Printers

[pilgrim]

Does anyone have any reccomendations for a home printer below £100 that does not involve a money making subscription scheme for inks or drivers?  Amazon reviews tend to be 50/50 split on them being shite or glowing reviews.

Does anyone use a home printer these days?  Or do they use one at work?  I live in a remotish area so there are no businesses offering a print service.

[daviemac]

I've never had a problem with Epson XP range, inks are far cheaper than Canon.

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[catweazle]

I have an HP Laserjet printer that I "inherited" from a former employer ( they seemed to forget I had it when I left). Must be 14/15 years old now, still works perfectly, and it takes recycled/refilled cartridges.

[scutty brown]

Colour or monochrome?

[timsussex]

Cheapest printers to run are either Laser or Ecotank - 0.2p per page B&W or 0.5p color

You can get an ET 1810 for around £100 inc the Epson £40 cashback this month

Otherwise Printerland.co.uk gives easy comparison of costs 

[RandomGuy99]

Laserjets are good but more than £100

Canon PIXMA are good and you can get after market replacement inks for £20 for an entire set

[timsussex]

Laserjets are good but more than £100

Canon PIXMA are good and you can get after market replacement inks for £20 for an entire set

£100 inc lots of ink
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[Watts.E.Dunn]

Probally a bit outside your price band but comes with 3 years of ink is a copier and a fax machie and works very well indeed:)

Just gave up with most others the price of Ink being a rip off!

Brother MFC-J1300DW Printer

[The_Don]

Does anyone have any reccomendations for a home printer below £100 that does not involve a money making subscription scheme for inks or drivers?  Amazon reviews tend to be 50/50 split on them being shite or glowing reviews.

Does anyone use a home printer these days?  Or do they use one at work?  I live in a remotish area so there are no businesses offering a print service.

Depends on what you want to print, (text, images, other, etc) and how often

Used and owned a few over the years. From dot matrix, ribbon, bubble jet, ink jet (with CD printing) and laser (b/w and colour)  - Not used thermal disk printing yet!

Currently I've got (at home) 2 old-ish (600 and 1200 DPI) second hand b/w lasers (both HP). Re manufactured toner cartridges (with chips) can do, up to several thousand pages of printing, for cheap (IMO).

Also lasers can last. I've seen some HP units (with maintenance kits used), do over a million pages. Some business upgrade and sell the old units for cheap.   

Inkjet with the correct paper do nice-ish pictures, at a cost (IMO). But heads can go bad and they don't always age well (I've binned my far share, over the years).






 


   
 

[scutty brown]

this looks a good deal

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[myothernameis]

subscription scheme for inks

I find the ink subscription quite reasonably priced at £3.99 for replacement ink, compared to £20 in the shop

[RandomGuy99]

It really depends on what features you want e.g. print only or do you want scan and photocopy too? Single sided or do you want two sided printing? Colour or black and white? How many pages are you going to be printing and how often? How fast do you want the printing done? If you want colour do you want one cartridge or individual cartridges for each colour - might be cheaper to run?  Do you want a document feeder?

[pilgrim]

I was after a very basic printer to do possibly three or four pages a week of black and white, letters invoices ect. Preferably seperate colour B/W cartridges.  Thank you for all the replies. I have ordered a printer and ink package as suggested by daviemac.

I can see printers going the way of cameras, DVD players, Disc drives on computers ect.  There is a presumption out there that you have a smart phone and you must use it for most things.

[Stevelondon]

I was after a very basic printer to do possibly three or four pages a week of black and white, letters invoices ect. Preferably seperate colour B/W cartridges.  Thank you for all the replies. I have ordered a printer and ink package as suggested by daviemac.

I can see printers going the way of cameras, DVD players, Disc drives on computers ect.  There is a presumption out there that you have a smart phone and you must use it for most things.

A smartphone that can print also. Now there’s a thought. !

[myothernameis]

Some shops are now selling portable printers, but these printer only print of photos 10cm x 8cm, but guess there more of a novelty printer

£20 for the printer, and around £15 for paper and ink refills