On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 02:47:47PM -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Tue, July 11, 2017 2:20 pm, Michael Hennebry wrote:
I have a hp photosmart C3180 all-in-one and am well and truly sick of it. It seems like every time I go on another printing binge, I need yet another print cartridge. hp-clean doesn't help. IIRC this use it or lose it "feature" is common to inkjets.
What should I replace it with? If I want a non-cloggging printer, is laser jet the way I need to go? I'd like to do color occasionally, but might not want to pay the price for a color laser.
I would go with inexpensive HP color laser printer. Laser printers can sit for long time without use, without degrading, once you need it, it will work.
Another +1 for laser. My wife does editing and had a need for fast printing of large documents including color for comments etc. We went with a large Ricoh printer about 10 years ago. Still in use after about 300,000 pages.
At the time we had a PhotoJet for printing pictures. The quality of the laser prints was sufficient for our needs so the PJ sits in a closet.
One thing that helps the appearance of laser printed photos is to use a heavy, high gloss paper.
Jon