Comments on: New Poll: What Brand of Printer is “the best”?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 20:57:26 +0000

Personally I’ve always jumped around between brands. I’m not sure if one is necessarily better than the others, but I have a tendency to go with more HP printers than anything else. Of course that’s probably because they also have one of the widest selections of printers available, too.

I’ve always gone with inkjet printers as well, mostly because laser printers are so darn expensive to get toner cartridges for.

By: P

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:42:31 +0000

My opinion… HP *used* to be the best. They are still good, but I prefer Epson’s quality over HP.

Lexmark, like everyone else says, is crap.

Dell printers, for the most part, are made by Lexmark.

If you buy the cheapest printers, when the first cartridges run out, it’s about as cheap to just buy a new printer as it is to buy new cartridges.

By: skh.pcola

skh.pcola — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:19:01 +0000

I’ve had HP, Canon, and Lexmark printers in the last couple/three years. HP wins out for quality, Cannon is second and produces quick, good-looking output. Lexmark printers just simply suck. I bought a ~$50 model and hated it so much that I tossed the thing in the trash when the first cartridges ran out.

By: MarcoMR

MarcoMR — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:44:08 +0000

HP Inkjets … i had a 3 or 4 of them. No problems except expensive cartridges.

EPSON … hardware malfunctions, extremely noisy on older models …

Lately i’ve been into Brother printers, both b/w laser, and multifunctional inkjets. Cheap, reliable and inexpensive ink packs.
Yet i had one that went broken due to excessive work

I had a good relation also with Canon laser industrial printers. On home printers the word around here is: AVOID at all cost.

Lexmark = AVOID at all cost.

Dell = not selled here.

Basicly HP, EPSON and Brother are the 3 selling tops at home printers. Canon for industrial printing.

There’s also “OKI” printers … but i have no relevant experience with them.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:03:24 +0000

No Brother printers? Although pretty new to the market I feel like they’ve made a serious move over the past few years. They’ve certainly won my heart by being cheaper

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:25:21 +0000

Change wrote:

You’re asking for the most popular printer here, especially without a definition of “best”

That’s why I put “best” in quotes… I was leaving you to define what best is.

By: misterbillusa

misterbillusa — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:34:10 +0000

Canon is the only printer mfg’er with which I have not had problems. Now both my b&w laser and my color inkjet are Canons.

By: Omar Upegui

Omar Upegui — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:47:47 +0000

I think HP is both the most popular and the best printer around. Their printing quality towers above all the rest. A runner up in my opinion, would be Epson.

By: Change

Change — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 05:46:52 +0000

You’re asking for the most popular printer here, especially without a definition of “best”