What is the best color printer for home use? Or what is the best brand of printers for in home use?

Question

I had an epson stylus c60-color. It is good then all of sudden when I turned it on, it started making noises! I took it out and checked it out. It was a little black piece inside that just broke! I don't know how that happened ???!!!! :(
So I need a new one now. Looking for a very good quality color printer for printing reports, essays and some pictures. Mostly will be used it for school reports.
What is the best brand for a home use printer at a reasonable price---not so very expensive?

Thanks a lot! :)

Answer 1

I used HP InkJets for years, until they started making them cheap with poor quality. So I've switch to Canon. Here's why.

1. Color is awesome. I know professional photographers that swear by the color.
2. The ink is cheapter. Get a model with the three separate colors. You won't waste ink when just one color runs out.
3. Canon inkjet printer pauses for you to change an empty cartridge, then resumes printing.
4. The Canon printers that I have seen, seem very reliable. The paper feeds well, and keeps on working. With the Canon that I am actually using, I've never had a paper jam, like my old HP would sometimes have.

It isn't the cost of the printer that kills you, it's the ink.

Go to STAPLES and look for the Canon PIXMA iP4300

Here is what it looks like at NewEgg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16828102038

Good luck and Happy Computing!

Answer 2

Check in the area of the HP and Canon, you can get a low cost HP printer for under $50. All printers will print photos these days.

As a word of advice, when buying a printer the most important thing you can do is Price out the consumables. IE the ink. You are looking from the highest capacity cartridge at the lowest price. I personally am a big fan of the HP 56 cartridge and Canon PG-40. Both give you a lot of printers for you money.

Answer 3

I like HPs where the paper lays flat. HPs tend to get a lot more printouts per of ink cartridge than Epson or Cannon and the printers that the paper stands up in tend to feed multiple pages a lot when they get a little old. Best Buy usually has little boxes on the display printers that will print you a test page to look at.
The price of the printer is not much compared to the price of the ink you'll use over the years.

Answer 4

I've had an Epson that got clogged print heads (so never again) and my family has a Lexmark that they don't like. Lots of friends have HP printers and they're pretty reliable. That's what we're buying next time.

If you find one you like, be sure to go to www.pricegrabber.com to compare prices. I'm giving you a link to HP below, so you can see the different types of printers, but their prices are usually full retail.

Answer 5

I like HP because of the excellent support both on line chat and by telephone. I have not found this with other printers and warranties are good. They come in all price ranges.

Answer 6

hp is best in my opinion and very reliable.
qulaity is good in prints also