Printer Recommendation?

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I don't use the printer much and it seems every time I do the HP f***ing c*** thing claims to have run out of ink again. :mad::mad::mad:

can anybody recommend a simple colour home printer that doesn't eat ink in £20-£40 gulps every time I want to use it. and I'm not buying another HP...
 
What colour are you printing? If you can do without colour at home I'd go for a mono lazer and get any colour printed as required. You can also get colour lazer but it's more expensive. JJH
 
Any ink jet printer will do the same thing if left. You can get full colour laser printers now for reasonable money but they are still expensive for occasional use. My advice would be take your printing elsewhere if you don't print much or put up with the ink drying and having to replace it all the time.
 
When I was a student I bought a Samsung mono-laser printer for about £50 - they are even cheaper now. This was good enough for most printing and the 2 toner cartridges that came in the box lasted 3 years of an undergrad degree and 2 years of Masters.

For the odd colour sheet needed to go into coursework such as a diagram, I used the library or blagged a friend. The Samsung must have churned out over 2000 sheets as I went through a box of paper taken as part of my redundancy settlement at Xerox (so I was an informed buyer).

Nowadays, I'm more likely to want to scan something to email or save on dropbox, so I have a £30 Canon wifi printer/scanner. This is inkjet and I have been surprised that it does not suffer from the drying up you mention. I have just bought a set of refurbished ink cartridges and they are cheap enough from Amazon or Ebay.

So, if you are very low volume, get a Canon. If you do infrequent but large documents get a mono-laser and blag any colour prints from work or pay the local library etc.
 
Be aware that Canon (and possibly others) have 'ransom ware' as standard; put in some cheap 3rd party cartridges and the feckin thing won't print :blast
 
oblertone said:
Be aware that Canon (and possibly others) have 'ransom ware' as standard; put in some cheap 3rd party cartridges and the feckin thing won't print :blast
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buy refilled genuine ones - the onboard chip tells you the ink is empty but prints fine, just ignore the yellow LED & nag on the computer screen
 
I have an Epson Photo printer 710W, into which I have put some refillable chipped cartridges bought off ebay about 4 years ago. They have been refilled by me many times with cheap bulk ink.

The printer, when checking ink levels is fooled by them and "thinks" they are genuine Epson ones.
 
Been there done that and got as pissed off as you, I gave up on ink jets and bought a Lexmark colour laser printer, £129 delivered with 2000 page cartridges, prints out in a few seconds from sleep, prints double sided, and you can leave it for a few weeks and it just prints out what you want. If I want a photo printed out now I just order one from the many internet printers for a couple of quid. My printer frustration has gone. It's not small, but I don't care about that.
 
Brother printers are easily the best consumer printer i've ever had - and i've had at least one of each of the other companies shite.

Brother works
 
Dont knock out HP too quick the older ones are solid, look out for one of these on flea bay, (HP Deskjet 5150) I have had one for years, totally reliable and inks cheap, and seems to always print straight away even if left for weeks, currently running it from a PC on Windows 7 will take non genuine ink no problems, new is not always best:)
 
I tried a Brother black and white laser and didn't like the result: it dehydrated the paper leaving a cheap feel . I'm not experienced enough to know if that's a laser feature.
 
GrinningGSer said:
I tried a Brother black and white laser and didn't like the result: it dehydrated the paper leaving a cheap feel . I'm not experienced enough to know if that's a laser feature.
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lasers use heat to fuse the ink powder. You need to use an appropriate paper designed to withstand the heat so that it does not curl. Even proper photocopier/laser paper will absorb moisture if stored in the open air. The moisture will evaporate when heated, maybe leading to curl or uneven print.

Businesses worldwide are happy to use laser printers and the quality is generally very good, so much so that many don't bother using printed letterheads nowadays.
 
i recently bought a brother laser a4 black n white printer for about 15 squids - brilliant - it was 5 years ago and is perfect at everything
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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