Printer Recommendations

In an ideal world, every printer would work as advertised and work perfectly with Windows.  Unfortunately, there are some that don't quite work in all situations.  

This is usually a problem with the "driver", which is the piece of software that's used when an application (like Campground Master) sends a formatted page to the printer through Windows.  Drivers have been a continual problem for Windows users -- they can have bugs that cause a crash when printing, lock up Windows, or just don't create the output as expected.  If you experience a problem related to printing, the first thing you should do is go to the printer manufacturer's web site and see if they have an updated driver for your printer.

In our experience, Hewlett Packard still makes the best printers and has the most compatible and bug-free drivers (they have the money to fund expert development, and  very good history and experience).  Epson is also one of the better ones, but we've always felt that their printers aren't quite as robust.  So our primary recommendation is always Hewlett Packard.

One brand in particular that we suggest you avoid is Lexmark.  Their drivers are notoriously buggy, and we had to program a work-around to avoid one of their major bugs.  Some newer Lexmark drivers have more problems of not showing the proper output (blank areas on receipts, for instance).  At this point we cannot guarantee that printed output will be correct on Lexmark printers.