HP DeskJet 940c - the most reliable printer I've ever owned

[man4allcats]

This thing rocks! I've been running it under Windows on various computers since before Windows XP. Tonight I hooked it up to my laptop (Windows 8.1) expecting that it might not run under that OS. Wrong! I plugged it in and got a message that the OS was installing the files for the printer and that I should wait for several minutes. It did take a few minutes (3 or 4), but eventually it completed the process, and the printer is working fine on this OS. Again, no disk required. Just plug it in and let it locate the drivers. So cool! The printer is so old that the cartridges are hard to find locally so I just buy them online at http://www.houseofinks.com/ . Anyway, if any of you are running an HP DeskJet 940c and wondering whether it will work under the most recent incarnations of Windows, the answer is it will. Just plug it in to the computer in question. That's all you have to do.

[hollysmom]

1. I have this printer and love it

I used to print a lot and never had to refill a cartridge more than once a year, the ink lasted forever! I know it has small DPI, bt I loved the pictures I printed out. After my brother had a baby, we would visit him every week, I would take pictures, than take my mother home and drive home myself - then I would print out the pictures and drop them off at the PO the next day and she would have them by Wednesday - she loved that.

[steve2470]

2. HP 1020 Laserjet is that reliable also nt

[csziggy]

3. Our oldest printer is a HP Deskjet 932c

I'm not sure, but I think I got it when I was still running Windows 3.1 or 95. It still works great and is economical on ink. It's not the best photo printer we have but it prints web pages good enough for my husband to be happy with it.

[sir pball]

4. I have an ImageWriter II that was working as of a year ago

My dad finally unpacked all the stuff from his move to Florida; the old Apple IIGS with printer was in one of the boxes (probably made it through the move to ME, too). I fired it up for the hell of it and the printer still worked. Sort of - the ribbon was dried out but we had carbonless paper that was still in there too, the copy was mint. I wish there were some way to hook it up to my MBP, that thing is truly a tank. I heard that it could even print on paper bags in a pinch, so of course I tried it. Worked like a charm!