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mkgearhead · 04-07-2009, 01:24 PM

My wife just got a Lexmark wireless all-in-one at Sam's Club for $50. The only issue with it is the fact that it doesn't like Vista. It kept freezing up, but it works perfectly with XP.

Tom N · 04-08-2009, 07:34 AM

I carried a Brother all in one inkjet in the motorhome but always had ink problems probably from the heat build up in the coach when not occupied and lack of constant use.

I now carry a small HP laserjet. I don't need color and a single laserjet cartridge will do >3000 copies. No problem with dried inkjet cartridges from heat. I print photos at Sams Club or Walmart.

-Tom

Jocat54 · 04-09-2009, 06:44 PM

Stay with the HP.

John

bthomforde · 04-09-2009, 08:55 PM

HP printers have been good in the past but they currently have issues with their wireless drivers. If you're going to use it wired it might be OK but lots of people are having problems, computer locks up, unable to open web sites from links in an email (that one stumps me too but I've had it happen to me). I have a Windows XP machine when the application would stop, look in task manager, and says "Not responding" and you stop the process and send a report to Microsoft it will tell you its a known driver issue with HP and they are aware of the problem, check for updated drivers.

I finally gave the HP AIO to my son as he uses it via USB and bought a Brother, wireless AIO, so far so good, prints well and my computer hasn't had an issue either.

Bill Adams · 04-09-2009, 09:46 PM

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Originally Posted by bthomforde

HP printers have been good in the past but they currently have issues with their wireless drivers. If you're going to use it wired it might be OK but lots of people are having problems, computer locks up, unable to open web sites from links in an email (that one stumps me too but I've had it happen to me). I have a Windows XP machine when the application would stop, look in task manager, and says "Not responding" and you stop the process and send a report to Microsoft it will tell you its a known driver issue with HP and they are aware of the problem, check for updated drivers.

I finally gave the HP AIO to my son as he uses it via USB and bought a Brother, wireless AIO, so far so good, prints well and my computer hasn't had an issue either.

Our HP is hard-wired, but hard-wired to our router. It is fully networked and we use multiple computers on this one printer without issue. We "thought" we were buying a wireless printer but someone screwed up and gave us the wrong one. Coincidentally, our router sits in the same area that we use for our printer so doing an Ethernet connection from the router to the printer was a 10 second job. We have had no issues of any kind with this setup and maybe I am thankful that the clerks at Office Depot screwed up 2 years ago!