![]() A quick search of the internet will bag you dozens of Printer Show Downs and comparisons This is great but when I need a printer I need it now and not after waiting several days for an online order. Inkjets, All-in-one, Laser, the choices are staggering. Hummm, something wrong here! Besides, that’s not, “they’re all the sameâ€, that’s exactly three times the cost of my current ink cartridges from HP which are considered relatively high priced. ![]() The printer was selling for $249.99 with cartridges included. I persisted until he pointed me to the bottom shelf where I choose the four cartridges needed. His reply was â€they are all about the sameâ€. I immediately asked the sales person how much the refills were. On a recent trip to Remaining Nameless, I picked out what seemed to be a reasonably priced All-In-One printer. I always laughed when I heard someone say, “what the heck, I could buy a whole new printer for what it costs to buy ink cartridges”, but guess what? They are right. Every time my printer works I feel like I won the lottery. Ha-ha, yeah I’m exaggerating, but not by much. If I add up the cost of Ink, paper, electricity to print and shred excess pages, and the cost of a single gallon of gas to replace the cartridges every other week it comes to $11.76 per page. No matter how many times I change it to Draft Mode (less ink used), it changes itself back. I usually get about 4 pages per cartridge this way. This means it takes 4 ½ minutes to print one page and uses about 3lbs of ink per inch. Another one of it’s favorite tricks is to print in “Best†mode. My old HP 750xi prints 15 pages when all I wanted was the one page showing on my screen. Most of us have experienced printer problems. My mission here is not to do a run down of everything available but to offer what I consider the best of the best for differing needs. ![]() Today I’m looking at printers for consumers and small businesses.
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