hp recommendations

[Martin Waddell]

I have 2 old HP printers ( 940 and 720) and they have both been brilliant.
This will displease measekite but they have been brilliant using compatible
inks. I also have a Canon pixma 4200 and this too is an excellent printer.
I use it mainly for printing onto Cds and DVDs. The quality is superb.
However the ink costs are very high and I was somewhat disgruntled when a
little too much ink leaked out of the Canon replacement magenta cartridge
when it was being fitted . Can anyone recommend an HP printer (not too
expensive) that is good at CD/DVD printing. Calm yourself measekit when I
ask I would want to use compatible inks.. I am also thinking of a
printer/copier/scanner from HP that would do the job. Any thoughts?

 

[Al Bundy]

I have 2 old HP printers ( 940 and 720) and they have both been brilliant.
This will displease measekite but they have been brilliant using compatible
inks. I also have a Canon pixma 4200 and this too is an excellent printer.
I use it mainly for printing onto Cds and DVDs. The quality is superb.
However the ink costs are very high and I was somewhat disgruntled when a
little too much ink leaked out of the Canon replacement magenta cartridge
when it was being fitted . Can anyone recommend an HP printer (not too
expensive) that is good at CD/DVD printing. Calm yourself measekit when I
ask I would want to use compatible inks.. I am also thinking of a
printer/copier/scanner from HP that would do the job. Any thoughts?

You would leak no ink from the Canon if you refilled it properly.
Refilling it in the machine is one technique.
Don't worry about Mousekit. This group is his life. Sometimes he just
feels the need to make human contact. A person can afford to buy OEM
ink when they don't print anything much.

 

[measekite]

You would leak no ink from the Canon if you refilled it properly.

Really messy

Refilling it in the machine is one technique.

More messy

Don't worry about Mousekit. This group is his life. Sometimes he just
feels the need to make human contact. A person can afford to buy OEM
ink when they don't print anything much.

If one cannot afford appripriate ink then they have to print with
whatever they can get and absorb the consequenses.

 

[Bob Headrick]

I have 2 old HP printers ( 940 and 720) and they have both been brilliant. [snip]
Can anyone recommend an HP printer (not too expensive) that is good at
CD/DVD printing.

You might take a look at the HP D5100 series. It is about $90 US and prints
directly on printable CD/DVD's. See
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/18972-236251-64340-15100-64340-1156388.html

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging