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And I even sold my antique daisy wheel printer at a garage sale two years ago.
Lately, I've found it less expensive to buy a new ink jet printer with cartridges included than to buy replacement cartridges.
I'm getting buried in printers. How 'bout the rest of you?
Tell me about it. I'm sitting here staring at a color ink jet that would cost less to replace than buy cartridges for.
Other than that 1 HP laser and one vintage HP 500 inkjet that just wouldn't die. Si I keep it around for the fond memories.
I hauled a few others to the recycler last year.
I do however have a stack of 286 and up boxes downstairs that I'm hoarding just in case they come back in style :)
I'd still be using that old clunker, which I used with the 8088 that's still under the bed, but it just can't handle the speed of Windows printing. If I knew how to set it uni-directional to slow down the printing I'd go back to it in a flat second. I've even thought of trying to get the 8088 up and running again, I loved that relic.
one laser that I am too cheap to buy toner for($80.00)
one canon inkjet that is brand new and is free after the rebate
one HP in the basement that would require 60 dollars of print cartridges.
The roomate has a nice hp photo printer that I bought ink for when I had to use it...I still have the ink and the reciept and may return it($27)
So now we have two working scanners... I suppose there are worse problems you can have.
But man, just you try getting correct, updated drivers out of a company, unless you're trying to return the product. Jeesh. Is it just company policy to post incorrect drivers on the website?
Now my home desk is much cleaner.
Ok, so I have one at work, but I am using it to collect dust, as often as possible.
DaveN
If the gurus of the business world wonder why people aren't spending on technology, tell them to stop making cruddy junk!
I'm fed up with these disposable inkjet printers and expensive ink refills. Not one of them has been reliable at all, not even from HP! They've all been pieces of utter and absolute rubbish! So if I need to print anything it'll be on someone else's computer.
Best "late model" printer I ever has was a 1993 Apple LW310 (8 ppm) laser. It weighed a ton. It was very slow. But it never broke down and always did a fantastic job.
Before that I used to have one of the old dot-matrix imagewriters from Apple (not to be confused with the Imagewriter, spelled with a capital "I"). Man, that thing just never quit! I sure miss it!
Just gave away the old broken Laserjet to a very bright inventor who just may be able to fix it.
Beth
I bought a new still-in-box printer off a friend last week for about half retail price (she used some points scheme or something and then found out her old computer didn't have a USB connection), and in the same move fobbed off my six years old Canon which didn't need a USB connection to her.
My last one was a Panasonic laser printer with an HP emulation mode. I bought the thing refurbished, again for less than an inkjet would have cost. It lasted 5 years, and would have made it longer if I could have found a place to buy replacement parts.
One of these days I'll get myself a nice HP LJ5 or such and probably be set for a couple decades. Tell me again why I'd buy an inkjet?
