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Originally Posted by funola
Anyway, I need a WIFI printer that won't run out of ink prematurely. With Black Friday coming what is a good inkjet printer (not Canon) that is affordable and reliable with affordable replacement ink cartridges?
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None of them. Such a beast does not exist.
Color laserjet is so inexpensive now compared with just a few years ago, there's no reason to downgrade to an inkjet any more. Yes laser costs a little more up front, but they are work horses that turn out thousands of pages without blinking. HP makes some good ones, and have been in the laser printer business for decades. Consumer inkjets are tinkertoys that break when you look at them funny, have obscenely expensive printing costs because you get a scant few pages out of each expensive cartridge, and they're rated for a pathetic duty cycle, so they crap out and break after even modest home use.
Also, you don't want built in wifi. It's typically poorly implemented, with poor range, and difficult to configure. Not to mention that wifi standards change every couple of years, so even while the printer works perfectly, it won't be compatible with future wireless network technology. Better to get a "network ready" printer, where you insert a LAN module. The HP JetDirect comes to mind. It's a wired Ethernet port, that you can attach to a small wireless bridge. Down the road when you upgrade your wireless network, you simply upgrade the printer's wireless bridge - no need to toss the whole printer.
I bought my HP laserjet in 2006 when I worked for HP and got a good employee discount. It's still working flawlessly today, more than a decade later, and I print around 1000 pages a year on it. It has a 10/100 JetDirect Ethernet adapter in it, which I have plugged into an inexpensive wireless bridge. I've upgraded the wireless bridge 3 times now over the years, from "B", to "G", to "N" wireless technology. The printer doesn't know the difference, and I get the latest wireless connection for my workhorse printer, at a very small cost.