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I've got an old HP722 printer that finally made need replacing. Its given me great service but the darn thing now has trouble grabbing paper and absolutely cannot grab photo papers. So the question is what is a good printer to buy. I am partial to HP printers. What is the difference between an inkjet and photosmart printe?. I think the basic difference is that the photosmart cameras can print directly from a digital camera. I am looking for fast output, high resolution and a parallel port connection. I don't have any spare internal USB connections though I may be able to add one (haven't looked inside the box). Any recommendations????

I have been nothing but very unimpressed with printers from Canon in the past.
I have had 3 of them over the years at my old job (BJC-4200, BJC-610, and BJC-5100). Each and every one of them either broke or stopped working.
The 4200 was a particularly bad piece of crap - we purchased 15 of them for our Sales Rep's to use in their home offices, and every single one of them broke (wouldn't take in the paper - not dispensing inl properly or at all etc.)
The 5100 was touted to be a "1200dpi Photo Quality Printer capable of printing on A3 paper". It worked "adequately" but nowhere near photo quality until our office updated to XP at which point there was no driver available and Canon refused to make one. The BJC-5000 driver allowed you to print - but only at 600dpi and no photo quality - it would tell you that you needed ti insert the Photo-ink cartridge even though you had already put one in.
I'll never buy Canon again and would recommend any brand except them at every opportunity.

I am impressed by the print quality from the Lexmark and HP range - not sure about the reliability of either though.