About to throw away my new printer. damnit!

[Floris]

I have always been in love with HP printers, and after years my last one broke, so I got a new one. I just go the Mac Pro and noticed in the store a cool looking silver (matching mac pro) colored HP printer.

I don't need much from my printer, but it simply has to work on those basic things, and it does not. And I am now a mac fan boy, so I am used of unpacking, plugging it in, and it having it to "just work". I am tired of trying.

It's a HP Deskjet 5940

I can get it to work just fine, it prints, etc. But.. photoshop files are out of color, but this changes, it doesn't consistent change color, I';ve played hours with color calibration from various angles (from os, monitor, photoshop and printer driver and combinations).

But it are the little things like printing a web page, and it only prints the images, and no text. Or only half the page.

The stupid printer also takes 0, 2 or 5 papers, instead of 1.

Since I hardly print, I have it for a while now, returning it to the store is no longer an option.

Odly enough, textmate printing is just fine. (because textmate is awesome).

Maybe I should just get a new one and give this to someone in my family, they're on Windows, so they're used to things not working. Not me..

 

[pjarvi]

HP has been going downhill for well over the last 10 years. Go with Epson instead, that's the only brand our Marketing department will use.

 

[MisterMe]

I have always been in love with HP printers, and after years my last one broke, so I got a new one. I just go the Mac Pro and noticed in the store a cool looking silver (matching mac pro) colored HP printer.

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I'm with pjarvi on this one. Several years ago, I had the opportunity to buy a HP DeskJet 1220C, one of the last HP printers that didn't suck. I will not buy a more recent model HP. Currently, I swear by Xerox. Many Mac users have good experiences with Brother. I have heard of problems with Epson ink cartridges. I recommend that you investigate this issue before you buy an inkjet from any manufacturer.

 

[synth3tik]

I have an HP 9800, but once I up grade I will be getting an Epson.

 

[MK2007]

All you really have to know is for lasers buy an HP and for inkjets buy an Epson. Use that rule and it's unlikely you'll ever go wrong.

 

[MisterMe]

.... Use that rule and it's unlikely you'll ever go wrong.

Except for the HP laser printer part. HP laser printers are slow and they suck. There was a time when HP laser printers were good, but that was a long time ago.

 

[bld44]

Except for the HP laser printer part. HP laser printers are slow and they suck. There was a time when HP laser printers were good, but that was a long time ago.

As someone who just bought a new HP laserjet a few months ago, I couldn't even remotely agree with you.

 

[MisterMe]

As someone who just bought a new HP laserjet a few months ago, I couldn't even remotely agree with you.

Perhaps I should amend my previous post. My Xeroxes are much faster and suck much less than my department's HPs. OK?

 

[THX1139]

I'm on my 3rd Epson (Photo R260), and it's the worst one I've bought. I drinks ink like koolaid. I recently replaced the cartridges (all 6 of them!) and it costs almost as much as buying a new printer. The color is okay, but printing grayscale or black and white is terrible! Prints too dark, contrasty and has a strange color cast that is impossible to eliminate even when tweaking in Photoshop. It prints text and logos fine, but forget about anything else. I would have returned it, but I bought it at Compusa and they went out of business.

Although this printer is less than a year old, I'm looking for another one. I need something that does a nice job printing black and white and doesn't cost a fortune to feed it.

 

[Osarkon]

I've had 5 Epson's give up the ghost on me, so I went and bought a HP PSC 2115 a few years ago, and it's still going strong even though it's been through a lot. Sure it's old, but it just keeps going, and that's all I need.

I'll still recommend HP, my dad's new one works without problems as well.

I've gone through two Xerox printers as well, they both died pretty quick.