Printer recommendations

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Hi, i'm in the market for a new printer, my current one is several years old now and on the way out. I have a budget of say £50-£60. It must be wireless and compatible with Windows 7. I know ink prices are a factor but don't worry about that when making any recommendations.

Thanks for any recommendations.
 
I think second hand soho printers are the best option for that price bracket. Preferably the simpler the better, so I would avoid wireless and instead run an ethernet cable between the printer and the router (or switch, or access point... whichever you're using).

It's too easy to buy a shiny new do-everything printer which proceeds to bleed ink and eat paper, then kill itself. Particularly if buying from the ranges where it's cheaper to replace the printer than to replace the ink cartridges.

My reasoning is that I'm currently sitting beside a new £50 Epson BX300F and a roughly ten year old HP 2200DN which cost me something like £50 a few months back.

The Epson is a flashy waste of space. It'll photocopy after a fashion, and it came with a lot of free ink which it's almost exhausted after 150 pages or so. It wont print a black document because it's run out of cyan, even though it has black ink left and I've just replaced the cyan. It chews up paper if you try to load more than twenty sheets into the tray at a time.

The HP pre-dates windows XP, doesn't do wireless, colour, fax or photocopying. It has however printed 500 sheets on the second hand toner cartridge it came with, and has got every one of them spot on.
 
Thanks and appreciate the advice. I'm not after an all in one printer. I'm just after a new printer (only) in my price range that has wireless capabilities. Thanks again.
 
I got an Epson Stylus SX515W for my sister a few weeks back and it's been great for her usage, cant speak of it from my own experience as i am still using a much older model BUT the Epson Stylus SX515W is around £20 over your budget and it's an all-in-one.

I can say that wireless works flawlessly and it works fine under windows 7.

any particular reason you dont want an all in one?
 
I just don't require an all in one but it could be quite handy I suppose. I'll take a look at that model. Cheers.
 
Canon --> Always used Epson printers with compatible inks, using a Canon ip4300 with compatibles its way better than an Epson. I'v done a bucket load of colour prints apart from documents as well, it still prints like new 2 years old and can't remember the last time l cleaned the printer heads.
 
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