it for faxing, as I send maybe two faxes a month. It's black only; I need color about twice a year, so I can take a document I need printed in color on a flash drive to any store that offers this service. On the other hand, I scan more frequently, so for my convenience I have a separate Canon scanner. Don't pay for features that you will use infrequently. I buy toner cartridges online for about $40 each, and they last for an amazing number of pages (depending, of course, on how much ink is used on each page). Read reviews and keep an eye out for sales.

I have a HP Laser Jet 4000N
 

Tony has a HP 4000N printer available.

Call or visit him for details. He's near Tamarind Grove.

Thanks!

A lot of you are recommending printers that aren't "all in ones." If it's all in one, then it's assumed he'll want color photos since that's one of the things that makes it "all" instead of "a couple" or "just three out of five." He wants color, fax, copy, scan. Probably duplex as well. The Cannon Pixma can do all that for a reasonable price. If you want a COLOR laser-jet printer, you'll be spending more than his budget and you STILL have to shell out for the toners, because laser printers don't come with full toner cartridges. They come with just enough to get you set up and test the printer to make sure it works (usually around 50 pages total).

Color toner is VERY expensive. And, with a color laser printer, you have to buy a cartridge for each color.

With an inkjet or photojet printer - you have options. Some have all the colors except for black in a single color cartridge, so you only have to buy 2 cartridges at most (black, and color). Some are refillable (such as certain Epson and Brother printers), and you just buy the tube of pigment and squeeze it into the cartridge. Messy, but less expensive.

And HP has that instant ink program, which makes it very inexpensive, and you never run out, and you never have to go to the store to buy more, and you pay per page, no matter how much or how little ink is used on the page. So if you're into a lot of color photos or color print jobs, instant ink is MUCH less expensive than any other option.

Also as an FYI - if you use generic or off-label inks or toners for your fancy new printer, your warranty is immediately void. So if the printer breaks in the first year normally covered by warranty, you're looking at buying a brand new printer.

Each printer manufacturer makes their cartridges to work exclusively with their own printers. Knock-offs don't always use the same ink. Some of them are remanufactured, which means the print heads are not new - they just refill old ones and clean off the outer shell and put new labels on them. The #1 reason why ink printers break - is because people use remanufactured ink, or try to refill cartridges that aren't meant to be refilled.

- Google "best printers."
- Pick website/store & sort by price
- Note the one(s) you're interested in
- Pick a different website/store until you find the printer you like at the best price.

Brother printers use an ink drum that can get you thousands of sheets printed. If you need color, they might not be an option.

Very happy with this HP product line. Vast improvement over previous model. Completely new form.

The setup is much less complicated.

HP OfficeJet Pro 8025e All-in-One Printer w/ 6 months free ink through HP Plus (1K7K3A#B1H)

Look at cost of ink cartridges. Company's almost sell printer at cost, but to replace the ink is 1/2 the cost of the printer.

Epson Ecotank. Initially more expensive but you will save hundreds of dollars not having to buy expensive ink cartridges. Have the one below and there are new models. Have not had to buy ink for years and when I do it is much less than one cartridge.

Epson WorkForce ET-4550 EcoTank All-in-One Printer | Product Exclusion | Epson US

Printer
 

Always Hewlett-Packard (HP)...always.