Hello hello! Back in action with Day #2 of our super sexy holiday giveaway week! Up for grabs this round is a bad ass Dell 2155cdn all-in-one printer/scanner/faxer/metal of awesomeness. A $649.99 value sure to spruce up any of your home offices in no time! (I should know – I’m staring at my very own they sent me as I type this ;) It def. makes your life easier!!)
More About Dell Business Printers
Dell offers professional, high-quality printing solutions that help businesses run more efficiently. Their printers are equipped with improved features to increase productivity while lowering costs by requiring less maintenance and in some cases, decreased power, paper and toner consumption.
J’s Thoughts on The Dell 2155cdn All-In-One Printer
First, this thing is awesome. Especially if you always have to do a lot of scanning and/or emailing of the scans all over the world – something I’m constantly doing as I run the home office of Budgets Are Sexy Enterprises ;) (You need a contract for everything these days!). My favorite tool on this bad boy is the “tray scanner” where it’ll take a handful of pages and scan them all at the SAME TIME and then pop you out a nice compact PDF of the entire package – rather than scanning one at a time (bleh). It also has the function to then auto-EMAIL it to yourself, but sadly my tech skills have not been able to figure it out quite as yet. And that’s after spending 30 mins on it so far (a minor knock on this Dell printer, but then again I’ve never had luck installing any of my printers from try #1).
The second thing I love about this guy is that it’s super EASY and FAST to photocopy things, as well as to poke around and figure things out yourself on the main menu dashboard rather than having to read the directions (cuz really, who likes to do that?). The 2155cdn also comes with a FAX component as well, but it’s been a few years since I was last asked to fax something so I haven’t found a need for that yet in the 21st century :) But maybe you do?
Other pros and cons before we get to the specs: Really big and really heavy (both a pro and a con?), nice and black – looks super sexy, has multiple options to scan, and is super easy to install if you don’t need the wifi right away (mine’s currently just plugged into the computer itself). OH! One other annoyance – it doesn’t come with the cord you need to plug the printer into the computer, so I had to go find one in my box of cords and use that one instead. But again, I think all printers never come with one? The printer cartridges look kinda expensive too, but I’ve never had to compare “business” printers with “personal” printers before so it could be aligned just fine, I dunno… Overall though, a nice piece of machinery that will make anyone happy! Especially if you win it for free! :)
Dell’s Summary of The Dell 2155cdn All-In-One Printer
Do more for your business with the Dell 2155cdn Multifunction Color Laser printer, which can serve as your scanner, copier, fax machine and printer. Your documents print fast and look sharp with 600×600 dpi and up to 24ppm letter printing.
- Enjoy faster printing up to 24 pages per minute (letter) for color and black-and-white documents (actual print speed will vary with use)
- Built in automatic duplexer allows for doubled sided printing
- Delivers the professional color printouts you need with 600×600 dpi print resolution
- Print tons of pages with high yield 2,500 page color toner cartridges and up to 40,000 maximum monthly duty cycle
HOW TO ENTER FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN!
And now the fun part! All you have to do to enter to win one of these bad boys (a $649.99 value!) A is to answer one simple question below – something that shouldn’t be hard at all if you’ve ever worked at a business during any part of your lives (or *touched* a printer for that matter) ;) Read it and then tell us your stories!
What do you LOVE or HATE the most about printers?
Conjure up all those Office Space scenes with your printer, and then tell us what you think! The goods, the bads, and the just plain uglies. Maybe you’ll touch on something the good people of Dell have never heard before? And they’ll include the fix in a future product? Ya never know. So say it loud, and say it proud my friends!
This giveaway will go on until Saturday at midnight, and we’ll announce the winner – along with the others from the week – on Sunday, December 18th. You must reside in the U.S. or Canada to win today’s prize, though, and all official terms can be found here. GOOD LUCK! One of y’all will be printer buddies with me soon enough :)
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PS: Winner will be picked randomly via Random.org
PPS: To read more tips on business efficiency, check out Dell’s Facebook page and join the convo!
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I hate when you hit ‘Print’ then the printer hems and haws for five minutes like it’s saying it doesn’t wanna work today.
I hate feeling like I have to buy ink ALL.THE.TIME for my inkjet printer…a laser printer would be AWESOME!!!! :)
I hate getting toner all over my hands when I change it out. I love my office printer bat work because it is super duper fast!
I hate the price of ink! Some of the printers out there charge insane prices for ink – I base my printer purchase on how much the ink costs.
I hate that the ink is so expensive! Also, when it’s sitting idle and making noises…Why?
On my resume: Pharmacist, Mom, Secretary, Investigator and printer technician. They break down all the time when you print as many sheets as we do at a pharmacy every day. I’d like a cool one for home!
I absolutely hate my printer at work. It’s a Panasonic P.O.S. We have a tech guy working on it at least twice a week because of all of the issues (jams, worn rollers, misc parts falling off, ect.) Stupid thing always puts random lines on a page and the dumb ink seems to always be empty or its over heating…ugh. Well back to work
Years ago I had an HP office printer that had monster cartridges so I was buying ink every once in a while. Last year I upgraded to a wireless HP that I guess most people would have for their home computer and i am buying ink cartridges like every week. So done with buying ink!
I love being able to print off anything at home, I hate buying ink! What I hate about my current Dell printer is that despite being old, it works perfectly… but they won’t release a driver for Windows 7 so I can’t use it!
I also hate having to replace the ink and the cost of ink. It always runs out when I’m in the middle of a project. And the worse is when it runs out at home and I have a deadline to meet, I have actually run out the house in pj’s to get ink lol
I hate that I always seemed to run out of ink when I have that ONE important document to print! (So I’ve learned to stock up on ink!)
In a old job our printer changing the printer cartridges was a nightmare because it was a printer, copier, fax machine &I it never failed that the toner would always leak out and get all over my hands and sometimes my clothes. I always ended up being the one who had to change it & be the one who got dirty. And the other employees would be laughing until I had to show them how to do it & they got dirty too.
love the utility of doing printing, copying, scanning and faxing , all in one place. the feed scanner with autoemail feature seems wonderful and im sure it saves a ton of time. i wish i had one at home for my homeoffice. the bad is obviously the cost of the device, the cost of maintaining it, with the ink cartridges etc. i can only make a case for good vs bad, if i had one of these bad boys. hope i win one ….
I hate paper jams. My printer sometimes decides to tear off the corner of a page and then it gets lodged in the depths of the printer somewhere almost completely inaccessible and then I lose 1/2 hour or more trying to get it to work again!
I hate that after you print, like, 5 pages, it tells you your ink is low. Phooey!
Wow. Blinky lights are my pet peeve!
I hate when the printer doesn’t print and you can’t figure out why the heck it won’t!
There is nothing worse then a paper jam with the printer.
Ink, ink, ink, ink. Just bought $35 worth of NEW ink only to find out the smudging, blurring etc wasn’t the result of old ink but the PRINTER. So now I’ve got old ink that’s still good, new ink that’s good to go, but a CRAP Epson printer that can’t print using the ink!
I hate buying ink all the time!
I absolutely HATE buying ink and paper, but you can’t beat the convenience. I don’t currently have one, and it’s a pain!
What I hate most about printers is how difficult it is to get them unjammed.
I hate the big, bulky size (this is one case where bigger is NOT better…bahahaha) of all-in-ones because they dominate my home office space, but I love the convenience!
I freaking hate how my current printer will tell me I’m out of ink and force me to buy new ink. Then when I take out the “empty” cartridge, it still has like 20% of the ink left. I seriously want to throw my printer out the window.
I hate how the ink is so expensive. I love wireless printers that can be used from anywhere in the house!
I love laserjet printers, I hate printers or all-in-ones that say they are compatable with Win 7 and then don’t work at all. (Not Dell)
Throw me in the crowd that hates the paper jams! It’s certainly not as bad as it was in years past, but they sure are frustrating when they happen.
definitely loving the wireless printers! we bought one a few years ago, and it makes printing from any of our home computers super easy.
I used to run blueprints and hated the ammonia smell.
PS – it’s “cord,” not “chord.” A “chord” is a number of notes played together to make a harmonic sound. Or one of the component members of a structural truss.
I LOVE all the things a printer can do now… since a teenager owning a fancy printer was something that just seemed to indicate I made it in business. Owning my own business, the most frustrating part is INK!
I miss having a laser jet! Grew up with one at home. I hate having to buy ink – I swear our ink jet runs out all the time. At work, I love being able to print remotely, back to back, and stapled at that!
Since graduating from college, I got rid of my dinky college printer and have turned to my cubicle-job printer. Occassionally, when I need stuff printed.. I would run to kinkos for something like a coupon print out. You know? But .. I think it’s time I make the switch back to having a printer. I would love to print in color and not have to feel sneaky about using my office printer to print stuff for my side-gig lifestyle.
I love being able to print anything I want, but I hate, hate, hate paper jams, especially halfway through a big print job.
Hate buying/replacing ink!
I think the oatmeal said it the best when they compared the ink in a printer’s ink cartridge to a ball point pen’s ink by saying “Either printer ink is made from unicorn blood of we’re all getting screwed.” Need I say more…
I hate trying to figure out where the paper jam is in the big printer at work, it always takes at least 5 minutes to figure out where it is and get the crinkled paper out!
I hate that my printer at home currently prints everything on an angle!
I hate it when my printer suddenly makes a bunch of noise like it’s about to print something….even though no one has asked it to print anything.
I hate when they jam but keep trying to print anyway so you have to open the thing up and then spend 30 minutes trying to fish little toner-scented scraps of paper out of the rollers.
I hate having to but ink/toner!
I hate printers as much as I love them. My printer at work can’t ever seem to find where I would prefer it pull the paper from. So I get 8 1/2 X 11 documents on legal paper and labels and addresses for envelopes printing on 8 1/2 X 11. It can be a bit frustrating sometimes.
I love out current copier/printer/scanner because it is fast, has an easy to use interface, and makes my job with IT very easy. The toughest thing was making sure we purchased the right machine to fit our needs. The extra time in the beginning is making all the difference in the world.
The ink! Why do 2 new ink cartridges cost the same as a decent printer?!
I hate when I am stting at my desk and the demons that possess my printer decide to “cycle or refresh” the printer. I don’t know what the heck it needs to do that for (and frankly I don’t care) but it bugs the crap out of me.
Along with just about everybody else, I hate how much ink costs. But I also dislike how much room printers take up on a desk/shelf/everywhere. At least this all-in-one would consolidate all the necessary space-takers.
I hate having to buy ink ALL the time!!! And the cost!!
I hate the worst when toner explodes all over you. I enjoy when they break down and I figure out on my own how to get it working again.
I also hate the cost of the ink!
I love the fact that you can put a few pages together in the copy bin in our printer/copier at work, but at the same time i hate it when almost always it ends up missing a page, or scanning two at a time. I have to go through them individually and manually copy the missing pages.
The cost of the ink is by far the worst part of owning a printer. They suck you in with great prices on printers, but make you pay for it everytime you run out of ink/toner.
I hate it when the paper gets hung up in it!
I hate it when its time to buy ink! its so expensive :(
Love the color you can get off most of em these days – it’s great! Thanks J
I hate it when someone else is on my only desktop pc and I can’t just send my business invoices directly to the printer from my smartphone…it slows down my productivity in my new start up home business!
The best printer sucks (paper) smoothly. So what I find most annoying is a printer that doesn’t suck, which ironically sucks the most ;)
I love being able to scan documents, rather than fax. I hate toner getting all over my hands when I have to change it out. I also hate having to have someone come and fix the one we have where I work-$200/hr. Yikes!
i hate it when there’s a veritcal line printed on all documents. i think printing is an awesome invention in general. Go Guttenberg!:-)
I hate when I hit print and abosolutly nothing happens so then I have 6 jobs in the que and realize the printer is “sleeping” and have to start from scratch! My printer at work is a dinasaur!!
I hate how freaking expensive ink is!
I LOVE having a laser printer. Toner lasts us quite a while, and it’s quick and efficient. I HATE that my ink jet scanner/printer doesn’t scan to a network folder or email. And it takes a solid 2-3 minutes to scan a page. It’s old, but it still works. I can’t justify purchasing a new one.
I’m currently hating the printers in my office because we are having server issues and they are seriously bogging down. I’ve been waiting for 15 minutes for a document to print. My partner just started his own business though, and that printer would be great for him to use! Christmas present?
I love it most when printers work. What I hate most is replacing the cartridge!
I love wireless printers. I do most of my work from my laptop & love being able to print from any room in my house.
I hate that it runs out of ink at the most inconvenient times (thanks, Murphy’s Law!)
I love wireless printing but I hate having to buy ink
I love my wireless printer when I can sit in front of the TV, crank out a paper, click print, and listen to it print across the room, just waiting for the next commercial break. I hate it when I click print, and I see a popup saying I’m either out of ink or paper.
I hate that a few years ago I saved up money for a printer with a scanner and it doesn’t scan!!!! Just photocopies. That and ink is outrageously priced! Thanks for the giveaway!
I dislike when printers don’t line up correctly, especially when printing labels!
I hate it when a printer has a paper jam. No matter how nicely you place the paper, it generally insists on chewing up a sheet every hundred pages or so!
I hate the fact that I can almost buy a new printer for the cost of a replacement cartridge. If it wasn’t so environmentally damaging I don’t know if I’d ever buy the cartridge again.
I hate printers that are to flimsy to photocopy my buttocks.
I hate to buy ink and sometimes the ink cost more than the printer itself.
I hate having to change the (expensive) ink cartridge on inkjet/laserjet printers
I hate that it’s actually cheaper to buy a new printer than to refill the ink cartridges. If they had simpler packaging, I’d totally buy a new printer every month.
Gosh, I hate the cost of ink. I homeschool my 3 kids and we go through ink like crazy.
Also, just in the past 2 weeks the printer (canon)has started making random whirring and clicking sounds out of the blue. It’s like the thing is possessed. wth??
Thanks for the chance and happy holidays!!
I hate it when the printer randomly makes loud noises in the middle of the night and scares the crap out of me.
Love – being able to scan docs and make copies from home.
Hate – the cost of ink! Who doesn’t?!
I love it when you drop the toner and it spills all over the office carpet, creating a spectacle that stops work, stains your clothes and creates weeks of jokes. To be clear, that’s what I hate most about printers.
I actually get along quite well with printers…..everyone else in my office doesn’t! It helps that I’m a support tech that has to deal with 6 different ones on a daily basis.
That’s what I love about them – they work for ME!
I mostly experience printers in the workplace, and I LOVE that there is an entire department which can be called to fix any and all printer problems. I LOVE that the fixing is their responsibility, not mine!
Love the fact I no longer have to use a typewriter to file out all my paperwork.
Hate the fact that my current printer will all of a sudden go on strike by saying the “page is to complicated” and refusing to print it.
While I appreciate the trees, sometimes I just need a piece of paper! I love being able to print wirelessly at home, but when that goes down, I might have to print something at work.
Oh printer, oh printer! I love thee and I hate thee. I love when they print with good quality and help you move along your day very quickly. I hate, hate, hate when they start refusing to take paper to print. Yes, i know something breaks but seriously….can we not make a better product? I feel just when I get into a committed relationship with a printer it up and dies on me.
I’m like a lot of others here…the price of ink for these printers is crazy expensive. And I hate printers that have all the colors included in one cartridge so if you run out of one color, you have to purchase the entire set!
@Family of Geeks (76) Hahahaha, me too!!
I love how fast printers like this can be. :) I try to do most of my printing at work (bad, I guess?) because the printer here is just so much faster than my little guy at home.
I also didn’t buy a printer with a scanner, even though a lot of my second jobs require me to scan documents and email them… They’re so expensive to me when there’s the library. :/
I love my printer at work because I can scan multiple copies at once.
And I’d love this for home because I don’t have a scanner anymore. :-(
I hate that no one makes a feature-rich printer at an affordable price. I’d love it if a company could make a color laser with ethernet and wireless ports, and a 8.5×11 paper tray and an additional fold out tray that can take just about any paper from 4×6, envelopes, up to 11×17, all for less than $200, you can buy toner refills on ebay, and its easy to refill the toner on it. Sadly, anything that can take 11×17 paper gets expensive quickly.
I’d love this thing. I currently have an old B&W laser that I rescued from a trash pile in college. Hey, is this thing Energy Star rated? One thing I hate about mine is that even in power save, it uses a TON of electricity.
The thing I hate most about printers? The fact that you seem to need a degree in computer science to set up advanced features.
I hate fixing them. We had an old printer at my old work and I was in charge of keeping it going. Not to brag, but I was one of the highest paid in the company and I had to spend hours fixing a printer? Whatever. We finally got a new, huge, printer, copier, scanner and it was fabulous. The scanner was amazing and fast!
I don’t like how expensive ink is. I think we have bought a new printer before instead of ink because it was cheaper.
I hate that the cost of the replacement ink is almost as much as a new printer. I think this is the greatest failing of printers.
Everytime I have to buy ink it reminds me that we are very much a disposable society.
Hate: Cost of ink/toner.
Love: paper reports to hand to people in meetings.
Hate: Paper jams
Love: Paper sheet music that can put on a stand (putting a laptop on a standard music stand doesn’t work well)
etc.
I hate how inconsistent they can be… why won’t they just work?! I have a Xerox WorkCentre all in one at work right now that I’m ready to take out back and deal with Office Space style. I do love the scan to pdf function… when it works.
Right now I’d love a working printer. It’s not, and so it’s a pain to truck on over to the library to get stuff printed. I think having this unit would also help with some household organization.
I hate how expensive replacing the ink is!!
I love the convenience of being able to print, copy, fax at home. I don’t like that things tend to break a lot and the cost of ink is high.
I hate when my inkjet printer at home won’t print anything if it’s out of one color of ink. Why does it have to have yellow ink if I’m only printing something in black & white?!
I hate how expensive it is to refill the ink!!!
I hate it when at times the prints come out staggered and not a full print every time. It prints fine when I give it a “nudge” of the ink cartridge since it was bought brand new. Even though I’m used to doing this, I do need a new printer!
I love how lazy i am sometimes at work and i hit print screen so i dont have write down a bunch of numbers on the screen..for this reason it is a life saver…
I hate how the thing is always asking for more paper. It is never in the middle of printing a document it is always when you go to start printing something that the printer remembers that it doesn’t have any more paper in it.
Main complaint is that of the price of ink…sheesh they MUST be making a killing on this stuff cuz it’s almost killing me to keep buying it.
I love the fact that you can scan and image and keep it safe and searchable for years to come. I hate went they Jam.
I almost don’t want to win it because I just bought an awesome Epson! But, it certainly wouldn’t hurt to have that automatic PDF Scan function. Sweet!
I hate when the toner makes a mess in the machine and all over the papers that print out!
Printers nowadays are wonderful…when I was in elementary school through high school the primary means of reproducing printed materials was a mimeograph! I hate, however, how darned expensive the ink is for printers. What a racket!
I hate how inkjets cost sooo much to replace. It also seems pretty wasteful when the cost of a new printer is almost the same as the cost of replacing the ink in some printers.
I hate being told to “shake the toner”, when the tech guys are too lazy to replace it.
“paper jam, open right cover and remove” (there is no freakin’ paper jam! Slam!!!).
Everything I print now comes with a beautiful light grey colored background.
If I make more than 10 copies “internal service error, please shut down. If problem persists contact technician” (turn printer off for 1 hour it’s fine n dandy)
I hate downloading drivers. Shouldn’t be that hard. That’s what she said.
Don’t like having to remember to buy ink or paper!
I hate how quickly printers seem to go through everything: toner, paper…I feel like I’m constantly buying these things and refilling it! But I do love that I’m able to print whatever, whenever I need to at home.
OMG! Auto-duplexing? *drool* I hate trying to duplex manually on the typical printer targeted at the average consumer. At least one time out of ten I accidentally put the sheets back in the wrong way and ruin the entire thing. Then, instead of saving paper, you’ve just wasted more. o_0
Totally drooling over this thing. And I don’t have a printer at the moment, so I wouldn’t be just a little excited to get that thing.
hate when the paper gets stuck in the printer and then you need to open it and get your hands all greasy
The worst thing about the office printer is finding the last tiny bit of paper that jammed the feed while printing adhesive labels – or getting all of the little screws and parts put back together before the “real” technician shows up on his service call.
I hate connecting printers or when there is a troubleshooting problem! Ugh…
I love printing my notecards for exams.
I hate replacing the ink and dealing with paper jams.
I dislike having to change the toner at my work printer..ink always gets on my clothes :)
I hate when they don’t work perfectly. Cause it goes from being an easy project to a huge stressful mess.
Dealing with paper jams is the worst, especially when you have to stick your whole hand in to unstick the accordioned paper and get ink on yourself.
I LOVE when the image you send to print actually comes out the way it looked on the screen! Like “that is REALLY orange!” Or “WOW those are indeed each and every once of my freckles!” Or better…”um, that’s too much clarity for my double chin!” just jokes…kinda!
I really hate the ink. Running out of ink in the middle of a print, refilling the ink, trying to find out who has the cheapest ink. Driving somewhere and buying the ink. Getting ink on my fingers when I install the cartridge. I disklike it all. I hope random.org picks lucky 121!
I hate when I’m out of one color I cant print anything!!
I hate when they stop working… eg many start giving random errors after a couple of years and opening and closing the toner access door fixes it??? Seems like a lot are very fragile in this manner.
I hate the fact that sometimes the ink replacement is more expensive than the printer itself. In this case because the printer is so darn expensive that won’t happen.
Well, I’d have to say what I hate the most about printers is that they cost too much for me to go all Office Space on my own. If I had a new printer, I would totally blast some late 80’s/early 90’s rap beats, don a pair of steel toes and pick up a baseball bat to let my old printer know how I really feel. I also hate having to move my laptop to where the printer is to plug it in every time I need to print. Don’t have a desk anymore, so the printer is kind of in a corner hiding.
What I like about printers is the time they save when they are working. Mine is kinda slow, but it still beats the heck out of writing by hand over and over to make a copy of something.
What I hate most is when you accidentally print something on a network printer on the opposite side of the building from where you work… Or even worse, in another building down the street! Especially if it’s something either personal or private… Though it’s always funny when someone else does it to my printer lol
I hate the crazy paper jams that happen in my office’s printer. I can pull out five different printer components and never find the jam, even with its fancy directions! And don’t get me started on when the printer decides it only wants to print out black pages – yes, solid black from one end to the other, instead of my document. Just thinking about it gets me frazzled.
I’m driven nuts by how quickly printer go through cartridges… and the amazing cost to replace them…
It’s never fun in the middle of the night, when, with a deadline looming, the printer, in the middle of printing 500 double-sided pages, skips one.
Wow, that’s one beast of a printer! I hate printers for their cost of ink. I love printers at home so I don’t have to go to work.
LOVE that they are so easy to install nowadays.
HATE the learning curve to get color balances correct when printing photos on a new-to-me printer.
I love printing in color and making crafty things. I hate when printers jam.
I hate how my printer wants me to align my cartridge every time it gets turned on. Yeah, because I need to go through the liquid gold ink faster than I already do!
I hate all the ink you have to buy, but I am so glad that we now have printers that are wifi enabled. I remember asking an IT friend about 5 years ago if there was such a thing and he looked at me like I had 3 heads. So glad to finally have that technology!!!! Thanks for hosting!
I hate ink jets but love color lasers. In this day and age of wifi printers, how come so many people hang on to ink jets but refuse to upgrade to color laser? I don’t think the public is aware how good color lasers are compared to ink jets, that needs to change.
I hate it when they jam, but I LOVE it when they work! ;-) Thanks for the chance to win!
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Right now the most I hate about printers is not having one. Usually, it’s the ridiculous cost of ink.
I hate that my printer doesn’t accept reusable ink cartridges. I wish printers were more friendly towards reusable cartridges.
I hate when my printer always decides to fail when trying to print out E-tickets. Then I have to make a frantic dash to the library to print them out.
I hate the expense of the ink cartridges.
Like most people I hate the cost of the ink.
I hate that everytime I hit the print button, I’m praying that my printer actually works and has not run out of ink! I love being able to print coupons and save money on my groceries.
I would love to have a printer that is also a scanner. I think the ability to scan something and email it to yourself is very useful! I used to use one of these at my old job and I absolutely loved it! I hated my old job, but boy did I love that printer!
I hate that the drivers stop working or the drum goes bad and somehow the printer isn’t worth keeping anymore (oh, and how much the toner costs – insane!)
I hate having to buy ink OFTEN and also having to get up to connect my laptop in just to print something. I LOVE laser printing and wireless features. I also love all in one printers…has made life simpler.
I hate spending so much money on ink! I see all sorts of cool printables online and cringe when I think about how much it would cost to print them in full color! I’m still running on a super old refill cartridge printing in draft mode to stretch the ink. My printer doesn’t do any of the fun things the Dell all in one does though, so maybe I’d have nicer things to say about it if it did more than just print :)
I dislike running out of black ink faster than the other color inks!
I hate how much ink costs and I hate how often you have to replace them (hopefully if I get one of this quality that will be resolved!).
I hate when the printer jams and you can’t figure out why, that it’s a connection somewhere, and then the IT person pulls out the jammed paper and laughs…
I hate that you can just cover the ink sensor on a laser printer and get months more out of it. Why do they tell you its empty when its clearly not?!
ink — lots o’ ink
I love printing in color and making beautiful cards. I hate that the ink cartridges are expensive.
I hate how stinkin’ slow my printer is! As a homeschooling mom I am always copying something or printing out worksheets for the kids and I would love a printer/copier with faster capabilities. (And I do use the fax on my printer because that’s how I have to submit medical expenses to our insurance company. I’d love for that to be faster too!)
The worst thing about printers is some brands that dont let you print, even in black because the yellow cartridge is out.
It drives me nuts when the printer just wonks out and I have no idea why!
I love the convenience of having a home printer. I hate the inconvenience of it not working when you really need it.
I’m going to agree with the majority of everyone else and say, the INK! I sometimes come out better expense wise just buying a whole new printer every time i run out of ink.
I hate that my printer won’t scan more than one page at a time!! When I have to send files to clients, if it’s 10 pages, it’ll be 10 different files. Drives me insane. Also not a fan of ink prices either.
I hate it runs out of ink when I need it the most
I hate paper jams!
I love it when printers work. I hate it when they don’t. But really, you know it’s true. And the noise…sometimes I wonder what in the world the printer could be doing that takes so much going back and forth of the ink cartridge before the printing actually starts…
The price of ink of inkjet printers just drives me crazy. Having a laser printer would be nice for a change and I will save on ink. This printer prints up to 24 pages per minute is like music to my ears. I am in the process of starting my home business, and this would come handy.
the price of the cartridges is probably my least favorite part! oh…and when it suddenly ‘jams’ for no reason.
I hate paper jams.
I hate clearing paperjams. I always seem to miss some tiny little piece torn from the corner of a previously misfed envelope or something.
I can’t stand that my printer is fickle when it comes to when it wants to work. It seems like every time I have a W-9 to submit or a contract to review, it goes out.
Buying ink for it constantly is a close second :P
I hate paperjams!
I love that I can now scan stuff to PDF. All at once. That was a huge help when we were buying a house. I could get the docs via email, sign ’em, scan ’em and send them back. Thanks, work!
Like lots of other people, I hate the price of ink. Especially when we had a color printer. Yikes!
INK. Buying ink is incredibly aggravating for me!
i HATE when i run out of ink. it’s so expensive.
I love being able to print pictures myself, but printers seem to passive-aggressively know when you’re in a hurry and that’s when they decide to ignore the ctrl-P command. (Eddie Izzard does a hilarious little bit on printing at the end of his ‘Glorious’ DVD, by the way.)
I hate how printers can tell you’re on a deadline and chose the worst possible moment to run out of ink or jam like crazy. I just know they’re watching me.
What do I hate most about printers? The fact that my printer at home has died so I have to sneakily try to print personal projects on my office printer. Like 50-page ebooks. Boy, could I use a printer for my home office…*A-hem* :)
I hate being stuck with changing the toner at the office. We all ignore the warning message until it stops printing.
The thing I love about printers is that they can be networked, which saves a whole lot of trouble. Coincidentally, that’s the same thing I hate about them, when they don’t play nicely with the network.
I hate it when a printer just spazzes out and either does nothing or shoots out a hundred pages of junk symbols. I love printers when they print. ;)
Printers really tend to drive me crazy. They have all these great features that work so well… until they don’t — usually when something very important needs to be printed NOW.
The price of ink or toner is a killer!!! And when I run out of one color of ink, I can’t use my printer to print in other colors and it will not even scan without ink. What the heck!!!
I HATE when they stop working! We rely on them so much! I love my old, dependable work printer. My wireless printer at home was done-zo a few months ago :(
What I hate the most about printers is how often I need to fix them. Not only is it often, but it is usually complicated. I would like to see some statistics on how many paperjams occur for one printer over the course of a year compared with how many successful printjobs went through.
What do I hate? I hate that they (and TVs and all other electronic things) are now considered to be disposable technology! Don’t tell me about recycling – that’s a pain and a “feel good” way of passing the buck for the ultimate disposal. There’s no recycling the energy and time that goes in to manufacturing. I want things (when they break) to be fixed, not thrown out, and yes, I want to pay someone to do it. Call that my jobs plan for 2012 – more people making a living by using skills and knowledge to reduce the need for conspicuous consumption!
Thank you and Merry Christmas!!!
I hate the cost of ink. It seems we’re constantly buying more of that stuff.
The cost of ink and the frequent need to replace it is my biggest complaint about my printer. It got to the point where I just started ordering replacement ink on Amazon, which costs about a tenth of the price as the manufacturer’s ink. The quality may or may not be as good, but I only use my printer for personal items, not for picture or archive quality prints, so it’s not a huge deal for me. As for the possibility of the printer or printer heads being ruined by replacement ink — I haven’t had any issues, and in many cases, ink jet printers are inexpensive enough that you can go out and buy a replacement with the money you save on the ink ($50-$100 for a decent ink jet printer).
I don’t have much experience with laser jet printers – but I have been looking at them as a long term replacement option for the ink jet I use at the moment. So it would be nice to win. ;)
i hate that it takes up so much space ;)
I HATE the fact that the printer in my office makes this horrendous squealing sound that makes everyone cover their ears, haha…
Count me in as another one who hates the price of ink!
I love the convience of printing papers from home, I hate using my crappy printer that never finishes a document
I hate when they don’t work! so frustrating.
I’m in desperate need on a printer right now.
I hate when they say the ink levels are fine, but prints illegibly!%^$%^^#!!! Of course it never happens when I want to print a recipe it only happens for important documents with hard deadlines.
The cost of ink sucks!
I love how easy they can make things, but I hate how I seem to jam them up or forget to buy ink just when it is most important :)
I hate when you print out photos, and your printer never bothered to mention that it was out of ink, and the pictures all come out kinda greenish grey
Hate that my current printer constantly jams, but love the convenience of a multi-function and not having to xerox things at work!
I hate how noisy they are. I want a silent printer!
I hate having to buy inks so often for my printers since its so expensive. Furthermore, my printer will not print once it detects a particular color is too low. It almost forces me to buy color ink to even print B&W.
The think i dislike about printers are having to replace the cartidges. My printer is getting old and hard to find them locally.
It’s all about how much ink it uses and the cost!!
I love being able to use a network printer, so I don’t have. to get up and connect. a usb cable every time
I love wireless printers I think that’s a great invention and I hate paper jams, especially imaginary ones.
I hate that ink replacement costs almost as half as the printer.
I hate paying so much for ink and having to buy it all the time.
I hate buying ink cartridges for my printer. They don’t last nearly long enough and they cost too much.
I love wireless printers that I can stash out-of-sight without having to run CAT5 all over the place!
I hate when printers are supposed to be compatible with a new operating system if you only download the drivers. Yeah right lol. And the constant buying of ink ranks pretty high on my printer dislike list too lol.
I hate that my printer only works half the time. It’s always either out of paper, out of ink, has a jam or just isn’t in the mood to play that day!
love wireless printers. Although I wish I could scan wirelessly with mine.
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I HATE buying ink! That’s where they make all of their money!
I love that everything can be printed at your fingertips! The convenience factor for sure… Hate? I would say the high cost of printer ink!