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Post by Lynnrose on Oct 24, 2012 8:24:32 GMT
Mmmmmmm, my son has asked me to find him a printer with 'cheap' ink....his words lol
My printer is an HP Photosmart P1000....fantastic for the stuff I do on it, but he will not want anything that ''posh'' lol It will be mainly used for printing college homework and that's about it, so the best, least expensive and of course value for money ref ink usage.
So, go for it CIT'ers...what do you reckon? ;D
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Post by elvis on Oct 24, 2012 8:52:14 GMT
Have a look on www.amazon.co.uk/ LynnRose £20 up for basic printer Scan, Copy, Print if you see one just type in printer number for ink cartage's as i get mine ink cartage's from Amazon or Ebay.
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Post by jojo on Oct 24, 2012 12:37:20 GMT
I'm using this Lynnrose. h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01758526&cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&product=3811337All in 1. cheap at 35 bucks. 3 colour and black ink cartridges. Mine seem to last ages. Scanning is good. Looking around, having a problem finding a link. Presumably, since it's over a year old, might be ancient!! But presumably there is a replacement. I bought mine after my last one, which cost me 250+ bucks, broke down or something. Decided to go for cheap and cheerful. Not been disappointed to be honest. Think sometimes we spend too much of these things and they aren't designed to last very long anyway.
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Post by Lynnrose on Oct 24, 2012 14:50:01 GMT
Thanks guys....been trawling through a few. I thought maybe a laser with just black printing, but he has now said he wants colour too.
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Post by buzzy on Oct 24, 2012 15:34:09 GMT
Epson printers are reasonably priced and 'compatible' ink is quite reasonable too from places like "Choice Stationary"
www.choicestationery.co.uk/
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Post by vikingken on Oct 24, 2012 15:37:28 GMT
The little Canon Pixma are cheap and very good Lynnrose. I know they want to stick a scanner on everything now, but I think you can still get them without. Unless of course you want an all in one.
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Post by jojo on Oct 24, 2012 17:20:33 GMT
You know ken, before I bought my last printer, I wanted something that would print really good photo, so went for an Epson Photosmart, using a load of different inks but which didn't have a scanner.
Worst mistake ever, for so many reasons.
Firstly, I so missed a scanner. I did buy a separate one, of course, but it took up extra space, was always covered in books and paper and seemed to take ages to set up. Needless to say the photo printer was nothing special, cost an absolute bomb to buy and even more to use.
The cheep and cheerful option is actually working out so much better. I have a scanner, ink is cheaper and frankly, few people notice any difference in print quality between the 6 (or was it 8) colour photo printer and my current 3 colour one. I have tried printing photos with both.
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Post by johnnybee on Oct 24, 2012 21:59:41 GMT
From my albeit limited experiences with printers, I'd say certainly go for the cheapo option wherever possible, simply because most manufacturers tend to discount the purchase price of the printer and artificially raise the price of the ink refills. That might make fiscal sense from a maker's POV, but to us users it's an escalating expense. I still use my HP Photosmart as it's handy for printing pics directly from a memory chip; the inks aren't all that dear - recycled carts are just as good as the originals and half the price. The opther option I personally would pursue is using a standard Epson Photo, the earlier type that used four cartridges; there's a commercially-made kit for them that uses four slave print heads that are fed remotely from 250ml bottles. They're compatible with the Epson firmware - no silly warnings - and run out at about a third the cost per sheet for black, and around a quarter the cost for colour. The kit itself is about £65, but that includes four full bottles of ink and the hardware to go with it; with normal use you'd be onto a winner after about six months use - worth looking at anyhow.
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Post by Lynnrose on Oct 25, 2012 4:38:11 GMT
Thanks everyone for all your tips which I shall be checking out later
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Post by jojo on Oct 25, 2012 11:14:18 GMT
Anyone remember the days when most printers had an envelope print function?
Now it's difficult enough to get it to recognise A4 paper instead of that US nonsense.
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Post by vikingken on Oct 25, 2012 23:59:24 GMT
Sounds like you set your printer up and forgot to change from US to UK English Jojo. Both my printers print envelopes and I have to keep a rule handy, as I get my B and C numbers mixed up. Dont really have any trouble with A4, thats as big as the HP prints. The trouble I get with the A3; if I forget the A4 tray is empty, it will print A4 size on an A3 sheet. For that reason I only keep ordinary paper in the trays and add photo paper when and where required. If I stipulate an odd measurement for an envelope, both printers will tell me if I haven't got the right size envelope loaded. I use Word for printing envelopes, about the only time I use Word. Most of my photo printing is set up in Publisher. Unless I'm printing A4 size photos, I normally layout on A3. This gives me the abillity to print different size photos with minimum waste of paper.
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Post by Lynnrose on Oct 26, 2012 9:18:22 GMT
My son has ordered this one and I found him a 12% discount code, so he got it for £48.39
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Post by vikingken on Oct 26, 2012 10:22:58 GMT
A friend of mine uses a Kodak Lynnrose; I don't know what model, probably the cheapest one. She had one that popped its clogs when it was about 2 years old. She bought another, because she says they are very cheap to run and if they go for 2 years its fair enough. I think their advert about how cheap they are to use, might be a slight exageration.
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Post by Lynnrose on Oct 26, 2012 10:25:30 GMT
Thanks KC, fingers crossed that he gets some decent use out of it
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Post by jojo on Oct 26, 2012 11:27:20 GMT
Good idea ken. Any suggestions how I do that?
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Post by vikingken on Oct 26, 2012 12:25:14 GMT
How to do what Jojo??
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