New printer suggestion requested

[bk13]

Windows 11
I need a new printer. This one is an HP Office Jet Pro, model 9125e. The ink is horribly expense and it will not print postcards. Every time it is started, or the paper bin opened, it goes through a long startup, maybe testing itself, and sounds like it is beating things against the stops.

I expect something up to maybe $300, and with refillable ink tanks. It must be able to print postcards with a simple change of paper size and/or paper type.

Any suggestions?

 

[W. Fisher]

If I were looking to buy another printer (I have six already!), I'd get the Epson Ecotank ET-8550 which is on sale for $599 at my local Office Depot from the normal $800+ they had it at.

Couple it with Qimage's "Print Prism" ($35) which it works with, and you can use its onboard scanner to make profiles for any paper you want to run through it for better and faster color. That will save you a lot of wasted paper and color issues. And the ink is cheaper too given it is in bottles, and it lasts a long time in the printer.

Explained here:

I have the SilverFast 9 AI scanner profile maker and the cheaper Print Prism gets me much closer than SilverFast which is about $350 plus the $70 IT8 reference image to make a profile off it. I have never been happy with the SilverFats profiles, even trying to use their profile edit feature. It was a big waste of money and paper and using my $600 Espon scanner too. Imho, of course.