Gimmee Another 5 Years And I Might Actually Get Something Good, Like A Canon
So months ago my all-in-one printer decided it wasn't going to talk to my PC anymore, and after a few days of half heartedly trying to make them kiss and make up and one full afternoon of deleting, reinstalling drivers, and fuck all else I could think of, I gave up on it.
My basic work around was to connect the fucker to my netbook and print off of that, but even now I've reached a point where that was significantly shitty, and so I just broke down and bought a new one.
The old one was a Lexmark and we use Lexmarks at work, where they're usually fucked up, so naturally that is the last fucking brand I wanted this go around. Alot of Cnet and Amazon user review praise was going for Epson, in a "pretty good for regular people use" sorta way, so that's what I got. Yay, 2 sided printing! Now I don't have to flip the paper over to print RPG character sheets!
Sadly, that's really about the only reason for me personally to own a printer...
The thing worth mentioning though, in that as far as researching this, I can't see how anyone could narrow down what kind of printer actually meets their printing needs. "Best" categorizing seems almost meaningless to me. I mean, if you're using it for business, the requirements for you are vastly different from someone wanting to print out high quality pictures on photo paper. And I'm really unsure who the hell is just browsing for the industrial size office type copier/printer/fax machines. Like I would assume the ones the size of washing machines would warrant their own category. They could be referred to as "big printers" or something.
My basic work around was to connect the fucker to my netbook and print off of that, but even now I've reached a point where that was significantly shitty, and so I just broke down and bought a new one.
The old one was a Lexmark and we use Lexmarks at work, where they're usually fucked up, so naturally that is the last fucking brand I wanted this go around. Alot of Cnet and Amazon user review praise was going for Epson, in a "pretty good for regular people use" sorta way, so that's what I got. Yay, 2 sided printing! Now I don't have to flip the paper over to print RPG character sheets!
Sadly, that's really about the only reason for me personally to own a printer...
The thing worth mentioning though, in that as far as researching this, I can't see how anyone could narrow down what kind of printer actually meets their printing needs. "Best" categorizing seems almost meaningless to me. I mean, if you're using it for business, the requirements for you are vastly different from someone wanting to print out high quality pictures on photo paper. And I'm really unsure who the hell is just browsing for the industrial size office type copier/printer/fax machines. Like I would assume the ones the size of washing machines would warrant their own category. They could be referred to as "big printers" or something.