Yeah, my main sentiment with printers (and scanners) is to always buy HP. You won't save money, but the reliability has always been far better. I grew up always having an HP laserjet II, and took it for granted... They print, they tell you when you've got a paper jam, and by god, when they say they've got a paper jam there's actualy a paper burried in there where it might take you two days to find, but it's there. We've since moved on to the new $1000 model ("business" expense, luckily) and all I've ever had to do with it is install the drivers and add paper.

At college I use an HP ink jet, and it's been a great printer. The ink cartriges are expensive, but I don't print enough to go through them. It goes months without being used but always works... At $225 or so, it cost doubble what a generic ink jet costs, but it was worth it...

I've had cannon and epsom ink jets, and neither worked half as well... Now if only I could justify a nice color laser jet...

Matthew