All-in-one Printer

[Ice Globe]

I was wondering whether you could recommend me an all-in-one printer with a budget of up to £75. It will only be printing infrequent documents and having the use of a scanner and photocopier.

I must admit I've been put off printers quite significantly following my experience with an Epson Stylus R220. I probably only printed about 20-30 pages, mostly B&W, yet got through 3/4 of all the colour cartridges. It drove me up the wall how much cleaning it needed to do prior to each print and all the colour ink it was chewing through printing B&W documents; then when the colour ran out I couldn't print B&W despite having 1/2 a black ink cartridge and hence I wasn't going to go and buy £30 worth of colour! Then there's all the software and extra drivers which cropped up everywhere but fortunately I guess with windows 7 things should run a bit smoother.

Have printers changed or will I still be getting immensely frustrated with these things?

 

[Tealc]

In my experience a printer's job, at least according to the manufacturer, is to make money from sale of ink/toner. Every printer I've had, apart from one I had at work once, has wasted loads of ink with their ridiculous cleaning and aligning cycles.

These days I run two printers. A Samsung mono laser which I DIY refill for £15 every thousand or so prints and a HP all in one which hardly ever gets used.

I made sure that when I bought each that they didn't have chips or anything that couldn't be worked around to allow me to refill if needed. With the laser it will print about 5000 and then needs a chip shorting out to make it continue to use the starter cartridge, which I am still using 3 years after purchase.

I think the printer that costs a little more and uses separate ink tanks to print heads is the best bet. I'm not sure which they are at the moment though but certainly not HP or Lexmark.

 

[Rik1254]

I hate printers. I was abit naive when I bought my Dell laptop and it came with a half price wireless printer (this was like 3 years ago, so wireless printers were pretty **** hot then).
3 years on, Ive never bought another ink cart. for it as theyre like £40 for a small set and £50+ for the larger set.
You can get them for like £15 on *insert preffered auction site here*, but stuff like ink cart.'s need to be new with me.