How To Buy A Printer (Easy Buying Guide 2024)

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Low Budget, Lower Features Printers:
HP Envy: geni.us/JMRGQLk
Hp Desk Jet: geni.us/FGndQW
Epson ET-2850: geni.us/DMn062
Epson WF-2960: amzn.to/3HahnJs
Mid Budget, Mid Features:
Epson ET-3850: geni.us/bZ0V
Epson ET-4850: geni.us/yXoVQ
Canon MEGATANK GX4020: geni.us/quvZ
HP OfficeJet Pro 9015e: amzn.to/41OENO5
High Budget, High Features:
Epson EcoTank Pro ET-5800: geni.us/jsABN
Epson EcoTank ET-15000: geni.us/ET15000
Canon MEGATANK GX7021: geni.us/souDSA
The Printer Guys Printer: geni.us/HPPremier
Hp Laserjet Printer: amzn.to/3TOhkdX
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0:00 - 1:02 Introduction / Important Info
1:03 - 2:20 InkJet V Laserjet
2:21 - 4:07 What Is Your Budget?
4:08 - 5:41 Printer Model Numbers Explained
5:42 - 7:06 Mid & High Budget Printers
7:07 - 11:09 How Much Will You Be Printing?
11:10 - 12:40 Common Printer Issues
12:41 - 15:19 What Features Do You Need?
15:20 - 16:34 Your Setup
16:35 - 18:17 How To Look Up features On Amazon
18:18 - 19:57 Final Thoughts
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[@lorraineregan3000]

Printer GUY - I want to thank you for your comments and understanding, I am so glad I purchased the Epson 2400 Eco Tank printer, a little confusing right now but as with anythng , it takes time to get use to new items. I just don't understand why there isn't a printer icon on th bottom along with the volume control. I will watch more of your tutorials. Thank you Printer Guy you are # 1 for me !

[@BestPrinters]

Thank you, yes it will take some time to get used to.

[@lorraineregan3000]

Hey Printer Guy - thank you for answeriing my email - The part about the no name brand ink really made me feel great - for all I have been hearing is no don't buy that or it will ruin your printer, thank you for the prices of name brand Epson is outrageous, I haven;'t used the no name yet but you are the best in my book, I will watch you and enjoy your comments. What is your opinion about the GEEK Squad??

[@cometahyakutake9375]

Thank you! It was really really helpful. I was undecided between the EpsonET3850 and the 4850 and for a few pounds difference (in the UK) I am going for the latter, with the touchscreen, you made me think about that. Thanks again.

[@BestPrinters]

Great!

[@brendamills546]

Very helpful, thanks!!!!!!!

[@BestPrinters]

Glad it helped!

[@angelsacco6249]

Whats your thoughts on the epson ecotank 4810? I can't find alot of reviews on it. Also, why is the 3850 more than the 4810? I will be printing reciepes, photos and letters basically.

[@MikeBeeTV]

Thank you for the video. It's a good overall look at printers and printer types. I do wish you had the ability to long-term test all of these printers because the real issues only come up after using a printer for a bit of time. Thanks again for the good info.

[@BestPrinters]

The way I usually find out how a printer works out long-term is by reading various reviews on the printer model

[@elmarty4803]

I was looking for a review which talked about the proprietary nature of the ink cartridges...HP currently is requiring only HP print cartridges (which are more expensive ) and will disable the print function if you try to use it. The software has an option to turn it off but that no longer appears to work....as in my current HP printer which won't recognize anything but HP cartridges.

[@janietallman6950]

gREAT VJDEO THANKS

[@BestPrinters]

Wow, thank you

[@carolisichi6310]

Very helpful, please would you talk about ink refilling on different printer models and the

[@BestPrinters]

Can you finish the sentence and open a new comment so I can see what your reply is

[@azie43]

​@@BestPrintersI am a first grade teacher with a son entering Kindergarten. I print black and colour daily. What printer do you recommend no more than $300? I've spent waay to much on ink so far😩

[@NatureLoverReturns]

I just want to write a book...and will need to print it out....plus some very low-level use around tax time. :) Thanks for this video! All I'm looking for is a chromebook-compatible black and white laser printer. Any suggestions?

[@BestPrinters]

HP has an excellent lineup of LaserJet printers, you can use the links in my description that I'll take it to Amazon and you can find some really good HP LaserJet printers. And your case I wouldn't spend more than $300 since you're rarely using the printer.

[@vincentlavallee8255]

thanks for the informatiom will I need your cleaning kit thanks again vincent lavallee

[@BestPrinters]

You bet!

[@craigvelardi7420]

I have an old HP 4700 Color LaserJet Printer that does everything I need. It prints letter and legal size paper from 20# to heavy card stock. It prints double sided and I use it for printing books with color photos. I am now having problems with it, as it has around 500k copies on it and I need to get another printer. What do you suggest that I can use to print books with quality color photos, as well as heavy card stock?

[@BestPrinters]

The M283 is a great option. It should hold up like your older HP LaserJet pretty much all of the LaserJet printers you can use aftermarket toner on. You'll save so much by going that route.

[@shawn06239]

If you print quite a bit but may have lapses of weeks in between printing, stay away from the tank printers. You will constantly be buying his cleaning kit because the ink dries up way too often. I’m going to a laser printer. With decent color laser jets now down under $500, it’s a no brainer for my situation. I regret buying the Eco Tank and figured I’d share my experience in case others have similar printing habits.

[@simpleretirementbenefits]

Planning on printing heavy cardstock (oversize postcards) to send via regular mail. I know I want some sort of tank printer but there is almost NO information on how well the different printers handle cardstock. My top features are that it can handle cardstock (not photo paper) then duplexing and I don't care after that - I don't need fax or scanner or anything else. Any advice?

[@BestPrinters]

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[@FelinaFaerlaingal]

Question about the ecotanks: what about the waste tank? I heard that was the new "scam" because you can't just change it, you need to reset a thing in the printer and there is no software to do that?

[@BestPrinters]

It depends on what model the higher models do have a waist tank that you can change out.

[@rojoroj9777]

U skipped two major points while considering to buy a printer. 1. Quality of Ink (dye based, pigment based) some model of epson printer support Pigment BK , and rest color are dye CYAN, MAGENTA, YELLOW - Epson Ecotank L14150 model. Hybrid Ink system 2. Number of nozzles in Print head. Canon printer support maximum no of nozzle i.e. 4352 in Maxify printer compared to Epson Ecotank L15160 with only 3200 nozzles . I expect you to explain more while buying Printer, that nobody talks even company too in their model Brochure. Also I would like you to explain Emulation features that support PDL (Printer Description language), how is it effective in printing speed process. PCL, Postscript , ESC/P-R Raster

[@BestPrinters]

I very much appreciate your comment, however for the average consumer adding this info can be a bit overwhelming.

[@juamiglio]

OEM vs Remanufactured...what I read was that companies that make the remanufacured ink don't have access to the "same" materials that OEM does. Do you have insight to this?

[@juamiglio]

I had (for 5yrs an HP laser printer) & was purchasing remanufactured toner & could not get even decent quality color labels for my products

[@BestPrinters]

Remanufactured ink is essentially the same as oem, similar quality similar results. What OEM sells you is the brand name. I have found there is almost no difference especially with tank printers.

[@billloveless6869]

​@@BestPrintersIf your using a Brother brand, I've noticed a big difference. Since I use it mostly for documents, I can live with it.

[@philiporme5436]

Hi the printer guy, I use Linux, (M X Linux) that is Debian based, would the Epson ET3850 be able to work on Linux? regards Philip.

[@BestPrinters]

Hi Philip, unfortunately Epson does not support Linux at this time. If you would like to find a printer that is compatible with linux I will try another search engine that will tell you which printers are compatible.

[@Kazy_RU]

The lower the price, the higher chance it will break or the liquid inks are expensive and rather small. I do have personal beef with HP, a company that makes both commercial and residential products will often put some kind of its residential technology aspect into its commercial machine which is never a good thing.

[@BestPrinters]

Thats good to know.

[@vincentlavallee8255]

I am age 84 use printer to print garden information wook working information and copy page from books. So what is the best for me with a bnudget of 300 to 400 dollars vincent

[@BestPrinters]

Hey, I wouldnt spend over $250, you can get by with an Hp Envy model such as this one, geni.us/JMRGQLk

[@BabyJesus66]

You cant call yourself the printer guy if you use HP. 😂😂

[@BestPrinters]

I can and I will

[@ohmyjesus89]

Hi. I'm from the Uk and create cards as sell as other things. I have had my canon pixma 5050 for a few years now. But now its saying the ink absorbers are nearly full. So i know its prob on its last legs. I print from light to heavy card stock so this printer served me well. But now I don't know what to buy. I don't want to spend a fortune on inks as I use non compatible on mine so no great expense. I can't afford to not have a working printer.

[@BestPrinters]

I would go with an Epson eco-tank printer because they function well and you can get really inexpensive ink if you're printing a lot

[@ohmyjesus89]

@@BestPrinters but they only print up to 275gsm and I use mainly 300+

[@chrishalle1982]

Thats an envy? in europe the envy you showed is sold as officejet.

[@BestPrinters]

Oh wow

[@GreyBeatle]

There's far more to it than this.......unfortuantely...and you talk a bit to much about what you you you do and like....but what is best for business, and what is best for the individual...scan speeds, and amounts that can be loaded aren't elaborated on enough, and getting into specifics about it....what's best for small business or people in the world dealing with large amounts of scanning with a printer scanner color copier combo....ther eis so much to it...Epson usually does good....double sided printing AND scanning is important to and the speeds it works at for mass prints and scans....there is lots to this and I don't feel you were quck enough at addressing it all truly and informing the public of all options as there are many and many are better than others.....for doing everything as well.....of course getting into just scanners and just printers matters...Laser Jet and Lazer Printers.and lazer jet printers......it all matters.....and why it matters is costs for ink and toner cartridges and costs associated with them....and you didn't get into that at all.......i'm dissapointed with wasting my time with this video...if you post....get concise...is my advice.

[@BestPrinters]

You should make your own video, since you're so knowledgeable.

[@preshizmp5797]

At 08:47 you said you’re going to explain why you don’t use tank printers…and then you never did 🙄

[@BestPrinters]

15:25

[@preshizmp5797]

Thanks 👍🏼

[@slingshot3238]

See my post above. Tank printers have many problems that go beyond just cheap ink. They have hard coded timers that just pop up and say your done.

[@charleslamont2963]

The HP Envy is terrible quality. Horrible. The replacement HP sent for a defective printer was also defective rignt out of tne box. Quality assurance is NOT there.

[@BestPrinters]

Sorry to hear that

[@beautifulenigma1724]

I can't even print normal sized photos bc they made the photo tray 10cm x 15cm, which is NOT 4" x 6" (it's 3.93" x 5.91"). So I either have to cut slivers off of both top and side of every photo I want to print, or jam it in there and try it a bunch of times to get it to finally be able to grab and pull it out. But even then, the print quality sucks. It's absolutely ridiculous that they actually built and still sold a product when they don't know how to convert cm to inches. It also refuses to listen if I try to change the size of something and tell it to print the photo tray. Every setting will say photo tray, but it'll print from the letter tray anyway. And this isn't even taking into account how proprietary their systems are, and how they will essentially brick your printer if you don't use their brand of ink. Also for OP, you could make your videos a lot more concise if you didn't have multiple intros, including telling us what's coming up in multiple sections. Just a short intro at the beginning briefly saying what you're going to cover, and then just tell the info. I had to keep skipping forward (plus all the damn ads)

[@sandorclegane4635]

Stopped watching when i saw hes using an HP😢

[@BestPrinters]

lol

[@billloveless6869]

I use a HP printer and have no issues with it. I will say if I need to replace it, it will be with an Epson.

[@eddiec5036]

Their printers are probably fine, but their practices I hear about with ink and toner are reprehensible.

[@billloveless6869]

@@eddiec5036I know what you mean. I use mine for photo printing only so it lessen the hurt.

[@benjaminmathew4108]

HP printers are the worst. I am trying to get the right Catridge for the model I use..even though it’s made in Malaysia it’s not available in the local market..I have to ship it from Dubai and end of the day it won’t work..the full set catridge cost same as printer cost..I will never ever buy any HP

[@benjaminmathew4108]

HP printers are the worst. I am trying to get the right Catridge for the model I use..even though it’s made in Malaysia it’s not available in the local market..I have to ship it from Dubai and end of the day it won’t work..the full set catridge cost same as printer cost..I will never ever buy any HP