What printer?

[zoe22]

Help! We need a new printer as our home one is now Fubar.

Has to replace a HP 840c, mainly used for black and white documents but with a bit of colour for logos etc. Cheap ink cartriges are preferable too!

Aimimg to spend no more than £100 really, ideally needs to be quite compact as the space it resides is a bit tiddly (no top loading tray would be great)

Any suggestions for the best with these spec would be appreciated thanks!

[sparkythecat]

Which magazine recommend the Canon Pixma ip2000, ip3000 or ip4000 all around the £100 mark form online suppliers.

[whittaker52]

Its also well worth taking into account the price of ink to run the printer, as this could make running the printer fairly expensive, especially if you need to do a fair bit of printing. My dad bought an Epson D88 a few months ago, and that really seems to drink ink, and the ink is fairly expensive (£17 for a full set of inks). I ended up just buying a lexmark Z617 for doing my basic printing for checking layouts etc, and i use a little HP photosmart printer for any photos i need to print.

check out play.com or pricestorm.com for prices on ink cartridges, they seem to do some of the best deals ive found.

>> Edited by whittaker52 on Thursday 30th March 10:00

[percy flage]

I recently bought a Brother DCP-117C for £80, which included a set of cartridges. (priced at £34 for the four or about £8 each as separates)

It has no fax on it but the Printer/Scanner are both more than adequate for home use. Does a decent enough photo print.

It uses four cartidges - black, magenta, cyan and yellow, rather than a composite cartridge for the three colours.

Print speed is pretty good and it is TINY!!!

I'm well pleased with it.