Home Printer recommendations ?
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Hi
I'm looking to buy a cheap (ish, will £50 do it ? ) Printer for home, will be used mostly for school work, ideally with inexpensive toner replacements when needed, somehow we seem to use a lot.....
Any recommendations ? It looks like Canon might do some good stuff ?
Thanks in advance
S
I've had 2 or 3 Canon printers (Pixma range) over a number of years and they are fine.
This is the one I have:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M06KK9D
(Out of stock at Amazon however). But for £70 you can't go wrong for what you want it for.
And I've just lifted it up and checked underneath - "Made in Vietnam". So that is another plus !
This is the one I have:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01M06KK9D
(Out of stock at Amazon however). But for £70 you can't go wrong for what you want it for.
And I've just lifted it up and checked underneath - "Made in Vietnam". So that is another plus !
The very best thing I did regarding printing was to get a CISS.
I rang a company called city ink express and asked them which printer worked best and took their recommendation.
I used to use printer for work, tried compatible cartridges, laser printer etc, still used about £300 a year in ink.
Using CISS bill was about £40 a year, and so easy, now retired, but still using it for personal stuff, never had an issue.
It’s basically 4 tanks connected by capillary pipes to dummy cartridges. You just fill up the tanks. The ink is in 100ml bottles and cost about £6 a bottle.
I rang a company called city ink express and asked them which printer worked best and took their recommendation.
I used to use printer for work, tried compatible cartridges, laser printer etc, still used about £300 a year in ink.
Using CISS bill was about £40 a year, and so easy, now retired, but still using it for personal stuff, never had an issue.
It’s basically 4 tanks connected by capillary pipes to dummy cartridges. You just fill up the tanks. The ink is in 100ml bottles and cost about £6 a bottle.
I was in this boat 3 weeks ago and went for a Brother HL112 (https://www.argos.co.uk/product/1946417) - £60
The toner is comically cheap from CartridgeSave @ £16 delivered and good for 1000pages
On the Pixmas above; unless you go with a tanked option the inks are comparably expensive ... my last pixma was cheaper to replace with a new printer and inks than pay for just the inks themselves.
The toner is comically cheap from CartridgeSave @ £16 delivered and good for 1000pages
On the Pixmas above; unless you go with a tanked option the inks are comparably expensive ... my last pixma was cheaper to replace with a new printer and inks than pay for just the inks themselves.
Having purchased several types of inkjet printers from various manufacturers over the years I would suggest you avoid buying any of them unless you are going to use the printer on a regular basis. The heads tends to block up and they eat ink on the initial start-up cleaning routine. Some of the printers have chips embedded in them to stop you from using pattern cartridges.
Unless you are printing high end graphics then perhaps take a look at mono laser printers which have a very small footprint, are cheap to buy and run, and go for ever, I've bought HP in the past but my last two purchases have been a Samsung mono ML2165W laser which is about as simple as you can get, and another Samsung (though I forget the model number) which was a mono laser printer copier scanner which has replaced the photocopier at work. Neither of them communicates particularly well with my MacBook Pro I use, and from what I have read on the forums many other folks suffer the same niggling issues.
I do wish I had bought one of the Brother printers, they seem to get good write ups on many forums despite them not being so 'shiny' as the other brands, but at the end of the day you want a reliable cheap to run printer that offers good quality prints and I do think the Brother printers are able to provide this - aside from which, £16 for a replacement cartridge is stunningly good value!
Unless you are printing high end graphics then perhaps take a look at mono laser printers which have a very small footprint, are cheap to buy and run, and go for ever, I've bought HP in the past but my last two purchases have been a Samsung mono ML2165W laser which is about as simple as you can get, and another Samsung (though I forget the model number) which was a mono laser printer copier scanner which has replaced the photocopier at work. Neither of them communicates particularly well with my MacBook Pro I use, and from what I have read on the forums many other folks suffer the same niggling issues.
I do wish I had bought one of the Brother printers, they seem to get good write ups on many forums despite them not being so 'shiny' as the other brands, but at the end of the day you want a reliable cheap to run printer that offers good quality prints and I do think the Brother printers are able to provide this - aside from which, £16 for a replacement cartridge is stunningly good value!
Totally agree, inkjets are just a pain in the backside. We don't print a lot so everytime I went to use it the damm thing was crying that one of the cartrdiges was empty. They were just dried up. Now have a tiny HP laser, it just works, toner will do around 1000 pages, so that's about 4 years worth of printing at my current output.
rich888 said:
Having purchased several types of inkjet printers from various manufacturers over the years I would suggest you avoid buying any of them unless you are going to use the printer on a regular basis. The heads tends to block up and they eat ink on the initial start-up cleaning routine. Some of the printers have chips embedded in them to stop you from using pattern cartridges.
Unless you are printing high end graphics then perhaps take a look at mono laser printers which have a very small footprint, are cheap to buy and run, and go for ever, I've bought HP in the past but my last two purchases have been a Samsung mono ML2165W laser which is about as simple as you can get, and another Samsung (though I forget the model number) which was a mono laser printer copier scanner which has replaced the photocopier at work. Neither of them communicates particularly well with my MacBook Pro I use, and from what I have read on the forums many other folks suffer the same niggling issues.
I do wish I had bought one of the Brother printers, they seem to get good write ups on many forums despite them not being so 'shiny' as the other brands, but at the end of the day you want a reliable cheap to run printer that offers good quality prints and I do think the Brother printers are able to provide this - aside from which, £16 for a replacement cartridge is stunningly good value!
Just to echo this. I bought a series of inkjet printers over the last 10 years 'cos cheap. OMFG, everytime I wanted to print something the heads would be dry, the ink would be out of date (WTF?) , one cartridge would be out, etc... My last two inkjets got smashed in printer rage incidents.Unless you are printing high end graphics then perhaps take a look at mono laser printers which have a very small footprint, are cheap to buy and run, and go for ever, I've bought HP in the past but my last two purchases have been a Samsung mono ML2165W laser which is about as simple as you can get, and another Samsung (though I forget the model number) which was a mono laser printer copier scanner which has replaced the photocopier at work. Neither of them communicates particularly well with my MacBook Pro I use, and from what I have read on the forums many other folks suffer the same niggling issues.
I do wish I had bought one of the Brother printers, they seem to get good write ups on many forums despite them not being so 'shiny' as the other brands, but at the end of the day you want a reliable cheap to run printer that offers good quality prints and I do think the Brother printers are able to provide this - aside from which, £16 for a replacement cartridge is stunningly good value!
So I did a bit of digging around and went and bought a Brother all-in-one colour laser. I've had it about a year. Still haven't had to buy replacement toner (I don't do a lot of printing), but the main thing is it sits there doing nothing for weeks/months, and then when I do want to print something it just works!
As said above, not the most modern looking thing, not shiny white, or piano black, but it works.
nmd87 said:
Oh dear, I've just bought an HP inkjet printer! But it was £99 (£49 after cashback from HP) and comes with 2 years of instant ink at 100 pages a month - so should be okay, right?
I bought an HP inklet 5 years ago, have printed 4000 pages in that time. Changed the inks maybe twice, never had a problem.Piersman2 said:
Just to echo this. I bought a series of inkjet printers over the last 10 years 'cos cheap. OMFG, everytime I wanted to print something the heads would be dry, the ink would be out of date (WTF?) , one cartridge would be out, etc... My last two inkjets got smashed in printer rage incidents.
So I did a bit of digging around and went and bought a Brother all-in-one colour laser. I've had it about a year. Still haven't had to buy replacement toner (I don't do a lot of printing), but the main thing is it sits there doing nothing for weeks/months, and then when I do want to print something it just works!
As said above, not the most modern looking thing, not shiny white, or piano black, but it works.
To be fair, I've had my HP Inkjet for 10+yrs and it's been fine. You do have to leave it plugged in and turned on though. I very rarely use it now and it does a little cleaning cycle about once a week, sometimes in the middle of the night! The only faff I've had is very recently the paper got jammed and one of the print heads got damaged - I pressed into service the spare one I'd bought with the machine and it worked despite being about 8yrs out of date.So I did a bit of digging around and went and bought a Brother all-in-one colour laser. I've had it about a year. Still haven't had to buy replacement toner (I don't do a lot of printing), but the main thing is it sits there doing nothing for weeks/months, and then when I do want to print something it just works!
As said above, not the most modern looking thing, not shiny white, or piano black, but it works.
That said, I'm thinking of getting a laser all-in-one. Will the Brother scan to pdf? That's what I mainly do on mine. If so, would you mind posting up the model number, please?
I got a HP OfficeJet 3835 last week from Argos for £39.99. Includes 5 months of free InstantInk (300 pages worth of ink for free, per month) and I've been very impressed with it. The first replacement ink cartridges have already arrived.
Print quality and tray-fed scanning are perfect for home use, especially with the kids now all at home.
Print quality and tray-fed scanning are perfect for home use, especially with the kids now all at home.
Have you looked at ink tank printers? Brother, Epson and Canon all make them. They're inkjets, but use ink tanks (Claimed to last ~ 10,000 pages). All ~ 150 pounds. Otherwise, seem similar in features to the ~ 50-75 pound inkjets. 4 replacement ink bottles at ~ 6 pounds each will last another 10 000.
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