Don't buy a Dell Printer

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Don't buy a Dell Printer, Dell stopped supplying to ink cartridges to places such as Best Buy and Office Depot, and charge $112 for a two black and two color cartridges on their site.

For my applications, a Dell 948, they can be had from Amazon for $72 for a set of two. Still a rip off.

There might be a cheaper place, but still, this is pretty bad.

[Silver350]

That and getting service on dell printers is a pain in the ass. Printers are garabage, for warrenty they make you use their cartridges and it is at least a 30 minute call for service. My company uses them and I hate the printer and dealing with their printer service.

[DirtyMax]

They are a little cheaper at Staples yet than thru Dell directly (about the same as Amazon actually)...and it looks like they're still in stock (for now anyways).

http://www.staples.com/office/supplies/StaplesSearch?searchkey=dell+948&storeId=10001&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&fromUrl=home

Dell just lifted this "embargo" a little more than a year ago and now they are going back to it.

Hopefully our supply chain dept. is leaning on them pretty hard because we've become one of their largest resellers.

[GTSLOW]

We also use Dell printers in my station. I hate those bastards so much.

[TURTLE]

at home, i have a system....

when the ink costs more for 2 refills than buying a new printer(decent), i buy a new one... lol

[Yooformula]

do the ink cartridges still have a little breather hole on top? if so I used to use a refill kit from walmart and just refill the ink myself back when I had to use dell printers at work. Now I try to stick with Canon printers but even the ink for my Lexmark printer(for scanning/fax) doesnt cost that much.

[wrath]

Many Dell printers are just rebadged Xerox printers anyway. If you're talking consumer crap I have no idea.

[Feature Pony]

Dell Sucks period!! It took me 4 reps to cancel my order. The first 3 people I talked to were from India couldn't understand them they couldn't understand me. Finally the 4th guy was in america and I asked him why I couldn't just be transfered to him right away, he then told me his company (Dell) is just out for the money and could care less about the consumer.

[SSDude]

You can get this Epson (http://www.epson.com/cgi-bin/Store/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=63083979) for $49. Why would you waste your time with this Dell crap. It is refurbished with new ink cartridges.

[Waver]

Many Dell printers are just rebadged Xerox printers anyway. If you're talking consumer crap I have no idea.

Wrong, they are rebadged Lexmark printers.....even worse.....you want to know why the dell ink costs so much, because Lexmark charges 70 bucks for 2 blacks