Printers - does anyone make a good printer?

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At a reasonable price?

Having such a frustrating day today at work with a stupid HP 2105 laser with stupid blinking lights and cryptic symbols that tell me nothing about what the printer is failing at.

Then we have a Canon iP2600 that costs more to replace cartridges than it does to buy a whole new one.

AND all we have are Macs, so we need something that works with Snow Leopard :(


Are all printer manufacturers doing stupid stuff now or is there one that is being reasonable? (Cheaper cartridges available and nice clear operation/buttons)
 
You should read this. May amuse you for a minute.

Do you need colour printing? You're still best off with a laser if you don't and print a fair amount. Generally you'll find, with printers like the iP2600, the less you pay for the printer, the more you pay for the cartridge. Usually because you can't get separate colours, and some of the low end inkjets will even refuse to print without both colour and B&W cartridges with ink inserted!
 
got to ask yourself if you want toner or ink..

If someone had asked me 2years ago who makes a good printer I would have said HP for a toner printer and Lexmark for an ink printer.

But HP has gone down hill in terms of their hardware and software quality.

And Lexmark have got too sucked into the whole all-in-one jobbies.
 
Got a cannon printer at home and tbo find it quite reasonable, Ink isnt cheap for any printer and although you can pick a printer up for £30, Ink will always be expensive. Ive had an epson before and I think that and the canon are the best priced ink's you will get. £18 for colour and £10 for black is standard rate for ink. Ive Tried the non-make stuff as well, used all the ink trying to clean it and stop the streaks so it wasnt worth it.
Thought lexmark and stuff had the most expenive inks, but thats just what ive heard. cheap printers have expensive ink, a ploy used by several companys to rob you on ink after you got the printer. most say its cheaper to buy a new printer when your done with the ink but then it depends on how much you paid for the thing in the first place. look around for £50+ printer and see which one has the cheapest ink, usually works for the best value cartridge.
 
Damn, this whole thing is so annoying, why do we let companies needlessly release dozens of new printer models every year without any real advances. All we get as a consumer is incompatibilities and needless spending :(
 
Kodak.

I've had an ESP3 (sold to my sister when it wouldn't fit in the car when I moved out) and replaced it with an ESP5 when Kodak were doing a special offer.

They're expensive to start with, but at £80 for an all-in-one it's not really that bad. Excellent photo quality (as you'd expect from kodak), the scanner/copier is superb, built in screen if you just want to bung out some photos, it's fast and it's reasonably quiet+easy to set up.

More importantly, the ink is very cheap! £6 for a black cartridge, £8.50 for a colour cartridge - cheaper if you get the special offers from the kodak site, just buy a few cartridges when the offer is on. In 18 months I've saved myself the initial extra price of the printer over Canon/Epson, anything from now onward is just savings - and I'm not even a heavy user.

100% recommended from me.
 
Audigex said:
Kodak.

I've had an ESP3 (sold to my sister when it wouldn't fit in the car when I moved out) and replaced it with an ESP5 when Kodak were doing a special offer.

They're expensive to start with, but at £80 for an all-in-one it's not really that bad. Excellent photo quality (as you'd expect from kodak), the scanner/copier is superb, built in screen if you just want to bung out some photos, it's fast and it's reasonably quiet+easy to set up.

More importantly, the ink is very cheap! £6 for a black cartridge, £8.50 for a colour cartridge - cheaper if you get the special offers from the kodak site, just buy a few cartridges when the offer is on. In 18 months I've saved myself the initial extra price of the printer over Canon/Epson, anything from now onward is just savings - and I'm not even a heavy user.

100% recommended from me.
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thanks for your input, im impressed by their cartridge prices, especially since its direct from Kodak. I usually find company website prices are higher than anywhere else.

Seems legit, £70 for a printer and then cheap cartridges then on, hows the capacity on the cartridges?
 
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