I currently have a cheapo lexmark i brought in january sale a couple of years ago for £30 and it has served me well but i am fed up with paying £20 odd quid for each ink cartridge.

Can anyone reccomend another cheap printer with cheaper cartridges?

ps all i use it for is printing sheet music and the occasional hw for my sister

Those new Kodak printers they've been advertising on the TV look interesting - the ink cartridges are really cheap, even at the rrp.

Don't know how well they work though!

Until I read the thread properly, I was going to say DON'T buy a Lexmark for the reasons you've said.

I've found HP as good as anything, and the cartridges are cheap for pattern ones from places like ink4u etc.

JB


[Edited on 25/11/09 by Daddylonglegs]

i always try to go for ones with seperate ink tanks for each colour.

canon's do that. means you only replace each individual colour when it runs out instead of having to replace them all when you've only used black

had a couple of canons and well pleased with all of them. the current one we've had since 2003

Really is point less buying anything but HP and live with the ink cost which isn't too bad anyway on the Officejet and PSC models that have the option take XL ink catridges

Cheapo laser, assuming you only do B&W

Mine was £40-ish over a year ago, I've not needed to replace any toner as of yet, but when I do it's cheap enough.

Any of the Canon range with seperate ink cartridges

I should declare an interest- I've been doing some marketing work for Kodak recently.



As David says, you won't get anything cheaper to run than a Kodak.

Try http://www.printandprosper.com for some independent price comparisons.

The cheapest Kodak printer does cost £89.99 retail though (although may be cheaper online).

The photo print quality is pretty good but I'd say HP is better.

Long term, the overall cost of a Kodak is cheaper than the competition. Just depends whether you can take the initial £89.99 hit!

The cartridges really are good value though: £6.99 black, £9.99 all 5 colours especially as they print twice as many sheets as the average 'other brand' cartridge.

Hope that helps,
James

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Originally posted by UncleFista
Cheapo laser, assuming you only do B&W

Mine was £40-ish over a year ago, I've not needed to replace any toner as of yet, but when I do it's cheap enough.

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I like HP, but I do colour work, so there might be something better for b&w

Refill your cartridges, buy the ink from Asda. I used to use a Lexmark on average I could refill a cartridge 13-15 times before the jets got tatered
Cheers,
Bob

get one that takes these kits and carts are a thing of the past

What does it do?

This continous ink supply system replaces the need for changing inks for the printer, this is ideal for high volume use and also works out a lot cheaper to run than compatible inks which are cheap enough as it is! Basically you have 6 tanks of ink which sit at the side of the printer and tubes run from this into a dummy ink cardidge which plugs into the printer as normal. There is a line running from the cartidge to the tanks and it continually supplies the printer with ink from the tanks. When the tanks are running low you basically top it up with ink which we also sell for very cheap.

http://www.3000rpm.com/acatalog/CONTINUOUS_INK_SYSTEM.html

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i bought a BROTHER all in one network printer off ebay, its a referb by BROTHER, was £58 delivered, its brilliant, quiet, fast and cheap to run, bought a 10 ink pack ( 2 packs or 3 colours + 4 black) £18 delivered to door (again off ebay), been using the inks and they work fine, so on running costs and cost of machine i can highly recommend BROTHER, the referb place on ebay is listed as staplehurst, kent, ordered in the afternoon, was delivered next day, can't rate them high enough, 10/10

Im also very happy with my Canon (ip4000) with the induvidual tanks and the pigment black for text.
- However as said, if you want volume and dont need the colour, a cheap referbished brother laser would be my route too.

I bought my canon of ebay from there referbished stock listings. Loads of them on there, very cheap, shiped with a blocked head and they sent me a brand new one in shrink wrap no questions asked.

In the mean time i got the head under the tap and flushed it and it worked fine, so i have a spare.

Runs find on jettec replicas although i typically actuallu buy the canons as there nearly as cheap if you know where to look and the colours in the replicas are a bit off.

Sisters just bought a multi function canon from the same source, hopfully that works well too.


Daniel

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As said if you dont need colour a laserr is the way to go, If you do need colour canon would be my preference.

I always buy Epson as the ink cartridges can be had off ebay very cheaply

I have clients with many bad experiences with Cannon Bubblejets, same goes for Epson Inkjets.

HP inkjets just don't go wrong, I replaced a HP PSC the other day that according to the printer information page had printed 150,000+ sheets with no major jams.

The golden rule to avoid trouble is buy HP inkjets, Cannon, Brother or HP lasers, Epson dot matrix.

My local morrisions had the HP F2480 printer/scanner/copier for £28 last week with XL catridges that will print 600 normal quality black & white or 400 color before needing more ink. Set it to economy which still very acceptable quality and it will print more like 900 sheets.

As said get a laser. Brother NEW from £60 with toner for about 2000 prints
'A' gades are cheaper still.

Samsung are dearer cartridges

If you need colour; HP, Brother, Canon in that order. Seperate inks do not always work out cheaper. Don't get a 6, 8 or 10 ink machine if you are not printing 'professional' photos, it just costs more. Epson heads block up if not used regularly- you can clean them, but why bother when the others just work.

GeorgeM