Another valuable opportunity for airship to castigate HP printers...
For the purposes of balance, I think you should limit the extent of that comment to inkjets. HP lasers are perfectly good (although Xerox colour lasers are better than HP colour lasers, you can't beat HP black & white lasers.... they're real solid workhorses and will take years of abuse before they need an overhaul).
I can however extend your comment in another direction... don't buy Kodak ink jets.