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Can't see a forum for this, not sure where else to put it.

I need a very basic black and white printer. Cheaper the better. It'll be used for printing labels for my wife's Vinted stuff, a couple of labels a week at most.

Printers for me are the worst industry in the world, I absolutely detest the things and the predatory business practices that infest the industry, so the more basic / less faff the better.

Any ideas?

Cheers :)
 
A cheap laser printer wil be cheapest in the long term if you do a lot of printing. Not HP because they lock you in to expensive proprietary cartridges.

EDIT: Or look at a thermal printer as mentioned above.
 
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do you need to print of barcoded labels? if not, you could get the dymo thermal label printer and use 3rd party labels.
tbh the dymo labels aint that bad of a price at the moment as there's a deal on..
 
I find that all printers are bad in one way or another, so I've lost trust in the market. But the best I've seen are thermal printers
 
Hades said:
Not HP because they lock you in to expensive proprietary cartridges.
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And this is my problem. I'd rather set fire to myself than give those evil ***** a single penny. I'm extremely cautious of their hilariously predatory practices so want to avoid at all costs.

slinxy said:
do you need to print of barcoded labels?
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Exactly this, yes.

Jupiter said:
I've lost trust in the market.
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Same, probably over a decade ago.

radderfire said:
The Post Office offers a parcel collection service where they can print the label for you. I've never used it though.
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She already does this, but on Vinted the buyers gets to choose the shipping method and some of them are still print-at-home unfortunately.
 
Honestly, unless you need the flexibility of a full sized printer go with a thermal printer.
Something like the brother ql-700 for about 70-80 quid would be ideal.
 
Another vote for brother, I used to work as a service engineer repairing HP/Konica/Brother, HP were by far the worst to work on, both in terms of design & awkwardness, but also because they wouldn't authorise any repair if the customer was using non-genuine toner cartridges.

Brother were great to work on, plenty of space inside, no screws in utterly stupid places, and they just generally seemed better made and designed
 
Any of the generic 6x4 thermal printers. Compact and just hit print.

If you are after an a4 printer, we replaced our work ones with Epson ecotank ones for FBA labels and it's been much better both cost per print and convenience. Less than 0.3p per page so far after the first replacement ink top up.
 
Back when I was working, Zebra printers were the printer of choice for this function. They're not the cheapest but this is a business expense and quality matters. And in my time they were the standard in the label printing sector for which everybody wrote. Sort of like how laser printers always had HP Laserjet emulation. OCUK's business side may be able to advise you.
 
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