I’m having a hard time finding the right printer, a replacement. Lengthy post below.

In 2014 I bought an HP photosmart 7520, it has lasted me many years, it could do everything and I accomplished countless productive things with it. It’s photo printing was almost as good as a photo lab. Even recently, this Photosmart’s photo quality is actually better than walmart. com’s photos you can order in the mail. The photosmart can also do borderless 8.5 x 11 inch non-photo paper and 8.5x11 photo paper prints, which canon printers generally cant do. I think the only canon’s that can are around $800, which is way too expensive for me.

I’ve made a lot of money with the photosmart in many different ways. I sell printable art online. I also design and print out novelty dollar bills with famous people on them. Epson printers are even better at printing photos than HP but they wont let you print dollar bills, I think even the transformed art/novelty type I sell. And even nowadays I’m seeing in forums that ever since 2014, HP printers supposedly wont print anything that even resembles a dollar bill. Dollar bill art is not all that I sell, of course, as I mentioned I sell art on 8.5x 11 inch posters and even larger.

I’ve recently sold my art on ebay and urgently need to print it and print a shipping label and ship it out. But recently I unfortunately started getting an unfixable “printhead error”, and even after buying a printhead replacement, it still doesnt work. I’ve taken this photosmart completely apart before and I think whatever is wrong with it is not worth fixing, it’s too much trouble.

So I need to buy another printer, Canons and Epsons appear to be the best photo printers, but Canons cant print borderless 8.5x11, and Epsons cant print money art.

My only solution that I can think of is to buy an HP photosmart 7520 or 7525 on ebay. They go for around $150.I was wanting to buy a new HP printer, but according to consumerreports .com, only two Canon printers can do 5 out of 5 star photo quality, NO OTHER PRINTERS can do as good as Canon currently. Regardless, I still wanted to try to buy a new HP. HP .com has a subscription program that I dont have experience with and where you dont even have to pay up front for the printer. You have a choice from three printers, HP ENVY or HP ENVY Inspire or HP OfficeJet Pro. The officejet is $13 per month, plus you gotta pay per page you print on it. A bit disturbing. According to consumer reports and amazon reviews the HP OfficeJet Pro has the best photo quality, 4 out of 5 stars. I would be curious to buy it to see if it will let me print my dollar bill art. Also though, when you buy the “HP loan printer”, you must pay for each page you print out, and you MUST be connected to the internet, otherwise HP will brick the printer, and if you stop paying the monthly sub, they will brick the printer also.

What about brother printers? Photo printing is not their expertise unfortunately. And consumer reports confirms this.

I have also looked into getting a laser printer instead of an inkjet printer, but they generally cant print graphics/photos as good, and the laser printers that CAN print photos very good, as good as a photo lab cost at least $900.

I’m not really sure what to do, I guess I will order a photosmart 7520 from ebay as a first solution.