Printer recommendations?

[pbray]

Many years ago, flushed with success after selling my first book, I purchased an HP inkjet printer. As I recall it was on sale for $399.

Pause. Blink. $399. A bargain at the time.

It still works, but it's slow. The input paper tray holds a maximum of 100 sheets, and the output tray needs to be emptied if there are more than 50 sheets in it, otherwise they begin spewing all over the floor. Normally this isn't an issue, except for the times when I need to print an entire manuscript. As happened recently, when I needed to print off not one by three copies, which meant an entire evening of babysitting the printer.

I'm now toying with the idea of purchasing a laser printer. Any thoughts or recommendations? I thought about it last year but was lazy and never got around to making a decision. But the prices of B&W laser printers have come down so much that it's really foolish not to have one.

Comments

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

I paid $469 (Canadian) for my Canon Bubblejet in about 1994. It quit working a number of years ago, and we've been printer-less since.

My mom (a freelance editor) has the same printer we have here in the office, which is an HP 1320N. She loves it, and I love ours. It will print double-sided, which I love because I save so much paper that way, and it's pretty fast, considering. The only problem I have with it is that it doesn't beep when it runs out of paper, so sometimes it sits there blinking its little orange light for a while before anyone notices. But basically it's a great machine.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Hee! I had a Canon Bubblejet way back in the day--around 1993 or 1994. It was a great printer but after a couple of years (and many copies of the first two novels) it started misfeeding sheets, so I replaced it with the HP Deskjet.

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

I think my mistake was trying to refill the ink cartridges ...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I had a friend who used to refill her cartridges. Watching her do it convinced me I should never try this at home :-)

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

See, I thought the refilling process was rather good fun.

But the printer never worked quite as well after I started doing that ...

[pbray.livejournal.com]

I figured it was a good way to wind up wearing toner :-)

[sylvia-rachel.livejournal.com]

Well, yeah, that too ;)

Of course, since becoming a parent I have learned to enjoy wearing all kinds of even more interesting things ...