Sick of HP - is there anything that prints - all the time?

I think it was the new OS upgrade that finally broke me on this. I've got an HP PSC 750xi that is the devils' spawn. It works when it wants, scans if it thinks I'm not looking and copies only if I cuss at it. It's been like this for a very long time so I don't think the recent OS caused it. But what has happened is that HP didn't supply a driver for 10.5 so I'm using a Gutenprint driver and can't get full color printing. It looks like crap and I need to present color prints to clients. (I've replaced all ink and ran tests and still...no color...just reddish and black.)
So I'm ready to go dump this thing off a tall building but want something that WORKS. Seems Apple and printers don't like each other so is there anything out there that will print color, scan and copy and (gasp) actually work? Reliably? I just can't take this anymore. I've never had luck with HP but it seems that is all Costco carries.
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As for scanning, I can't recommend yet any scanners which work with Leopard, as mine no longer does. Probably best to search the various scanner vendors on my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/macosxnative.html
And wait for one to release Leopard compatible drivers. Until then, you can dual boot Leopard and Tiger on the same machine, by having an external hard drive that has Tiger on it. Since your Macs in your profile sound like they are all PowerPC, you should get a Firewire hard drive from http://www.macsales.com/ or http://www.cooldrives.com/ to do this.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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