My printer just broke. Any suggestions for a 4 in 1?

[denise15601]

I have had the HP OfficeJet 4500 for about 4 years.  Has been making weird noises for the last few days, won't print out the label for the last sale that I made.

Will call HP in the morning, but don't have a warranty now.

Will probably have to get a new one, I guess.  Burns me that I just bought 4 new ink cartridges for this one-hope to get credit....

Grrrr-I need a dozen donuts!!!!

[val2525]

I hate 4 in 1s. Several of my clients have HP 4 in 1s, and the stupid things 'clean' themself more than my cat does.

Really annoying when you need to print, fax or scan in a hurry and the stupid thing tells you it's cleaning.

[SA]

I have had the Epson Workforce 840 for about 4 years now. I LOVE it. I purchased it refurbished thru Epson and have not had a problem with it at all.

They no longer sell the one I have, but here is it's updated equivalent:
WorkForce 3540

What I REALLY love (among all the other features) is that it has 2 trays. Paper in the top tray. Labels in the bottom tray.

[denise15601]

Thanks for the info. Got my Staples sale flyer and found an Epson but not that number that is on sale. Came down to my computers to find that the printer had spit out 3 1/2 shipping labels.
I tried to print out a packing slip, but it tried to print out 15 more shipping labels!!!

Found the warranty in my Yahoo files and it expired 2 years ago.

Will take a chance to see if this thing behaves. After printing out the packing slip it made about 10 bags. Haunted or something...

[Deleted]

I have the Epson Workforce 2540 & am not overly fond of it. I think it's one step down from the one posted above, it only has one paper tray. The print quality is sorely lacking compared to the previous HP's I've had.

[denise15601]

Oh oops-it made 10 baNgs....not bags.

I googled troubleshooting since the HP site isn't working for me anymore. Watched the video-no brainer stuff, except for where they unplugged the printer before working on it, which I didn't.

Made a sale a bit ago, and printed out a packing slip. Dumb thing said....carriage jam-open the door. So I opened it....then it said "close the door"....so I closed it. Then it said open the door....etc. arghhhhh..Must be a man.

The Epson currently on sale is the 3640.

Will keep trying.

[jandsknight]

I like Canon printers, currently have an MX330, paid about $60 at Frye's about 5 years ago.

[denise15601]

wow to $60, I need one with a fax-does it have that?

[denise15601]

omg omg I got a new one and got it to work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

got an HP OfficeJet Pro 8610. It is huge, but should print 3 times as many papers as my former one did.

Sure wish to heck that a book came with it. Had no idea where to even install the cartridges!!!

[val2525]

Google and see if you can download the manual.

[denise15601]

I figured it out, and THEN I could see the demo on the printer....duh....you'd think they would do it the other way.....
Just had my computer guy here to sync the printer with my laptop and even he couldn't figure out where the cartridges would go.

This darned thing is a foot high, but the ink is supposed to print 2,300 papers as opposed to my former HP which printed 700 per XL cartridge.
And the black cartridge is the same price.

So I will deal with this behemoth.

Love Staples....I had 4 brand new ink cartridges for the other one, and they gave me credit for all of them, so that took the price way down.
This was $199, down to $129 on sale.
I was able to get a 2 year extended warranty, an extra XL black cartridge and printer for $90 total.

[denise15601]

oooooo a shoe!!