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Review: I have had nightmares with printers. I bought a fantastic cheap Canon BJC250 bubble jet about 8 years ago. I never once had a problem with and it. However, very foolishly I gave it away to a close friend after a few years, when I decided to upgrade to what I thought was fancier - a more expensive Epson. (My friend still has the Canon, he uses and abuses it every day and it never, ever goes wrong. I would even go around and use it because my new ones didn't work!) The Epson was a nightmare. Besides being very noisy and violent, the cartriges cost an arm an a leg, the printer doesn't let you print plain black and white without having a colour cartrige in, and becasue I got through so many cartriges I would have been better off buying new printers every few months. Not only that but it got easily confused if the slightest thing went wrong meaing you'd have to keep cancelling print jobs and start again. I trashed it after 1 years headache. After this I bought an HP. That was the worst headache I have ever had. I will never, ever buy anything HP again. I feel thoroughly conned by them. I spent about £250 on a HP 450 portable deskjet becasue I thought if I spent more it should be a better quality and last for more than a year. However, it had problems feeding itself and got progressively worse despite HP sending me stupid sticky cards to clean it which didn't work because that wasn't the problem. After just 1 year it was completely incapable of feeding itself. It got sent to Paris to be fixed. When it eventually came back after a long wait, it worked for a day, rather precariously, and then was worse than it was before. I wasted my money on this computer and it is trash. I have wasted so much time with this thing, been late for appointments, missed deadlines because of this thing. It also made me very bad tempered. (I am a very toleratnt and reserved person.) You could say it ruined my life! So my advice. Never by Epson, unless you don't mind having such high running costs. But certainly never buy HP printers. Unfortunately HP printers are everywhere, they've flooded the shop shelves. I believe they must be a dogey company that is making a lot of money, because so many people complain about their printers, but when they go to buy another one, there isn't much option but to get another HP. I suppose people think thay might have just got unlucky first time around. They certainly ripped me off and I feel bitter about it. I coudn't even sell this thing. If you want something to work after 1 year; forget Hewlett Packard (I think they're from Texas, US?) Many people I have spoken to have also said they have had headaches with HP and Epson and have had to trash them after 1 year. Unfortuatnlely it looks like Canon don't produce very good laser printers, or all in ones. (They certinaly don't have much range either.) Although I think Canon should do something about this. They are certainly more trusted. However, the ordinary Canons around the £50, £60, £70, £80 mark are definately the best printers you will get. (And probably the expensive photo ones too but I have no experience of them.) So many people I have spoken to have said the same. Although I do not know this particular IP1500 Canon make I believe it will be the same as all the other cheap canons so my 5 star mark is just out of trust. Canons are reliable. They will last for years and will never ever go wrong! I believe the BJC250 I bought 8 years ago could go on forever with heavy use. My nightmare story on printers has a happy ending. I have just bought a new canon for £55. The picture quality is just as good as the ones that sell for 4 times that price. So no more printer headaches again. Take my advice. Get a Canon! Its not just me that knows this. Ask around, you won't hear of a problem with a trusty Canon. They are good quality, reliable and built to last. | 
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