HP sells cheap printers and expensive ink.
Tell me about it. And for $26 it almost makes more sense to buy another printer with its sample cartridges then to go out and buy more ink.
Ive found most of the main brands have crappy printers. I use mine mostly for printing out proposals,contracts and some other business related stuff. But it still doesn't get a ton of use. And I developed problems with each. Usually just after warranty as usual.
For Christmas a couple of years ago The wife got me a Brother Print/scan/Fax deal. Been totally happy with it ever since. And you dont have ot pick up an entire tri pack of colors if you run out of say, red. You can just buy the color you're out of
My last HP I was so disgusted with it that when I got the Brother I wasnt content with simply putting it out to the trash. I took it outside and smashed it with a sledge hammer first