HP Deskjet 1050 All-in-One

• The brand name is HP.

I bought this printer in Jan. 2011 and it was broken 3 months later. It got a paper jam one day and never fed paper into the printer properly after that. It pulls to one side each time you try to print and then jams. It felt very flimsy from the first day I got it, so I guess I didn''t expect it to last for years...thought it would last longer than 3 months though. Ink cartridges run dry very fast too. They are very small and feel light compared with my last HP printer''s cartridges (which I''ve had for over 8 years by the way, and the printer still works). I have to say the scanner worked well for me and made great copies while it lasted. I wouldn''t buy this printer again.

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I bought mine at walmart online for $34 + s/h costs for a total of $41 in early January this year and i thought i was getting a deal but it was NOT a deal. I barely even used my printer on a regular basis yet in just 2 months, the paper would jam and the plastic mechanism rollers that were supposed to roll the paper into the printer wouldn''t even work. The printer didn''t come with a cable to connect it to the computer. For anyone who''s gotten this machine or any other electronics and can''t return it back to the store because it''s past the 30-day return policy, there''s usually a 1-year manufacturer warranty. As long as you bought it new from an authorized retailer like the big box stores and filled out the registration for it in the beginning with HP (or you''ve still got receipts to prove you bought it within a year), just call up their tech support at HP and in the end, they''ll have to replace it free of charge which is what happened when I called them. They were really nice and sent me an upgraded version. (I did the same years before with a Canon scanner that dumped out on me and the manufacturer gladly replaced it free of charge, and the quality was MUCH better than the one I originally bought.)

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My Epson printer died on me in the middle of a project. So I pulled out my old Brother all-in-one printer but the ink head was messed up. Tried cleaning it, no luck there. So I started to research some printers and found this printer at first on Amazon and then located one for sale at Target for $40 bucks. Mine did come with a usb cable and the printer surprisingly included XL cartridges. I have a Windows XP System and the s/w loaded perfectly. Now I was finally able to get my project finished. The print quality is very good considering it only has 4 colors. And I''m done spending money on expensive printers. The Epson printer would still be working if the printer ROM hadn''t said the printer was at end of life. I paid a lot of money for that printer and just because I printed a lot of documents on it I was penalized by Epson. I tried to reset the counter on the darn thing but nothing would work. I will never ever buy another Epson again. As far as the Brother All-In-One was concerned the print head became dirty and there is no way to get in there to manually clean the thing. So no more Brother printers for me. HP on the other hand has always been a great reliable printer for me. I should have never given away my HP to a friend of mine when I got my Epson to print photo quality prints. But hey for $40 bucks I''m happy to be able to print and scan with this thing. I have read some reviews complaining about the reliability of this printer but what the heck, if it should break within 90 days Target will replace it and if it should fail within a year HP will replace it. Not so bad. And if it should last me for more than a year and fail that''s ok too. Printing for $40 bucks a year on a printer that uses cartridges that can be refilled is awesome. So now I''m back with HP and I think I''m going to stick with them from now on.

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I bought this for $20 during 2010 Black Friday sale. I had been without a printer for months and couldn''t pass this up. It felt and acted cheaply, but since I rarely print and just needed a home printer/scanner for personal use when I needed it, this would do. Worked fine for about a year, tho I don''t recommend installing the software, I didn''t and got no hassles. I will say I got at least a year and change out of it, but you have to be VERY CAREFUL with paper. I don''t think it went through ink that bad either.

But one day out of nowhere, the paper is in fine, and it just yanks it down and then BAM it''s totaled. Now when I try to print it gives me a paper jam and yanks the paper down to one side and refuses to print. I have a full ink cartridge inside that will now be useless. I have had so many printer problems, from Epson to HP and beyond. It makes me scared to buy anything to expensive as I can''t be replacing printers left and right, and to get a replacement is like trying to break into the pentagon in a Groucho Marx get up and expect to even get on the grounds. Hard as hell and you end up screwed in the end.

I will say the scanner worked just fine and still works. But I still need a printer. For $20 I shouldn''t complain, but this just happened to be a black Friday sale. This printer really costs over $60 and if it''s the same printer and same parts, etc, it should still give you solid craftsmanship. If I pay more than $70 for a printer I should get a replacement pronto. I won''t even bother with this, but it''s sad that a lot of these printers are pieces of junk.

I say do not buy this brand (not HP, but model) at least, because if it will do this no matter the price then it''s barely worth a $1.

Okay, maybe a $1.

HP''s low end printers follow a business model pretty close to the old give away the razor, sell the blades model. That''s fair enough, but some analyst at HP has been figuring out ways to make sure that HP squeezes every ink cartridge penny out of consumers that they can. You can''t easily use compatible or refilled cartridges. Worse, with every new cartridge (and the tiny cartridges don''t give you many pages before you are sending plastic to the landfill and installing a new one) the HP software insists that you print a full color page so the printer can ''align'' itself. No matter that the program doesn''t seem to do any alignment. Your print job is going on hold until HP gets its little piece of paper. (You can skip alignment, but that just means it keeps asking with every print job, in my experience.)

Here''s the point for the bean counters at HP, if they ever read these reviews: you spend a lot of money on advertising, but your brand, which is what differentiates you from the lowest cost generic item coming out of Chengdu or Thailand, depends on the total customer experience. Once you have a customer, your brand to them is how you treat them. How you treat me is you waste my time and my money by making me print useless scan pages with every new cartridge. How you treat me makes me not like you, because it is so transparently not done in my interest (I could run a scan test if the printing gets fuzzy, if I want) but all done in the interest of boosting just a little bit your ink sales. A couple of wasted pages per cartridge add up across lots of cartridges, but you need to consider the cost to your brand. I''m done buying HP. I''ve got you pegged as a company that wants to use, not help, its customers, and there is too much competition out there for me to spend time with such a company.