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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've had bad Canon printers in the past - a one in particular sucked the big one. But their new "i" series seems to be highly rated and mine has been great.

My wife's old HP 712 is still going strong - it's a work horse. But ink is getting crazy. Over $30 for black and over $45 for color. And the third party inks don't work at all - gummed the print head right up. There went $40 for a cleaning. So $75 every few months is getting rather stupid. I've been using the Canon pretty much daily for the last three months and just last week replaced the black cartridge for $18 (Best Buy and CompUSA had the same price).