A few years ago I paid a little more for an HP printer not unlike this model, thinking the extra cost would be worth it for a good printer that I planned to keep for many years. Unfortunately, when I bought my new system, it came loaded with Windows ME, and guess what... my printer no longer worked. HP discontinued the model and stopped providing drivers for it. I suppose the hope is you'll buy a new printer everytime you uprgrade your system... or be forced to. Now I have an expensive, erratic printer whose output quality is comparable to that of the lowest end model. I won't buy an HP product again.