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Mac Hammer Fan

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A lady I am helping a bit with her computer is working with Monterey on a 2015 MacBook Pro. She wants to purchase an all in one printer that prints photos well. I did some browsing on the Internet but am still amazed at the large number of people who are not satisfied with their purchase when I read the ratings.
I finally found these two: HP Envy Photo Inspire 7220 and Canon PIXMA TS6350a
Is there anyone here who has experience of one of those two or maybe can give me another suggestion?
TIA
 
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Avoid HP. Their ink marketing practices are the absolute worst in the industry. You have to use their ink or the printer won’t work. The printer stops working if the ink is expired. The scanner will not operate without ink in the printer. They try to force you to subscribe to ink delivery. Firmware updates forces a subscription to ink delivery (although this was overturned after a lawsuit)
 
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I mostly have used Brother and Canon printers and the last time I used an HP Printer was almost 10 years ago; so with modern HP printers, I can't comment much on reliability. My experience with Canon printers is that they are very reliable, same with Brother. I've also used Oki printers, but Oki is no longer operating or selling in the USA.

There's been a trend with new Eco-Tank (Epson) and MegaTank (Canon) printers, being cost-effective for ink and price-per-print and these particular models can also print photographs. I believe these printers are sometimes aimed at crafters who like to print paper-arts at home without being raked over the coals for ink.

I think the Canon Pixma G4210 is a good buy, it can copy, print, scan, fax, and also has a ADF (automatic document feeder) as well as mobile printing. It does not do auto-duplex though, but as with any printer you can do manual duplexing. There are more expensive options that do auto-duplex, and the ADF feature is only good if you want to scan large stacks of paper. I prefer to have ADFs as a separate machine all together, and for those the Fuji ScanSnap is world class (paper, brochures, receipts, taxes, etc... ) and great for book keeping.

Both of the choices you've selected are good enough, but even Canon ink replacements (although cheaper than most of their competitors) can become quite expensive.

If there is going to be a lot of printing being done, I say go with their larger and cost effective ink replacement lines; if not, then I think the current selection you have is fine.
 
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