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Anybody got any experience with these? Any specific recommendations? Need to get one for my dad ASAP.

edit: I'm talking about the small, desktop types.

Brother do good units.

Also Xerox, but you may have to get one with a scanner on the top (which is quite useful as you can use it as a photocopier).

My Samsung one seems pretty good. About 70 quid or something.

Think they get a bit spendy if you want a duplexer or network option.

Don't get anything made by Hewlett-Packard.

I'll remind everyone of the 8 month old Samsung that I smashed to pieces in a furious rage because it broke due to using " the wrong kind of paper".

Should've used the right paper then.

This is an important point, though. Does he need it to be anything other that a simple black and white printer? How does he want to connect to it? Does it have to be fast?

They didn't specify it has to be stupidly thin until after it broke!

80 GSM max is thin.

Oh, I'd forgotten that. I miss CG too

I think you were unlucky though, or that wasn't really the cause. I use any old crappy paper in mine, including cheap stuff from Asda, recycled paper, old paper from work where the printer has spat out an entire paper tray with only a "%" symbol in the corner of each sheet, and anything else lying about.

Yeah, it just needs to be a simple black and white printer. It will be connected directly to a computer probably using USB and it doesn't need to be especially fast.

This printer was their cheapest colour and claimed it had some kind of revolutionary design that allowed for a small footprint. This actually meant it was mind bendingly complicated and simply broke by me using 100 GSM paper. The fact they wouldn't do anything about it despite there being no obvious warning other than tiny writing in the manual turned me right off their products.

Xerox on the other hand have done two site visits for my new printer. The first to diagnose the problem and then they came back with a new imaging unit. For a printer that cost about 150 sovs, I reckon they've spent more money on me than they made. The fact they even do a years on site warranty for such a cheap printer is mind bending. I even got a free yellow toner as the engineer opened one to try and fix the fault but it wasn't needed. He just told me I could keep it as company rules said he couldn't reuse things once open.

I also have a collection of paper with a percentage sign in each corner! Yea! Paper twins!

Also, the thread title looks every time like it says 'Mona Lisa Printer', which would have been cool.

*we'll now take you back to our regular programming* ding doooooo doo dum ding, bloopadooplboooo.... *ding*

paper pals!



Ah, fair enough. That does sound like a bit of a warning sign to be honest, but it's a poor show if the manual didn't state the acceptable paper grade.

Xerox service sounds incredible. I'd expect them to go bust fairly shortly.

I was thinking of getting a colour laser to replace my canon inkjet when it eventually goes bad - how are they these days?

The printers are not too bad..

Especially not a printer then.

I have a Xerox 6130 which was the second from bottom model they did at the time. It plays nicely with a Mac as well unlike the 6120 which is only a few quid cheaper.

Print quality is OK, consumables are expensive but you'll rarely need to change them (I'm on the freebies nearly a year in and that for office use). Happily handles all types of paper and like I mention, Xerox do a years onsite warrenty,.

Only £124 with free delivery from Printerland!

http://www.printerland.co.uk/acatalog/Xerox_Colour_Printers.html

+ they are networkable which saves on USB slots and makes sharing easy.

it is ok Kal, I never expect you to agree with me...

I had an HP printer and it was fucking shit. Never again.

Frankly, you're not HP?
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Yes you said, so the 1 model you had is not the same as all the rest.

I understand that you dislike them, but that 1 model might not be representive of the range...

It wasn't just the printer, it was the fact that the customer service was so abysmal I'd hate to have to ever contact them again should something else go wrong. Hence me not buying anything they make again.

It's quite simple, really.

I had a Samsung ML-1210 for ages that did me good service. I think it's a great-grandaddy of the ones Chinny and Kalmar are discussing.

The office HP workhorses are superb.

Fair enough..