Buying a new printer

[musicmummy]

Hi, Im away to buy a new printer this week and was going away to buy a certain make but my freind says the ink is very expensive for the one i wanted.
Help! dont know what to buy now,

[contaenamhi]

the dearer the printer, the better it is, which also means the dearer it is the more expensive the ink will be for it. epson is usually the dearest printer, they are the best make. not always the easiest to use though.


It depends how much printing you plan to do. with the likes of epson it's directed towards people who want the printer to shoot out hundreds of pages each minute. for home use You can still get a good enough printer, whereas the ink for it isn't too dear. I have a basic cannon printer, and the ink is reasonable enough. Lemark makes good printers, aren't too dear to buy and the ink is cheap enough.

A cheap laser printer is what you want to buy, it prints pages out fast, an inkjet printer is if you don't plan to print alot in a short space of time.

[daffy654]

Don't buy lexmark,the cartridges are far more expensive than other brands.

[ianmunt]

www.makingitgreen.co.uk,are offering a Brother multi-function printer free ,but you have to buy a number of ink cartridges.Might be worth looking at.

[musicmummy]

thanks for the advice, checked that link in the last answer and it aint working.

[webdude]

Think about a laser printer, much more reliable, less expensive to run, and unlike ink jets, they don't fail to print if not used for a while. Look at the Brother HL-2030 costs around �63 inc VAT and the toner cartridges are only �35. Small size, fast 16 page min, USB connection MAC or PC. Price is not an indicator of quality BTW.

[smudge]

I've used many printers when at work, but the one we have at home is an HP PSC 1410 All-In-One (without fax).

It was approx �50 from Staples. The colour ink cartrides are �16.99 & the Black ones are �12.99.

HP PSC 1410

[smudge]

*cartridges

(just got in & my hands are cold)!