If you've been following me for a while, you know there are a lot of things in this world that annoy me. I have strong opinions about the Way Things Should Be, and things which deviate from them disgruntle me.
However, the list is much smaller of things that annoy me so much that I am willing to spend irrationally large amounts of money to eliminate the source of annoyance from my life.
Bad #printers are on that list.
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Until the last few years, my solution was to pay a premium to buy only Enterprise #HP laser printers. HP's "consumer-grade" printers are complete shit, but their enterprise printers are (or at least once were, don't know if this is still true) built by different people on a different, rock-solid platform.
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However, the "buy only #HP enterprise printers" strategy failed when I had to replace my printer recently. HP has made it so hard to tell the difference between their enterprise and non-enterprise printers that I spent what I thought was a ridiculous amount of money and ended up with a non-enterprise HP printer (m479fdw), and soon started discovering the many ways in which it is crap. This, I cannot abide.
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This culminated with me recently attempting to print business cards for my daughter the aspiring photographer and discovering that although my HP printer claims to support cardstock, when I attempt to print grahics-heavy output onto cardstock, the registration accuracy of the m479fdw runs as much as a HALF INCH OFF for an 8.5x11 sheet. This is absurdly shitty printing. You cannot claim to support printing on cardstock when your registration is a half inch off. You just can't.
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So I resolved to kick HP to the curb, find a different brand of color laser or LED printer that has proper registration accuracy when printing graphics-heavy output onto cardstock, buy it, and sell the used m479fdw at a significant loss, all for the sake of exorcising the terrible HP printer from my life and knowing that there is no longer a shitty printer living under my roof taunting me.
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At this point you may be wondering why I have not chosen to follow the standard advice for avoiding printer woes: "buy whatever Brother printer is currently on sale." That advice is fine if you want a semi-decent printer at a good price-point that doesn't play shitty vendor lock-in games. That won't work for me because I want waterproof printouts (i.e., not inkjet) and because, as I said, I am consciously irrational about this. It just viscerally pleases me to own a great printer.
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@jik Brother does make semi-decent good value led "laser" (B&W) printers too. The rest of your points do still stand though.
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