Printers

I think this is the lesser known brother of Brothers printers in Argentina!

Last Christmas I gifted myself a color printer. I went against my own promise to never buy another ink printer again (and moreover a HP one - my last one had a known issue and HP US was replacing them for free, but HP Italy refused to acknowledge the issue), but it was the cheapest way to get color prints at home and it has been 20 years since I had one, so maybe technology has improved.

The main issue with ink printers was the ink getting dry due to low usage, but I hope it won’t be the case now that I am running a home office. Another pitfall was that usually they came with a black cartridge and a multicolor cartridge, but at soon as one color run out, you had to replace it all.
another option was to buy a printer with separate cartridges for each color, but it was expensive.

Eventually, I found a HP ink tank multifunction printer/scanner/fax (does anyone still use faxes?!) which was on sale because it was a returned item. With this system, there is no ink-filled cartridge. Instead, there are individual tanks for ink, with small tubes leading to the printing head.

Scanning quality is up to 1200 dpi and it has an automatic feeder as well as the flat glass. It doesn’t scan double sides, but it prints on both sides. This seemed a cheap mistake, but overall the multifunction printer shows its limits even in other areas.
For example, if it prints single side, the sheets come out in one direction. If it prints double sides, they come out flipped.
No problem with flipping a page, but it gets annoying when you have a stack of prints and you have to check each sheet, one by one. I believe it should be a quick fix, programming wise. Overall, it is seems very entry level but does the job for me. Still, had I paid it full price, I wouldn’t be so generous.

My old b/w brother laser printer is much faster and prints with better quality. I am currently using both, the laser one to print drafts or b/w. Brother accepts non original laser cartridges, and I find replacements for under 5 USD, so I have stopped filling them in. I just buy a new one.

Hp Smart Tank 790 - Regular price 650-720.000 pesos, Outlet price 450.000 pesos (My card was charged 326 USD)

Impresión, escaneo, copiado, Alimentador Automático de Documentos (AAD) y conexión inalámbrica

I never use our printer but the missus does...she'll print anything and everything!! I tell her if it's just for proof of payment she should just save it in file format rather than waste money on ink and paper not to mention filling the house with stacks of A4 which she'll never throw out.

As for printers I always bought Epson in the UK The missus has always used and still buys HP in Argentina despite her cursing them every time she uses it. To be fair to HP it's usually her fault as she's a bit of a serial clicker expecting the poor thing to react to her clicks every millisecond. I let her get on with it and go and hide.

I hate printing, but it is essential to my job. Reading on screen is not the same as reading on paper, and this is true for studying, as well.

I think a basic Brother laser printer is a worthy investment for any student, as the convenience and savings of doing your prints at home pay off very quickly.

We currently have on sale our very first Hl-1010 (no WiFi), as I am using the Hl-1212w (with WiFi) only.

For when I am in Italy, I have bought a double-sided b/w laser Brother. It is incredibly fast and the printing quality is amazing. And also much cheaper than in Argentina.

There hasn’t been much improvement in home printing technologies in the last 20 years. It just got cheaper the laser ones, but that’s it.

I have a HP Smart Tank 530 , which we bought about a year ago.

Probably print about 50 pages a month .

We are still on the original ink ,......