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DirtDog

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If ur ever in the market for a new printer...don't buy a brother. I bought one from best buy and so far its the worst printer I've ever owned. If it doesn't have a color cartridge in it won't even scan documents to my computer. *****y designed operating system on it. Its a pain to use. Won't say connected to router sometimes and I even have it hard wired in. And ink is so much more expensive for it than any other printer I've owned. Never again

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I have an EPSON cx5000 I baught years ago when Cuircut City was still around, it was $60, and has been a good printer/scanner/copyer. Ink is stupid expensive of course, but it has been reliable, even after sitting for some time it still works, some printers dont like to sit for a long time, I think the ink dries up and causes problems, that is what happend to an HP printer I had before I got the Epson.
 
I'd never buy a Brother. Everything about them is expensive.
HP always made great laser printers.
HP currently makes terrible inkjet printers (old ones still work fine).
For ink, I'd probably go Canon.
 
Yea I used to have an HP...7 years old when it bit the dust and everything for it worked great. I bought this one cause it was on sale and supposedly had the features on it that I wanted only to find out if I didn't have the stupid expensive cartridges for color I couldn't use any of the features on the damn thing

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Had a similar experience a few years ago. They put a chip or something in the ink cartridge that the software authenticates. If you try to save a few bucks on their overpriced ink either with refilled cartridges or non-name cartridges, the software will shut down for bootleg ink and make you all tech support to unlock. Never again for me either.
 


Burbman said:
Had a similar experience a few years ago. They put a chip or something in the ink cartridge that the software authenticates. If you try to save a few bucks on their overpriced ink either with refilled cartridges or non-name cartridges, the software will shut down for bootleg ink and make you all tech support to unlock. Never again for me either.
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Actually, you think of it like a grenade... or a fuel tank. Refill at 1/4 full. When it goes empty, an electronic fuse/trigger burns up, setting the flag. As long as it's never empty, the flag is never set.
 
Brother is known in the industry as junk.

Epson, xerox and the other higher ends at the best. Hp is good on most occassions
 


So for a personal printer/ copier what would everyone recommend

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I really meant to try out Canons cheapo AIOs while I had company funds to burn. New HP software (bloaty) and AIO inkjet printers blow (junk, buggy hardware), though their lasers are sweet.
Canon, Epson, Xerox, maybe Konika?
Honestly, inkjets reviews tend to vary wildly from one model to the next. Unless someone's got a specific model to recommend, you'll have to do your research.
 
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