WI-FI Printer/scanner Recommendation

[norrahe]

I've been having a look at various models and wondered if there was any in particular that anyone found useful.

[blacjac]

Avoid Lexmark

Had one last year, got rid of it after about a month. You can't scan via wireless and the printer kept losing it's wireless connection to the computers and then not being able to find them again when you try to reconnect them.

Crap Crap Crappity Crap.

[Fred Bloggs]

Got my old fella a HP one a few weeks ago. Works fine with Vista. Can't recall the model number, but they change frequently anyway. It was about £62 and well worth the money IMO.

[norrahe]

Am avoiding Lexmark and HP, looking more at some of the Canon models and possibly Epson.

[bellymonster]

I've had a Brother for 3 years now. I seem to remember it was a bargain from Staples (about 50 quid). Can't complain and works ok with Windows 7

[original PM]

interestingly enough I did get a lexmark (about £40) if a remember rightly

no problems except that it does lose connection to the network when left on its own

but do a power cycle and all is well again

scanning also works fine - you can even select the file type you want the scan to appear as.

[VectraMan]

I miss my Lexmark printer/scanner. The replacement Cannon I don't like nearly as much, although to be fair when it eventually starts printing it does do it faster.

However, the crapness of the software of both Lexmark and Cannon is a tie. Both extremely crap.

[Mr.Whippy]

I got an Epson SX600FW wireless printer/scanner/fax/copier for approx £130 about a year ago. Wireless printing & scanning, with an automatic document feeder for multi-page scanning.

The only thing that I wasn't keen on was that I couldn't print direct to the printer to transmit as a fax....I had to print it out and then fax it manually... I'm sure I must be missing something as I had a USR sportster 14.4k fax modem back in the day that could do that!

Other than that it's a great device. Gets a thumbs up from me.

[xoggoth]

Wife has a Brother. The exact model probably won't be of interest as it is A3 but works well over wifi and was fairly easy to set up.

[Cliphead]

I have an HP Officejet Pro L7680. The price was good, and, for an inkjet, the print quality is excellent. However, as with all HP printers, you'll end up spending a lot of money on ink supplies.

Never understood why people buy these things given the price of ink which has to be among the most expensive commodities given price per ounce. I'll stick to laser printers.