<p>Good choice, dke! I want that one but the old Canon Pixma MP500 is still working and I just bought ink. Wish ours had the 4th- fax- function (we do own a fax machine we hook up each time we want to use it).</p>
<p>The best advice for others is to be sure the printer they buy has individual ink tank cartridges instead of just one cartridge for all colors. Do remember to wait to change the ink tank when it is empty, not just low (as long as the print job is fine)- even then you can remove the tank, shake it a bit and get more from it.</p>
<p>College students may find it easier/cheaper to use printing resources on their campus, especially those in the math/sciences… without as many papers. The dorm may have one, those taking a comp sci course may get enough free pages to suffice for other courses, college buildings may have printing for less than the costs of ink. That’s how son did it.</p>
<p>(MaryMac15535’s mom here) It’s a little early to buy a printer for my daughter to take to college next year; however, I’m seeing so many good Black Friday specials that I thought I’d try snapping one up at a good price. The Epson XP-400 cited by Latichever is tempting because of the small form factor - but it hasn’t been marked down any farther for Black Friday. Walmart has 3 different HP all-in-ones in their ad (the fanciest of which is also carried by several other vendors), but they all seem to have mediocre user reviews. The Lexmark s415 is on sale for only $39.99 @ OfficeMax - but apparently does NOT take 3rd-party ink cartridges at all. The Brother MFC J425W & J430W are on sale for $50-60 (thus matching the HP 3520/3526’s price), have good user reviews, and do have 3rd-party ink cartridges available (similar to what I use in my Brother tabloid-size all-in-one).
Decisions, decisions! ;)</p>