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billyfridge:
I used to work for Brother repairing their sewing machines, their factory is only about 3 miles from me. my printer is a HP deskjet 1050 Tex.  ;D

TheHalf™:

--- Quote from: Synbios on March 20, 2011, 11:49:11 am ---The best printer I ever bought was a brother HL-34D or something like that.

I get so annoyed with buying ink, so this was my first ever laser printer. I also got only the B&W model, which for the most part is all I need. The fact that the cartridge lasts years for me is pretty nice.

I used to have an HP photosmart printer and the damn thing took like 7 ink cartridges.

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You know Syn I also own a Brother 4 in one actually 7 in one MFC 420CN and it works for everything.

TheHalf™

Synbios:
I stood by HP for years, but their more recent models have pissed me off. The seem to suck ink like no other. My HP photosmart especially seemed to use all the color cartridges even when i set it to black only mode. I'm like what is going on? Plus some of the cartridges expire, and it doesn't even let you force to try to use it anyway because it "might damage your printer"...right.

An ink cartridge expires? Whaaat? And it only has a lifespan of a year or something like that?

I'm not going to waste my time...

My wireless printer for the family is an HP though, that one seems to work fine. It all depends on the model I guess; but after this first Brother purchase I've made, I'm going to stick with them from now on.

The brother printer takes RAM from laptops so I found an old 128 meg chip I had and it gave it quite the boost in performance. The stock memory of printers is pretty low like 8-16 MB or something. The brother is one of the fastest printers I've ever used at 34 ppm. Automatic duplexing as well (two-sided printing without manually swapping the paper). It never jams and never has that problem when you send a file to get printed but it just never prints, and then you try to delete it and it doesn't go away.

I'm using the parallel port and I find it a bit more reliable than USB, considering I have never had a problem with it.

chelseaman:

--- Quote from: billyfridge on March 21, 2011, 12:24:28 am ---I used to work for Brother repairing their sewing machines, their factory is only about 3 miles from me. my printer is a HP deskjet 1050 Tex.  ;D

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Billy are you sure of number? The hp 1050 doesn`t show up as wireless,Are you hooked up with usb from printer directly to back of your pc. Only £39.99 from Argos
Im using the hp 3050 all in one j610 series (£49.99) using wireless,but can also be set up to use  usb or both.
Maybe I read model wrong.
Anyway this is my first HP printer and seems pretty good for price.
cheers

ps. Mr Bouchet says you will have to upgrade. >:D

Synbios:
Hopefully it doesn't eat through ink for lunch. I recommend printing with the lowest ink level as possible. Overall I think you made a good choice though I have a similar model (not sure which) and it has been pretty solid.

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