HP printers

[UltraBudgie]

okay unless you print colour regularly you want to get a laser printer. they are faster and better print quality.

here is one

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-L2405W...B0CPL7HRQN

it is $135 from amazon. you do not need to get the 'subscription' bullshit. the cartridge it comes with lasts a few thousand pages. replacement cartridges are about $30 for another few thousand pages. the ink doesn't dry up. you can connect to it with wifi or usb.

[argentus]

Thank you all so much.   I think I will order a couple of printers from the dastardly Amazon, and I will  be happy.

[Kurokage]

That is an excellent idea Kurokage, thank you.   I have an EHD, which also has all my treasured photos on it.   

Still, there are just things I need to print sometimes.   I will use your suggestion, and consider cyber filing my elderly receipts and stuff, and make the printer just occasionally work.   I am entering into a phase where I want to print and sell some of my photos.   I have the paper.   I need a photo quality printer.   That's a whole 'nother ball game.

ETA:  There is this freaky thing about people my age.   We like physical things.   We like to own music files, not pay a streaming service for accessibility.  We like to hold receipts in our hands, so when things go wonky, we can hold the receipt and scream "AAA-HAAA!"   In short, many people my age are freaks, but well-meaning ones.   I am an avid reader, and consider it a personal victory that I've moved past actual books into Kindle books.   Kindle is my salvation.   I can wait out anything, if I have my books, and now with the Kindle AP on my phone, I am truly free.   Still, there are those rare books I treasure that have never made the cut to Kingle, like Brules by Harry Combs.   I like the book so much that I've ordered a dozen of them in the past and sent them to my friends.   I think this book was the basis for the movie Jeremiah Johnson. 

I'm not to far off your age (50s) and still like my own music files and buy digital albums rather than stream from a service.
In my varied career, I studied book binding and managed a printing company for many years before the digital age destroyed the printing press, I did run one of those digital presses in the video when they were first released, but hated the experience. I love the smell of old books and printers ink, but I'm sad to say I do use Audible.

Printers do seem to be demonically possessed theses days, and are so damn temperamental, and don't get me started on the price of the ink. Some printers are cheaper than the ink sets!!

Good luck on your adventure. 

[argentus]

I'm not to far off your age (50s) and still like my own music files and buy digital albums rather than stream from a service.
In my varied career, I studied book binding and managed a printing company for many years before the digital age destroyed the printing press, I did run one of those digital presses in the video when they were first released, but hated the experience. I love the smell of old books and printers ink, but I'm sad to say I do use Audible.

Printers do seem to be demonically possessed theses days, and are so damn temperamental, and don't get me started on the price of the ink. Some printers are cheaper than the ink sets!!

Good luck on your adventure. 

Yes.   I have learned that you cannot threaten a printer in the same way as you can threaten a computer; printers are much more primitive creatures and don't respond to such things.  A computer, you can put a hammer next to it where the camera can see it, like an implied threat.  

I found that I could cajole my printer with flattery, but it was only good for one event at a time.  

40 years ago, outside of Tucson, there was a place where you could take your irritating electronics, cars, and rent a variety of full-auto firearms to shoot the absolute shit out of whatever bothered you.   Very therapeutic.   If they are still in business, I bet there are a shitload of printers there.