My printer is several years old, and it works great. Scans too. It also has the ability to scan items directly on to a flash drive for portability, and that is a great function. It saved a lot of room when I smuggled top secret documents out of WNEP. Ooops! I wasn't supposed to say that!
I can also print photos, but if I do need them printed, it's easier, faster, and less expensive to email them to the drug store, and have them do it. I should add that the store I regularly use is fast and the low prices are amazing.
Having established all of that, I looked in to the guts of my printer to get the model number for the cartridge I need, and I spied the color cartridges in there that never get used. Translation: a waste of money.
So, that set off an internet search for a simple, black and white model. It was an eye opener. They were more expensive than color printers, and they were missing some of the features I liked. Here is the reason. Those black and white printers are geared toward businesses, not the home computer geek who needs things printed only once in a while.
The bottom line is I'll shell out more money for cartridges for the existing printer, and hope some company has the common sense to develop a simple black and white printer geared toward the home market.
