The printer, that is.

I was printing my jewelry hang tags when the printer stopped and the ink light came on. So I called Beau, who was out running errands, to ask him to buy ink, too. He did, I installed it, and the printer still won’t work. We replaced both of the ink cartridges.

I think I killed it because I use Avery business cards to make my hang tags. And I print them double-sided. But the extra perferation that Avery uses now, means that when they rolls through the printer the second time, they get hung up by the overhanging cover. So I was propping up the door a teeny bit to ease the paper through. It was working fine until the third page.

It’s an older HP hand-me-down from my parents, but it worked great. Actually, we had a bit of trouble with it a few weeks ago when I was working on my accounting/taxes stuff.

We really can’t afford a new printer. Of course, we can write it off our taxes next year as a business expense since I use it almost exclusively for the business at this point. So I’m on the hunt. Any recommendations for a good color printer that’s under $100?

1. Bummer!!

   Posted by  on  03/01/08  at  09:26 PM

2. That’s funny. Our HP is on it’s last legs too. And we are looking to replace our printer as well. I did some research a week or two ago, but never settled on one that would do what we want at the right price.

   We mostly want to print pics in good quality when we want to print them for the grand parents and when printing other things, just make it fast and cheap.

   Originally I was thinking of a scanner/printer/copier/fax all in one, but decided we don’t need all that for the extra money. We have scanner that we hardly ever use and when do I ever send faxes?

   Good luck in your search. Let us know what you get.

   Posted by  on  03/03/08  at  04:30 PM

3. Actually, we got a hand-me-down from Dad yesterday. We were looking to get an HP4280 - printer/scanner combo, though. We could use the scanner feature at some point.

   Posted by  on  03/03/08  at  04:33 PM

4. thanks for sharing! great post!

   Posted by toronto printing services  on  03/26/08  at  03:10 PM

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