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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 14:41:54 GMT
Any suggestions? It's for home use, not that heavily used at all, must also scan, primary concern is cheap cartridges as I know there is considerable variance here.
Current HP has served me pretty well, but seems to need the printhead cleaning every day or two at the moment - I don't know whether to try changing the black ink cartridge first as that's where the issue seems to be.
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Post by johnc on Feb 21, 2019 15:10:27 GMT
I can't recommend any of the cheaper ones. We have had a multitude of Epson and HP printers in the house and the cartridges all cost a fortune and last no time at all.
The guy I am helping to retire over the next year, has just bought an HP machine but it was a small business model which cost about £350 and the quality of that seems pretty good and the cartridges seem to last well.
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 21, 2019 15:46:05 GMT
Someone where I used to work recommended Canon to me a few years ago and I bought one. Amazing device, will scan wirelessly to your mobile phone or PC, you can print wirelessly from your mobile phone, laptop, desktop etc etc. Print quality is good and genuine ink is not that expensive for a branded printer.
Up until then I'd been a fan of HP printers but their software is more prone to issues (in my experience) plus they didn't appear to work wirelessly with the mobile phone.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 21, 2019 15:52:17 GMT
The price of printers is hugely subsidised by the manufacturers and they recoup this cost with the cartridges so it's really difficult to find one that offers cheap refills. I went all round the houses trying to find the best compromise between reasonable purchase cost and cheap refills and gave up. I ended up buying a £60 Canon Pixma which is wifi enabled, scans, prints etc. It was easy to set up and so far it seems pretty good and the ink has lasted quite well - you can change individual ink colours separately and it has quite a large black cartridge. That said. I'm not a heavy user.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 16:29:39 GMT
I have a standard pixma with two cartridge sets rather than six individual cartridges. Mine was £30. Sara who used hers much more found the six individual cartridges worked out much cheaper when you realise that you can be throwing away good ink with the older style cartridges.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2019 17:21:01 GMT
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Post by bryan on Feb 21, 2019 17:59:23 GMT
I bought a brother colour laser printer for about £160 and then a set of pattern cartridges for £40. Cheap as chips and haven't run out yet. I'm sure the supplied genuine cartridges are better quality but these are fine for day to day printing. Does the scanning, copying air WiFi print too
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Post by PG on Feb 21, 2019 18:19:50 GMT
Re the OP - can you change the printheads on your printer? If so might be worth doing that. We've got two HP OfficejetPro all in one's. We've had them about 5 years each and the print heads have all had to be replaced in that time as we quite high volume users. The machine does not tell you to change the printhead, it just prints really badly or not at all when they are going. The ink cartridges are a terrible price (as all HP ones seem to be), so about 12 months ago we switched to non OEM and so far, they are working fine at about 20% of the HP cost.
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Post by Roadrunner on Feb 21, 2019 18:36:21 GMT
We have an Epson ET 2750. One of their 'Eco Tank' models, it has tanks which you fill with liquid ink and this supply is supposed to last for a long time. Four months in of regular use and the ink levels have barely moved.
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Post by LandieMark on Feb 21, 2019 19:24:00 GMT
HP Office Pro. I had a Brother colour laser all in one and it was great but they limit the drum life and a new one was more than the HP.
The HP is smaller, easier to use and I don't think the cartridges are too dear.
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Post by Boxer6 on Feb 21, 2019 19:42:18 GMT
I'm another who's had bad experience with HP, admittedly from a number of years ago now. Both of my own ones were 'home office' printers, which didn't print well even when new, and the cartridges were extortionate. Likewise the 'proper' office one we had at work, 4 separate cartridges and printed OK - IF the software decided to play ball, which was about 50% of the time. Biggest problem was the cartridge cots - £150 each!!! I had a Canon Pixma a few years ago which was fine, though that particular one wasn't WiFi enabled. I swapped it for my current Kodak, which has a 2 cartridge system and they're quite cheap. Quality is pretty good, though the cartridges don't last as long as I'd like. Of them all, plus the various Brother's, Epson's and Lexmark printers at work now, I'd probably go for another Canon.
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Post by Alex on Feb 21, 2019 20:45:30 GMT
We’ve just bought a new HP as the head went on our Canon one and was over £100 to replace. The new HP one was something like £40 (the wife bought it not me) direct from the HP website and came with a free 2 month subscription to their instant ink service which delivers ink as and when you need it based on a subscription for £3.50 a month for 100 pages. For our kids homework and my wife’s school stuff it’s ideal. Not photo quality but we don’t need it to be so that’s fine. It’s a desk jet 3720 I believe. Really compact too.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 8:48:53 GMT
Thanks all, will look into.
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Post by scouse on Feb 22, 2019 10:28:57 GMT
Mrs Scouse has an HP Officejet6830 with HP's ink package - 100 copies/prints a month for £3.49 - they send a new HP cartridge when ever the machine tells them it's running low. Print quality is pretty good for an inkjet and it does the usual scan/copy malarky as well.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Feb 22, 2019 10:40:54 GMT
On a (slightly) related note; in the 90s I had a neighbour who worked at Northumbria University when colour photocopiers were just starting to appear. Half his department would get their tax discs and colour copy them, cut them out with pinking shears and replace it in their tax disc holder on their windscreens. They'd then send the original back for refund of the 11 months tax they no longer needed. It took a close look to spot they were copies and there was no ANPR or computer check of tax disc validity so they got away with it.
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Post by Tim on Feb 22, 2019 11:10:29 GMT
We've got a printer in the house somewhere, we bought it to scan some documents one weekend a couple of years ago and I don't think we've used it since!
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Post by racingteatray on Feb 22, 2019 12:21:59 GMT
Mrs Scouse has an HP Officejet6830 with HP's ink package - 100 copies/prints a month for £3.49 - they send a new HP cartridge when ever the machine tells them it's running low. Print quality is pretty good for an inkjet and it does the usual scan/copy malarky as well. Yes, I bought an HP OfficeJet Pro 6960 with the ink package in January. Bought it precisely because it also scans (most importantly for me, it has a top-loader for scanning multiple pages easily and does double-sided too) and photocopies. I don't remember how much it cost but it was on offer in Currys and under £100 - possibly £70.
So far I am very pleased with it, especially at that price. It was easy to wirelessly set up on both laptops and mobiles, and scanning is very easy to do via a small touchscreen on the front.
I am probably particularly pleased with it because it is so night and day better than our previous Canon Pixma inkjet which I absolutely detested. Unbelievably fiddly scanner, exceptionally slow to print, very noisy, exceptionally picky on how you loaded paper, very heavy on ink and promptly died once it turned three years old. A lesson is not buying something just because it is cheap (I think it cost me £50 in 2016).
I was particularly displeased with the Canon because I'd previously had a fantastic Samsung laser-jet printer/scanner/copier that I'd bought in Moscow in 2006 for lots of roubles (I think over £200), which apart from lasting 10 years, was everything the Pixma was not - I don't think I even ever had to replace the toner cartridge. The only downside it had, apart from price, was that it only printed in black and white.
I was tempted to go back to Samsung, but the only one that did everything I wanted was well over £350 once you'd added all the toner cartridges, so the HP was a compromise.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2019 15:19:50 GMT
The 6830 is the one I have at present. Had six years out of it, and it was noticeably under £100.
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Post by Alex on Feb 22, 2019 18:33:29 GMT
Our Canon was similar to yours racing. It got throug in quite quickly and needed six cartridges. Tbh we never needed pictures printed photo quality as it purported to be able to do so it was pointless and the scanner wasn’t great. Never worked will with phones either and the print head died at just under 3 years old.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 23, 2019 13:30:38 GMT
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