My Canon died after 1000's of copies over a 5 year life span.

The HP Photosmart 8250 was highly rated, so I bought one.  What a disappointment!  The software regularly snarls everything up on my Compaq PC.  My scanner has never been the same since it had to start sharing PC space with the 8250.

 For no reason, the printer fails to recognize that it has paper.  Equally frustrating, it often fails to recognize that it has all of its ink cartridges intact! 

 Did I mention how noisy it is?  This thing shakes and creaks and scratches and screams everytime it cranks out a print. 

Using this printer...