Looking for a good inkjet

  My venerable HP855c is finally starting to show some problems. As you
can see, it's been a long time since I shopped for a printer. What I've
noticed about newer printers is that replacing cartridges can be very
expensive. I would like to find a non-all-in-one printer within the
$50-$140 price range which gives the best printout and is the least
expensive with consumables (print cartridges AND print heads, if not a
part of the cartridge.)

I've looked a several websites which have reviews of printers, but they
never discuss the cost per page anymore or for the most part, whether or
not the ink is less expensive to buy.

Does anybody know of a good website where inkjet printers are reviewed
OR can anybody recommend a good, current printer?

TIA

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John Corliss

 On 7/31/2011 7:46 PM, John Corliss wrote:

Google for 'inkjet cost-per-page' and take your choice. I've heard that
Kodak printers have relatively reasonable consumables but can't say from
experience.

  On 7/31/2011 7:19 PM, John McGaw wrote:

I would still stay away from any Lexmark printers until they reverse
their latest firmware update that blocks all 3rd party print cartridges
from being used.

They hide this in their printer update program and don't disclose the
3rd party cartridge blocking until the update has already updated your
printers firmware.  At present there is no method of reversing the
"update" after it is installed into the printer.

Here is just one of the multitude of links describing Lexmark's method
of locking people into using just their own brand of cartridges and at
the price they choose to charge you.

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/inkjet-printers/1282069/lexmark-firmware-update-blocks-third-party-carts

Where I live many corporate offices have removed Lexmark products from
their approved list of vendors.  Many are actively replacing Lexmark
printers with other brands due to the cost of being locked into using
only Lexmark brand printer cartridges once someone is tricked into
upgrading the firmware with the "Lexmark brand or die" firmware update.

 GlowingBlueMist wrote:

http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/inkjet-printers/1282069/lexmark-firmware-update-blocks-third-party-carts

Thanks for the warning!

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John Corliss

 wrote:


Unless you need to print in color, buy a laser printer.  I bought a
Canon that does color scanning for 135 bucks.  It even has a separate
one at a time envelope feeder.