Recommendations for an all in one wi-fi printer please

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Since you are mostly discerning people who have made the wise choice of buying a GS I would be everso grateful for your collective wisdom and experience.:augie
I have read lots of online reviews and am completely confused about printers and scanners.:confused:
I want a box that can print, scan and photocopy to a reasonable standard - usable by both Macs and PCs
It will be used mainly for printing A4 typed pages and very occasionally photos.
It will be low volume stuff but printing envelopes and DVDs/CDs may be useful
The manufacturer is irrelevant to me as long as I can buy the inks
Willing to pay up to £150 for the box alone. I realise inks may well take it up to £200.
What do you know?:thumb
Thanks
Paul
 
been going thru the same recently, decided on an Epson PX720WD (in UK i saw the PX710WD)

wireless works well, i bought a cannon MG5250 a week before and took it back as the wireless was shite....

has individual ink cartridges - copy cartridges can be found on ebay really cheap £7 FOR A COMPLETE SET OF 6 CARTRIDGES!!

If home refilled there is no pissing about with hacking the cartridge sensors as with an HP

(HP have embedded a serial number in the contact strip located on the back of the cartridge. The printer remembers that serial number and gives the message of low or out of ink. The internal memory is located in the printers firmware and is not in the software.

It will remember the previous two cartridges ink level. :eek)

Print quality is very good and quick, as with the scanner

Cant fault it so far.
 
Another vote for Epson, I've got an SW667E which I think has been upgraded now and given a new model name/number, it was easy to set up and works beautifully.
 
I have a Epson Stylus BX600FW Inkjet Multifunction Printer. It works well.

Street price is around £130, and you can get a Continuous Ink system on ebay for about the same price as a set of cartridges.
 
If you are interested in the Epson this link might be of interest.
 
Lexmark X4650

wildbeeste said:
Since you are mostly discerning people who have made the wise choice of buying a GS I would be everso grateful for your collective wisdom and experience.:augie
I have read lots of online reviews and am completely confused about printers and scanners.:confused:
I want a box that can print, scan and photocopy to a reasonable standard - usable by both Macs and PCs
It will be used mainly for printing A4 typed pages and very occasionally photos.
It will be low volume stuff but printing envelopes and DVDs/CDs may be useful
The manufacturer is irrelevant to me as long as I can buy the inks
Willing to pay up to £150 for the box alone. I realise inks may well take it up to £200.
What do you know?:thumb
Thanks
Paul
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Paul,
I bought a Lexmark X4650 from my local Morrisons for £30 a while ago and it is excellent, it prints, scans, copies and sends direct to email from the printer.

john1215
 
Had an Epson a while back and hated it.

Have a Canon Pixma MP560 for last year - paid£150 for it which is a shame as you can get them for about £80-90 now.

Like it a lot, paper tray underneath, will double side automatically, 5inks, memory card readers, wireless through a wireless router.

Would have another one.
 
Thanks for all the replies
I tried to buy an Epson PX720WD from Very.co.uk yesterday.
There are discount codes that only apply if you take out credit with them so I did and then when I reached the check out the discounts were not applied. Called them up and after a long wait eventually cancelled the order. :blast
I will look at other options later today
Thanks again
Paul:thumb2
 
Greger said:
Had an Epson a while back and hated it.

Have a Canon Pixma MP560 for last year - paid£150 for it which is a shame as you can get them for about £80-90 now.

Like it a lot, paper tray underneath, will double side automatically, 5inks, memory card readers, wireless through a wireless router.

Would have another one.
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The other advantage of the newer Canons is that the paper exit cover will open automatically if you've forgotten to open it before printing, as much as I like Epsom printers they could do with it on their machines, I've seen at least half a dozen thrown away because the printer heads are broken as a result of a paper jam caused by the dust cover being left closed during printing.

As for Lexmark, I can't afford to refill them, it's cheaper to buy a new printer than buy new Lexmark cartridges.
 
Canon-PIXMA-MG5250-Colour-Printer

Having been directed towards Canon and again having read reviews I have decided to wait until the Canon-PIXMA-MG5250-Colour-Printer is released on the 31st October 2010.
It does everything I want (and more) and appears to have a higher spec than the existing pricier versions from Canon
Link to Amazon
The price is £121.34 delivered

For all the Epson fans I would have bought one but the faff over buying one and then making sure that I was buying a SX model rather than a BX model or a workforce or a stylus office model or even the SR scanner all of which have the same 610 number ultimately led me to say :pullface
 
Dickieboy said:
The other advantage of the newer Canons is that the paper exit cover will open automatically if you've forgotten to open it before printing, as much as I like Epsom printers they could do with it on their machines, I've seen at least half a dozen thrown away because the printer heads are broken as a result of a paper jam caused by the dust cover being left closed during printing.

As for Lexmark, I can't afford to refill them, it's cheaper to buy a new printer than buy new Lexmark cartridges.
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the PX720 opens perfectly :rob
 
I bought an HP wireless all in one and although pretty IT savvy gave up trying to get the Wi-Fi working and took it back to shop. Then I bought a Canon MP 640 as recommended by some of the Mac magazines. It is fantastic.

On my wife's PC it was a no-brainer connecting to wi-fi via the supplied install disc. On my iMac and Macbook Pro the computers automatically detected it, installed the software and connected it via wi-fi.

-Print quality for text is great

- Print quality for photos is (as reviews said) superb.

- Prints directly to DVD/CD

- Handles duplex printing easily but a bit slow.

- Separate ink tanks that are very easy to change. Open top and change the one with the flashing LED.

- Two types of paper can be loaded, one in under tray and one in rear tray.

- Looks smart with aluminium finish looking great next to an iMac.

- Print directly from mobile phones etc with a £3.00 Bluetooth dongle plugged in socket under front cover.
 
andyclift said:
I bought an HP wireless all in one and although pretty IT savvy gave up trying to get the Wi-Fi working and took it back to shop. Then I bought a Canon MP 640 as recommended by some of the Mac magazines. It is fantastic.

On my wife's PC it was a no-brainer connecting to wi-fi via the supplied install disc. On my iMac and Macbook Pro the computers automatically detected it, installed the software and connected it via wi-fi.

-Print quality for text is great

- Print quality for photos is (as reviews said) superb.

- Prints directly to DVD/CD

- Handles duplex printing easily but a bit slow.

- Separate ink tanks that are very easy to change. Open top and change the one with the flashing LED.

- Two types of paper can be loaded, one in under tray and one in rear tray.

- Looks smart with aluminium finish looking great next to an iMac.

- Print directly from mobile phones etc with a £3.00 Bluetooth dongle plugged in socket under front cover.
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i also considered HP but as i use refill kits the pissing about with bypassing the software for the cartridge put me off - HP went to quite a lot of effort to stop people refilling their own cartridges.

thats why i went for epson, a set of new cartridges is only £7 :beerjug:
 
Minor update on what make to choose.
I went to a local shop that mostly refills ink cartridges but also sells Brother printers

This was the summary.
HP - expensive - do not print CDs - wifi can be problematic
Epson - brilliant as long as used at least once a week because the ink heads dry up and it takes several cycles of cleaning to get them working again (if at all)
Brother - well he stopped trying to even sell me one after about ten seconds and I had not even said anything
Lexmark - Everybody stops using them after a short while as the cartridges are so expensive (and I believe cannot be refilled)
Canon - Just buy one

So as I sometimes do not print for a week or two it is going to be a Canon
Hope this is of some use to others as well
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Paul
 
wildbeeste said:
Minor update on what make to choose.
I went to a local shop that mostly refills ink cartridges but also sells Brother printers

This was the summary........

Lexmark - Everybody stops using them after a short while as the cartridges are so expensive (and I believe cannot be refilled)

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Paul
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Re the seemingly expensive Lexmark ink, if you buy at some places yes I agree but prices at www.7dayshop.com are very good.

john1215
 
Samsung laser all in one

Try a Samsung all in one colour laser printer/scanner/fax etc.
i bought one over a year ago - thinking I had bought the above, & ordered the wrong one, so I bought the colour printer only.

They are suberb. One can refill the black cartridge several times before it crashes, and afterwards install a bypass chip, so all cartridges may be refilled infinitely. (Chip under £40.00)

Well worth a look at.
See, for example:
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/7953827/Samsung-CLX-3175FW-XEU-Multifunction-Wireless-Colour-Laser-Printer/Product.html?_%24ja=tsid:11518|cc:|prd:7953827|cat:Print

Myke
 
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