I had both Epson and HP printers, the epson always had shitty software that gave problems and it barely works on linux (not the scanner tho). The HP is a bit better but thats all. Dell printers, well we have one of the big laser ones at the office and I spent an entire day trying to get it to print something. The damn thing would only print from the preview app on a mac, what the hell kind of bug is that? I been hearing good things about Canon but never had one, any opinions on that?
Depends on what you need to print. I have a cheap Brother laser printer and love it, but thats black and white.
Get a brother laser. Network printer or wireless and prints from a myriad of devices. Easy to refill, as it only uses a cog instead of a chip. The cog can be reset. My color laser uses >1 watt on standby. I did a long long search for a good, easy to refill laser. Hl-3075CW There are newer ones now, but I have not researched them. $250-279
Epson, Brother and Canon are the brands I would choose if I was to buy a new printer. Forget HP, all the HP kit I have owned/experienced has been junk. Lexmark is worse than HP.
