Can anyone recommend a good wireless printer that will last longer than a year?
 

I thought I had finally found a good printer with the Brother that I bought 8 months ago. Now it won't print black for some reason, and I really don't want to change any expensive parts or get it repaired. I've gone through hours of troubleshooting, and I chucked it in the dumpster a few minutes ago.

I've gone through just about every brand in the last few years, and I'm running out of companies.

So far I've checked off Epson, Brother, Canon and HP from my list of shit printers. They never seem to work for more than a few months, whether its the wireless connection, or something weird happening.

Which one do you use, and how long have you been using it?

Have you checked out on newegg? They usually have good reviews for each product.

Two suggestions...

1. Avoid wireless at all costs. Only use wired connection. Some printers offer both options.

Imho, running a USB cable (upto 16 feet is a cinch; costs about $10 +/- from various on-line sites; Amazon, newegg, etc) is easier than wasting time dealing with flaky error messages and failed print jobs.

2. Consider a laser printer. Though color accuracy can still be an issue, but other than that, the benefits are many ... lasers are cheaper to run, faster, and have higher duty cycles; go many thousands of pages before needing to replace toner and other consumables.

Ron

The Fuji Xerox Cp205 Wireless Colour Laser is a great printer. We have 6 of them in our office and all work flawlessly.

2 Options for you:

1. Take the print heads out and soak it overnight in an inch or so of Windex. The next morning the Windex will be BLACK. Empty the solution and start again this time carefully cleaning it with soft paper towels. Let it dry, re install, and poof! All your jets will be working and your image quality will be back to brand new.

Or

2. Buy yourself a new WIRED printer and plug it into a Wireless ethernet box like an Apple Airport Express (it works on PC's too). This gives you excellent quality wireless connectivity to your printer plus an extra USB port (and even an audio port) and more importantly lets you use ANY printer you want.

Stay away from HP... I've always gone with them and been disappointed. I still have an Epson dot matrix from 1980 that still works but HP seem to die on me within a year.

I'd go with a Samsung... can't tell you about their printers but everything else from them seems legit. They're my new brand after personally banning Sony for being cheap crap over the past few years.

HP Laserjet P1102W

Excellent little laserjet - I've had mine 18 months and love it. It has auto-power off mode when not in use and wherever I am within range, I hit print and it wakes up within 1 second and the page is out within max 4 secs.

Aah, I see you want a colour printer... you know for the vast majority of prints, a simple b&w laserjet is the best and cheapest way to go.

For colour, I'm only ever printing photos and I use an Epson Photo R1900 connected to Epson's ethernet gateway. But overkill and expensive for a regular colour printer.

i cant afford a good wireless printer that will last longer than a year... :(

epsons and co

I had a similar experience with a Canon printer :disgust