I'm a huge Samsung printer fan. I have one of their lowest-end laser printers, and I've been using it for at least two years, and it replaced another one of their lowest-end printers that lasted me plenty of time too. They perform solidly, and the printer driver is lightweight.

I will never again recommend an HP printer. I think their hardware is pretty darn good, but their software is an utter failure. I haven't seen a model yet - multifuntion or otherwise - that didn't require a 15 minute-long software installation. That's absurd. Even if they do feel the need to install a bunch of photo software or something on your machine, it shouldn't take as long as it does.

In the past week alone, I've seen three instances where someone's HP printer install got screwed up, resulting in second copies of their printers. The problem is some programs will still print to the first copy, which the computer thinks is offline. The only solution when this happens is to go through a painful uninstall of their horrid software, and reinstall it all over again. Ugh.