I will never buy another HP printer. The quality is merely adequate, and the software might just be the industry's worst (huge bloat and terrible reliability). Thanks for the tip, though, I might need to use that for my clients at some point.
Not to take this off topic right away, but along the same lines:
I recently set my mother up with a Brother laserjet. It was super cheap, and this time I started my printer shopping by always looking at how much replacement cartridges cost. I think the Brother is a winner. First, it's
$89 for the printer. Normally I see a price like that and I think three things:
1- super cheap quality
2- no features
3- I'm getting an invisible "printer subsidy" because I'm gonna get screwed on toner prices
In this case, I encountered these three things:
1- the quality is more than satisfactory. it's not like it was made by Apple or anything, but it's just a tad more than I'd hope from an $89 printer
2- this is an $89 printer with wireless/wired networking, and - to my amazement - duplexing!
3- not only is the toner not more than the original price of the printer, it's
half for the "high"-yield, 2600-pages cartridge.
When/if I need to replace my own printer, if I don't need color I'm going with this model. It blew me away.