[X4U] What printer do YOU use?

[Keith Whaley]

I need a new printer. I mostly use mine in the B&W mode for text.
Very occasionally might want to print a 5X7" color print or three... Or 
some web pages in color, but not often.
I presently use an Epson Photo Stylus 820...and while I like the 
printer, and even for a cheap printer it does a pretty good job, I 
simply cannot abide the orifices plugging up all the time!
I know a lot of the problem is that I don't shut the printer down 
immediately after a print job. It's the way I use it in my home office. 
But, I am what I am... I'm of an age where I tend to Ooops! a lot. 
That's the way it is...

I want a printer that is more forgiving of my forgetting to shut the 
printer off and parking it's jets!
I'd rather have the more expensive cartridges of the H-P (I used to have 
a couple of H-Ps) and if it can't be cleared, replace the cartridge. 
Viola! New orifices!  (I'm ready to trash my Epson 820 for that very 
reason!)

Now, realizing I don't need a top of the line "photo" printer, per se, I 
do need color and a decent B&W, mostly for prints. "Ordinary" B&W would 
be acceptable otherwise, but I do like the capability of once in a while 
making B&W photo prints, so I want that.
One black cartridge plus a multi-color (4 or 5 well?) color cartridge 
ought to do it.
I don't think I want all separate cartridges, and I probably don't need 
any archival anything, probably no gray cartridge...but, I'm willing to 
listen to all possible suggestions!

Who has a suggestion for such an H-P printer?

I'm assuming H-P, you notice. I do want quality, and I'm willing to pay 
a little more for it, but...I'm essentially ignorant about other printer 
brands. And...I'd rather not experiment with a chunk of my money on the 
line!

Thanks for your attention!

keith whaley

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