I'm going to buy a printer, What brand should I get?
By emilieespino
@emilieespino (963)
Philippines
December 17, 2006 3:09am CST
What brand could you recommend to me? I want to buy a colored printer. Please do suggest.
21 responses
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
They say that canon is also good. But thanks anyway for the information. I am still choosing between canon and HP.
@14missy (3183)
• Australia
17 Dec 06
I have got a canon bubblejet printer. It scans and photocopies as well and only cost about $100 (australian)That is pretty good and the cartridges are reasonably cost effective.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Is the bubble jet printer also an inkjet type? Or is it more like a laser?
@epizzahut (2078)
• China
17 Dec 06
I suggest hp. or canon but epson. mine is epson,it is really bad, it is out of order all the time besides with bad servece.
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@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Well I think that rules out Epson. Thanks for sharing your experience with your printer. I would not want that to happen to me.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thanks for the information. I will try to gather some more data.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thank you for your advice but I am choosing between a canon and HP.
@bbboricua03 (183)
• United States
17 Dec 06
What are you going to be printing?
I have two HP Printers, and I personally love them (however, I own a Mac, not a PC, so that may make a difference).
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@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
17 Dec 06
Well I think HP Printers are good. But I think the ink costs a lot doesn't it? Is the resolution quite good for printing photos? But most of the time I will just be printing documents.
@ssh123 (31073)
• India
17 Dec 06
First you have to decide whether you want inkjet (inexpensive), laserjet (slightly expensive), dot matrix ( expensive but durable and less recurring cost).
I have HP's deskjet which costs around $100 and catridge is the expensive. You have to buy both colour and black and white to put the printer into best use and it costs $50 for two.
Laster jet printer is expensive and catridge is almost same as inkjet.
cheapest is dotmatrix (printer costs more), but ribbon is $2 and its lasts 500 pages of A4 page and refill is $1.
For high quality resolutions, laser is best, but cost?
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thanks for the information. I might just get an inkjet printer because a laser printer cost much. But I don't think that there are available dot matrix printers nowadays. I think they are already obsolete. Thanks again and have a nice day!
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thanks for your advice. I might just get canon. Have a nice day!
@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
18 Dec 06
I have a Epson 800. It's fantastic. A little expensive, but a fine printer, one of the best.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It's only for personal use. I only print photos sometimes because they cost too much ink to print.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Most of the guys here recommend either canon or HP. I am still choosing which one.
@saradarath (467)
• India
17 Dec 06
i think it depends on your need.If you need more documents to be printed then go for hp,if you need quality pictures then go for canon
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
I might just take your advice and go for a canon printer. Thanks for responding to the discussion.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thank you for the information but I'm choosing between an hp or canon.
@abhiroop85 (2826)
• Scottsdale, Arizona
17 Dec 06
i have canon,i am using it for past 2 years,but now i am planning to buy a hp.both of these brands i know and i trust.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Do you think cannon is better than HP? They say that cannon is better? Is it true?
@Opteron (1842)
• Italy
17 Dec 06
I think you should buy a Canon printer. They are cheaper than HP or Epson ones, quality is great, they are fastest than others. When you buy a cartdrige or inkjet it's expensive and maybe you can recharge too your cartdrides! I own a beautiful Canon IP 4000 that prints on cd-rom and dvd-r too!
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Thank you for sharing that information about canon. I will try to check their models and maybe compare it with HP. I am now trying to choose between canon and HP.
@hmike_d (1529)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
i would rather recommend HP Printer. Be it an inkjet or a laser. I've been using HP printers for almost a decade. in my office im using a hp color laserjet... it's magnificient!... then, an all-in-one series PSC (Printer/Scanner/Copier) is being used by myself in my home, it's cool. HP has lots of features to economize ink/toner! GO!
@rinaaus (1201)
• Australia
17 Dec 06
if you want best pictures, go for Epson.
if you want reasonable price, you can go for HP.
@emilieespino (963)
• Philippines
27 Dec 06
Does Epson printers use a lot of ink? Their printers are also reasonable.
@discodaisy (168)
• United States
27 Dec 06
I've owned three HP's and have loved them. The ink (color and Black) is very reasonable price wise.
I'd highly recommend HP.