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63. I agree with the HP printers being cost effective

But the last time I bought an ink jet printer, the Epsons were far superior for printing photos. Have they changed their more recent ink jets so the printer head is replaced with the cartridges?

I've never bought a Brother printer - my husband works at FedEx Office (formerly Kinkos) and he's brought home Brother lasers that they were discarding. FedEx just dumps their old electronics in the trash and my husband hates to see that.

One of the Brother lasers worked great for several years. I bought one toner cartridge and it printed for all that time on that cartridge - thousands of pages. Then it developed a paper jam that we have not been able to clear. (Or maybe my husband got it cleared - he's got it upstairs and might be using it.) Another needed a new drum which would cost more than the new equivalent model.

Right now husband has a load of old FedEx electronics that don't work at all or that are not of any use to anyone (a touch screen monitor that goes black one second after it boots, the ten year old fax machine that works but is the size of a dorm refrigerator and that smells terrible, the Brother printer that needs the expensive drum, etc.). Our plan is to take them to the Earth Day collection point. The county collects electronics that day and sends them off to some place that recycles the parts for the metals.

For now, I'm holding off on getting a new printer. The HP laser jet I bought in 2008 for $90 is still trucking along and I put a new toner cartridge in it not long ago. I think it's the third cartridge I've used in it! The Epson is doing OK now that I used a bunch of ink cleaning the heads - no more lines in my pictures.

Maybe by the time these two printers crap out color laser printers will be better at photos and have the features I want at a price point I am comfortable with. Remember, I said my husband is still using an HP Inkjet 932? That sucker is at least 15 years old.

I tend to use cars and computer gear until they are completely worn out or until I need better and can pass my old stuff along to someone who needs it.

Now you have me thinking about working on computers again! I don't have the space or time!