Printer for Occasional/light use - Advice

Lumeycom

Lumeycom

Lumeycom

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Hey guys

I'm looking for a printer that will survive occasional use without the ink drying up... is there such a thing?

Its not unheard of for me to not print anything for a month or two but then need to, and my current printer just fails at this due to the printer cartridges being u/s - I assume this is due to drying up. I've tryed a few tecniques found on google to revitalise them to no avail.

I'm also running win7 x64 currently so i guess that narrows the choice down.

Any advice gladly recieved!
 
I've got an old Cannon printer/scanner etc at home, like you I only print every now and then, I've not had a problem with the ink drying up as yet.
 
If you only need B&W then go for a cheap laser, no ink to dry out then. We've got a Canon iSensys LBP3100 which is well under £100 and a couple of pennies a page (including paper) for prints. x64 driver installed fine on Windows 7.
 
I think you’ll find the fast majority of printer’s will suffer from the ink drying on the print head’s if you do not use them regularly, my Epson did this but it was still under guarantee and was repaired at home by a Epson repairman and he advice me to just print the test page off once every two weeks. Basically did this and my printer lasted a good few years and finally died, replaced with a Canon Pixma IP 4300 avery nice printer all round, but these days the printer is used quite a lot so won't have that problem.
 
Hadn't occured to me that a laser printer might be the answer!

B+W would probably do me just fine as I dont really do the photo printing thing etc.

Thanks :)
 
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