actually not just a printer.. but preferably an all-in-one inkjet. the brother mfc5100 that i have now has an error that would cost $150 to fix (and i payed only 200 to start with).... anyways i know that a lot of new printers are making cartridges with chips that make them harder and harder to refill (or buy "compatible" cartridges)... i've heard that canon's are easiest to refill/buy generics and the specific one i'm looking at is the Canon MP390 or the Canon MP730. any advice would be appreciated, thanks
go with a laser printer. i personally have two samsung 1710 and 1740's both i got for under 100 bucks look in your officedepot/max ads, the price of these laser printers are dropping fast plus you can print nearly 4000 times without changing the cartridge. the samsungs btw have a toner saver option, which is simply splendid.
Samsung makes the most badass printers out there. I love them. I haven't used the inkjets (do they even make inkjets?) though, so I can't speak to those. I'm not a big HP printer fan any more, but I would recommend the PSC 1210 (and the related 12XX models). It's cheap, reliable, easy to use, prints well, and is very compact. The only thing that I hate about it is the driver is garbage, but hey, that seems to be the way HP does things now . . .
Brother makes a cheap laser also, refill toner is about $60, but still, you get tons of prints... If you go with inkjet, be sure to check out the cost of media... that can be a killer.
I second the Samsung recommendations. I love my laser. Fast and pain free. Why get a all-in-one? Scanners are so cheap these days, as are fax machines. If you do them seperately, there's less that can go wrong. Minimize complexity. I rather get a $100 Samsung laser and like a $50 scanner.
