Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Finally, a printer that I don't want to fling out of the window! (or beat it with a bat) This printer has just taken 6 years of past stress out of my life. (HP you horrible piece of trash.) I am a teacher that obsessively prints color copies for her class. Obsessively. Color prints are nice. The one problem that I ran into was the excessive cost of color ink. It was so expensive for me to print, that I started injecting purchased ink from 3rd parties into old cartridges to save money. (Teachers don't have deep pockets folks. I'm printing with my own personal money.) Injecting ink took forever and was messy and got all over my hands, but I thought it was worth it, b/c I was printing color copies for pennies. Then HP updated their firmware (I was stupid to update) and BOOM. It would NOT allow me to continue inserting refilled catridges. "ERROR! Error!" And since those little tiny cartridges only held between 15-25 ml of ink, I was literally crying while refilling every other day and crossing fingers to see "if it would /work/ this time" or break again which would send me back to wal-mart to buy an overly expensive crappy cartridge that would run out of ink in 3 days. Want to know what error it said? "This printer does not support continuous ink systems." and HAH. Until that point, I didn't know that "continuous ink printers" EXISTED. So thanks HP, for showing me EPSON's (probably) life saving Eco-tank printers. I mean thank GOD for EPSON. Finally, I can afford to refill the tanks with name brand ink, without feeling like I'm getting majorly ripped off. I'm all for supporting a company, when their products are priced well within my means and aren't exorbitantly overpriced. (I mean, they are still making a profit. But not one that will break my bank!) Why can't my students have nice things? I'm so happy I want to cry. Primary use: 500 color and black and white copies weekly. Daily copies of: > Classroom color worksheets > Colored Brag tags that I laminate Things I don't care about: I'm not printing photo-quality wedding album photos. Not that it wouldn't, but that's just not something I care about. Touch screens. This one is fine. You touch buttons. The printer works. Do you really need more? Cords. I'm wireless. I don't need a complementary cord. Things I do care about: > printing in color > printing duplex > not having to refill the paper tray every 3 minutes. 250 pages is the best! > not having to WORRY CONSTANTLY ABOUT STINKING INK LEVELS and ink PRICES I cannot wait to see how well this printer works over the long term. *crosses fingers*