This appliance has been reliable (that's RELIABLE with no qualifications) since 1995. HP emailed to let me know about a driver update six years after I bought it. Moved with me to Mac OS X. Just works well, quiet, superb print quality, toner costs are OK for a low-volume printer. Appears flimsy but has survived envelope printing by verry drunk user. Print speed and toner-life are just what it says on the box, once you understand that ppm tells you about the engine and not the warming and RIPping. The printer box has been ticked for a while, and I would buy HP again, though probably a heftier machine.
The rather dubious policies of the inkjet vendors (cheap printer expensive ink) the whole are hard to pin on any single firm: that's the competitive environment they work in. Imagine what would happen to a firm that decided to reverse the formula by going for expensive-printer-cheap ink. We would praise them but they would never sell any printers.
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This appliance has been reliable (that's RELIABLE with no qualifications) since 1995. HP emailed to let me know about a driver update six years after I bought it. Moved with me to Mac OS X. Just works well, quiet, superb print quality, toner costs are OK for a low-volume printer. Appears flimsy but has survived envelope printing by verry drunk user. Print speed and toner-life are just what it says on the box, once you understand that ppm tells you about the engine and not the warming and RIPping. The printer box has been ticked for a while, and I would buy HP again, though probably a heftier machine.
The rather dubious policies of the inkjet vendors (cheap printer expensive ink) the whole are hard to pin on any single firm: that's the competitive environment they work in. Imagine what would happen to a firm that decided to reverse the formula by going for expensive-printer-cheap ink. We would praise them but they would never sell any printers.