I think it was being discontinued at the time I found it for $275 on Amazon. She also prints from her Windows 10 desktop machine. She mainly prints recipes from Safari on her iPad. I don’t print a lot, but I do print from time to time. It can be a little loud when you sit right next to it. I suppose I could run a phone line to it and fax something if I ever had cause to do that.
It makes copies, too, should that be necessary you can choose to produce copies in black-and-white or color. I guess that’s the one thing that annoys me about it I wish the feeder were a bit more tolerant of originals. It will print to and scan from both sides of the paper, although if what you are scanning is at all wonky (folds, creases, etc.) you are better off just scanning manually on the glass rather than using the feeder. I have a Canon color laserjet MF726cdw laser printer. The attached image shows my printers (which are both turned off, of course) but if I don’t turn them on then one or both will probably have ‘disappeared’ by next week.
Its a strange ‘bug’ and its been happening for the last 3 or 4 Windows 10 releases, it could have been happening since the first W10 release in 2015 but I was still using Windows 7 until about 3 years ago (this ‘bug’ didn’t happen in Windows 7, btw). This minor ‘niggle’ would probably be avoided if I leave the printers on all the time when the PC is on but I only turn the printers on when I need to use them.
The drivers and software for the printers are still installed and all I have to do is turn the printers on and they ‘reappear’ again.
Running Windows 10 21H1 and the only ‘gripe’ I have is that if I don’t turn the printers on for a week or so they ‘disappear’ from the list of printers and Microsoft Print to PDF becomes the default printer again. The HP is connected via ethernet cable to my modem/router and the Brother mono is connected with USB (which is the only option it has). I have 2 printers, a HP color laser and a little Brother mono.
With that little bit of tech the manufacturers figured out how to get it. Which of course is precisely what the manufacturers want to prevent you from doing.Įverybody wants something for nothing. When the pages start showing signs that you’re out of toner (and you’ve tried the trick of shaking the cartridge sideways and it doesn’t work anymore), then you know you’re running out and you’ve gotten your money’s worth. The 4P will often print well beyond the number of pages a cartridge supposedly is good for. I turned away from newer printers when they started installing tech that disabled the printer when the toner cartridge reached a preconceived number of pages.
You mention how the manufacturers decided that they were in the business of selling toner rather than printers. I haven’t had good luck with aftermarket toner, but HP toner can be still be bought online, at the risk of occasionally getting a cartridge that is over the hill. Rubber rollers get dried out but can be restored. Not the fastest, but reliable and will run forever on a toner cartridge. I bought my first one in 1995 and have used them ever since. I still use an HP LaserJet 4P and have a spare in storage.