OT: suggest a printer
Hey guys, I need some wise opinions from helpful people, and that sort of thing is in short supply world-wide, especially in regards to the topic at hand: Computer Printers.
My sister got a Lexmark X75 scanner/printer included with her Dell laptop. And it sucks. Truly. An ink hog, and cartridges are 35 USD$. We changed them, but, it doesn't recognize them. And the "printer driver" is this big invasive "command center" program which insists on loading, even if I uninstall it.
All this is par for the course with modern inkjet printers, but if you're using a printer you love, I'd like to hear about it.
She uses her printer to print up a copy of the quiz or exam for the classes she teaches. Which she then brings to school, photocopies it up on the school's nickel, and distributes to the class. She doesn't need a high dpi, true color, printed right to the border on photo quality paper output. Which is the only sort of thing CNET.com seems to think people at home are interested in. And business users only care about bluetooth enabled, high networking capability, at least, according to every review I've read. Nobody, apparently, just prints stuff out, to read offline, anymore.
Now as for me, I've got a Samsung ML1710. A nice, simple laser printer. No frills, works great, and dirt cheap (refurbished ~60 USD$). I probably should just get her one like mine. But, I'm open to any other ideas.
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