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Old 06-24-2016, 12:13 AM   #5
Jmac
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Without really knowing anything about it, my first thought reading through that page is that they expect you to print a lot, so I'd have concerns with printhead issues down the road if you're not printing the 150+ pages/month they're referencing in their propaganda.

I know when I worked in retail, our vendors were always pushing us to sell more inkjets (HP especially) because they make more money on ink than they do on toner. And we always had more satisfied customers with lasers than ink (exception: Samsung color laser pieces of garbage). After the disasters that were HP's business inkjets (promised to be less expensive per print compared to laser; many of our clients ended up switching back to laser after 2-3 cartridge sets. Realtors found the ink would run if wet despite HP's colorfastness claims.) and Lexmark's Pro series ($5.99 black cartridges with promise that printer could print black w/o colour; Lexmark shortly thereafter bumped the price up and released a firmware update that prevented black only printing. On top of that, printheads would crack and spill ink everywhere; Lexmark refused to cover under warranty), I'm pretty gunshy when it comes to high-volume inkjets that try to compete with lasers (and vendors tried to get us to push instead of lasers). That said, it's been nearly 5 years since I worked in retail, so the game may have changed, but I doubt it.

I'd rather grab a laser for my day-to-day printing and a separate printer for photos (dye sub if all you want is 4x6, inkjet if larger prints are required), but space may be a factor. Even cheap inkjets did decent photos 5 years ago; they should be even better now. Not professional quality or anything, but certainly adequate for scrapbooking.

I've been running the same colour laser since 2005; never changed a cartridge, Canon still supports it with drivers (Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10. Including 64-bit versions). Best $150 I ever spent.

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