Please, for the love of God can someone recommend me a user friendly printer!

My experience is they are all fine in the beginning and then they go bonkers.

I haven't RTFT but assume The Office (film) clip has been posted.

Those suggesting Canon Eco Tank... We've been looking at this but I read you need to use it every week to keep the ink flowing. We don't need to print every week, is this true? We could print a test sheet every week I guess but seems like a waste

You have been using the special programme regularly to clean it yes ?

Epson Eco tank wins for me.

I have an A4 one and an A3 one, both just work.

Both have tanks so you top up just that colour if they ever get empty and you never have to faff about buying teeny cartridges or getting messages about cartridges not being recognised even when they are the ones HP sent out.

Previously went through several HP printers which were all rubbish enough to get binned even if they didn't break (which most of them did).
I wouldn't take one for free and will never buy HP again.

As long as you dont need colour get a cheap b&w laser. We have the HP M15w and it’s great. Super simple, great quality and non of the issues of all the ink jets.

I have an Epson expression inkjet and it's an absolute arsehole. If you read its diary, you would see how much it hated me. Well, the feeling's mutual, pal. Would Not Recommend.

I'm scared to jinx it, but my HP envy, bought in 2018 with the instant ink programme has worked like a dream for us!

I pay £1.50 a month and ink just arrives when it's needed, it's wireless and every device can see it and print to it. It only cost about £80

HP is an absolute piece of shit, had nothing but issues with it. Never mind the dumb pay per month ink subscription.

I love my Brother laserjet, had it for 3yrs and no issues at all. Not the best for photos but great for paper printing.

The truth

m.youtube.com/watch?v=CSK1D3bZhRs

I have a Canon MG7751 which I'm very pleased with.
I've had it for about 8 years (I think) - they don't make this model any more.
I don't print too much.

I've just had a look at the current range of Canon printers and if I had to replace it I'd choose the Canon PIXMA TS8750 - I want good quality colour document and photo prints and I prefer multi individual inks.

I have posted on this thread.

We have that too.
It does periodically tell me I'm out of ink. I look at the level (easy to do) and tell it is hasn't. It believes me and continues printing.

Have you seen the Cat and Printer video OP? It might make you smile and take your mind off your problem printer for a couple of minutes.

That apart, I bought my Canon printer a few years ago, must be at least 4 years ago. It cost me less than £40 from Argos.

Yes, it's pretty basic, but it prints in black and colour and does photos, although, I've never tried that. However, it's very reliable and the prints look great.

We had an HP where I used to work, in fact we'd had several over the short time I worked there. Expensive, unreliable and over complicated.

My laser is an HP. I’m not sure the brand matters as much as the printer type. Inkjets dry up if they aren’t used.

Oh it must be an HP Envy actually judging by other posts, just ignore me

Another vote for Brother. Mine is a Brother HL-L2350DW laser printer. I could only afford black and white, but it's an absolute joy - so easy to use.

If I want to print in colour, or scan, I have an Epson Expression XP-2200, but like all inkjets, it's a pain in the arse, I basically only use the scan function. To print in colour, I fuck about with it until I'm ready to throw it out the window, and then walk to the library and do it there instead.

We’ve never had any problem with ours and it’s a few years old (we probably will now I’ve said that!). It must be 5+ years old, I don’t remember replacing it. Epson Envy 500 or something. The only pain is having to to out into the garden to collect your papers (printer in garden office).

Yet another vote for the Epson ecotank. I've had mine for years and only had to buy one lot of ink refills.

^ This. I've got a cheap-ish HP Laser printer, had it for 10 years, perfect for quick B&W printing. Any colour printing I order online or go to local shop. Colour printing at home is a racket!

Avoid HP hell! I'm following as yet to find a printer that's user friendly

user friendly printer

No, this is an oxymoron. Taking up calligraphy would be less time consuming and enraging.

Another vote for Epson Ecotank. Ours can on occasion throw a bit of a strop but it's absolutely nowhere near the arseholery level of any other printer I've had. Five years and I've hardly wanted to chuck it out of a window at all! Better yet we've spent very little on ink. No stupid cartridges, you just top up the tanks.

Eco tank here too. I lost my temper with our HP and threw it out. We have an eco tank at work and it's amazing so I bought one for home. Love it.

Another rec for Epson Eco Tank. We've had ours for about 6 years now, never had a problem with it. Don't remember any issues in setting it up and the tank re-fills seem to last for ages - we're only on our 2nd refill.

Epson Ecotank, about £180. I have not needed to change ink yet and when I do I can just do black which is about £10 and I have printed thousands of pages (dyslexic and have to format things and have paper to hand to refer to screen).
It has never failed me and is a direct replacement of the last ecotank which was equally easy and reliable (and lasted ages and basically kept going long after it should). It will print from our whole family's laptops and phones. It is the first printer that has brought me joy!

Another vote here for a Brother laser printer. I bought a reconditioned model from eBay around five years ago, and it’s performed flawlessly. I retired back in January and it sat idle for over six months (it was used for probably 99% work-related crap),yet came to life and worked perfectly when I needed it for a couple of insurance documents.

No fuss, no cleaning print heads, no faffing about with “compatible” inks that are anything but - I wish more things in life were as simple.