High volume HP printers (46xx, 81xx, for example) behaved very very well, at work, even under very heavy usage. I'd recommend those.
Low volume / small office / personal HP laser printers, are instead just awful.
That's true. I've dealt with many 46xx printers over the years, and they're real workhorses. They remind me of the Laserjet IIP my family used to have that was a total tank of a printer. They don't make them like that anymore.
I would guess it's because they are really cheap now. You couldn't buy a color laser for 100 dollars a few years ago.
More accurately, it seems they didn't do as well in making their printers cheaper as their competition. Like I said, the Brother I just installed for my mother is great, and I've worked with Samsung and Dells (basically the same thing) and they're both very good. Far better than HP in the consumer space.
I just can't stand those gigantic software installs. They take about 40 minutes most of the time, install a ton of crap nobody needs, and usually the software breaks anyway.
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