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johnholmes

johnholmes

johnholmes

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greetings all

Its the £64000 dollar question guys and gals so i will keep it short. would only be using it occasionally with most of the printing done by the daughter who is at college. budget is around £150. which one uses the least ink on cleaning cycles or is just the cheapest to run. After googling around i am none the wiser. My old hp photosmart got knackerd cause i didnt print in ages.Let know your thoughts.
Thanks.
 
Kodak printers have the cheapest ink cartridges apparently. I've never used one of their printers though so I can't say how good they are.
 
The all-round best IMHO are Canon. Yes, Kodak have cheap inks, but the quality doesn't compare. You can get Inkrite cartridges which work well in the Canon for most purposes, the scans from mine (MP620) are fine, the software works well. Do make sure you get one with a different cart for each colour - that keeps the cost down as well.

BTW if your HP is like a lot of them and you still have it, the heads are part of the cartridges so a new set of cartridges may well fix it. You need to check before buying, but I would try that first. There are a number of suppliers based in the Channel Isles who will sell you relatively cheap ink.
 
Clav said:
Kodak printers have the cheapest ink cartridges apparently. I've never used one of their printers though so I can't say how good they are.
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Though our old 5100 was certainly cheap we had to replace the print head - wasting a full set of cartridges in the bargain - on at least two occasions. Don't know whether later models are any better but I'm not inclined to drop nearly £100 on a Hero to find out.
 
How good do the prints need to be? Spending big money on a printer is usually for more advanced features.

Canon and Epson has separate ink tanks, not built into the head like HP and Lexmark.

I usually pick up a cheap £30 - £50 Canon / Epson and run it on compatibles until it fails.

Usually get 3 years plus out of them by which time the rubber drive wheels etc are drying out and the unit is starting to struggle feeding paper... and of course another OS has arrived for which there are limited drivers.

Last one I got was an Epson PX720WD on clearance for £80 ... a little over budget but has network, wifi, memory reader, duplex etc and the compatible cartridges are £1 each...

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thanks for replys guys. great forum this.

I think i should mention that i dont really care about print quality as i dont really do photos it will mainly be documents. and also what about chips in new cartridges will that be a problem with compatibles?

@catsfive - tried that my friend still no luck.basically i just use it as a scanner.
@j6m - Is it true that the kodaks will not let you print once it warns you that its low on ink. In other words theres ink left in tank but it wont work until you put new cartridges in. its one of the things that puts me off.
Any final words anyone.

Thanks
 
The Inkrite compatibles come in two versions, with and without a chip. The ones without you have to fiddle around with the original chip. I find the ones with work perfectly well in my Canon.
 
have a kodak esp 5250 currently working for me. im not sure about the low ink not printing but mine still prints when the ink levels have '!' on it.

only thing that i dont like about the kodak is their software. it adds a registry startup for conime.exe even though the actual file doesnt exist.
 
kmax86 said:
im not sure about the low ink not printing but mine still prints when the ink levels have '!' on it.
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To clarify: this only happens once the printer decides you need to replace the cartridge because it is supposedly empty. If I recall correctly I couldn't use the scanner when this happened either.
 
j6m said:
To clarify: this only happens once the printer decides you need to replace the cartridge because it is supposedly empty. If I recall correctly I couldn't use the scanner when this happened either.
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I see, will check this out. thanks for the heads up
 
thanks guys. leaning towards either a canon or epson. Was going to go for a kodak but that malarkey with the low ink puts me right off.
Do all the latest epsons and canons have chips in cartridge?
Thanks in advance
 
I have an Epson PX720WD, great printer + I got a CISS system on it so no cartridges to buy, you do have the outlay of the CISS but after that it’s just ink to buy and the print quality is as good as the original cartridges:):)
 
If you are just printing documents, why don't you just buy a cheap mono laser printer, it'll be much better for the job than an Injet of any kind. And the toner it comes with will probably print 5000 pages. I bought an HP Laserjet 1018 for about 70 quid years ago, and it's been great, absolutely solid and reliable and good quality ...it also has the added advantage of having very lightweight 'drivers' that are circa 6mb rather than the huge bloated installs of your typical Inkjet, and yes I do know you can install just the drivers for some Inkjets which gets rod of said problem.

I doubt they make the one I have anymore but I have noticed plenty of cheap mono lasers around, so provided you don't want to print anything that requires colour, I'd get one of those if I were you.
 
HELLO ALL

@Gizmowithatt - i thought about that but it looked too hard especially that i dont really need colour. Is it hard?

@Moeks - I think your onto something there. Even the colour lasers are pretty cheap.this might be my best option. The samsungs seem to be good.

thanks everyone.
 
I can't see CISS being a solution for the OP - none of them are cheap and they seem to be aimed at photographers, not people printing lots of text.

If it's mostly B&W documents then yes, a laser printer will be the business with the old HP doing the scanning - though do you need copying? If you do can you use the HP?
 
I would also suggest a Mono laser printer. It's the cheapest to run in terms of cost per page and quality is excellent at the same time.
 
johnholmes said:
HELLO ALL

@gizmowithatt - i thought about that but it looked too hard especially that i dont really need colour. Is it hard?

@moeks - I think your onto something there. Even the colour lasers are pretty cheap.this might be my best option. The samsungs seem to be good.

thanks everyone.
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Hi it’s sooo easy, if you can change a plug you can install one, with the Epson printer I have I had to move the lid sensor, it took a few tries but one done, it’s forgotten about;)

If you go down the mono laser printer, make Shure that the toner cartridges can be refilled, as again this can save you a lot of money, I have a Samsung for mono printing and have never bought a toner cartridge just toner to refill the one I have;)
 
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