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 -- Jon H. LaBadie jon at jgcomp.com 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (703) 935-6720 (C)