spec me ALL IN ONE PRINTER while on sale please

angela · 1 Aug 2011 at 19:35

Hi, thinking to upgrade printer asap, my printer is LEXMARK X3480 about 4 years old- cartridges are expensive and quality is average.

I want to upgrade to a wi-fi all in one printer, as we have 3 PC's in the house.
Printer will be used for documents printing, color documents and maybe photos if it doesn't use loads of cartridge's ink.

I checked well known PC stores and there are printers with up to £100 off.

Don't have knowladge about printers, but Models I was looking at are (all on sale):

HP Photosmart Plus e-All-in-One Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer

HP Photosmart e-All-in-One Wireless Multifunction Printer (£39.00) (cheapest) (if there's no big difference between printers and this models is good (RRP £99?) it would take it as it is quite cheap.

EPSON Stylus SX425W Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer

Lexmark Intuition SE S508

maybe there are better models for price up to £70..?
I also wonder, what is difference between inkjet and standard printers?

Thank you.

Brian8bit · 1 Aug 2011 at 20:00

I have a Samsung wireless laser printer and I hate it. The wifi part that is. It's the most temperamental thing ever. Add to this, the drivers absolutely suck for OSX. I can't even wake the printer up from sleep from my Macs. I have to go into the spare room and wake the PC (which is connected to the printer via USB because I couldn't get wireless to work on that), then wake the printer, then go back and print. If it will send the print at all that is. And similar problems with Windows laptops. It's a PITA to configure. It's a PITA to actually print wirelessly. If it had been cheaper I would have taken it into the back garden and office spaced it already.

In short, whatever you choose, consider the wireless aspect. It's less hassle to save to a USB stick and take it to where the printer is located and do it that way than wrestle with a Samsung wireless printer.

scrlk · 1 Aug 2011 at 20:11

I wish printers were expensive and ink cheap (ie. £3-5 a cartridge). Buying a printer for £50 and spending £30 on new ink for it is mad!

angela · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:39

Brian8bit said:
I have a Samsung wireless laser printer and I hate it. The wifi part that is. It's the most temperamental thing ever. Add to this, the drivers absolutely suck for OSX. I can't even wake the printer up from sleep from my Macs. I have to go into the spare room and wake the PC (which is connected to the printer via USB because I couldn't get wireless to work on that), then wake the printer, then go back and print. If it will send the print at all that is. And similar problems with Windows laptops. It's a PITA to configure. It's a PITA to actually print wirelessly. If it had been cheaper I would have taken it into the back garden and office spaced it already.

In short, whatever you choose, consider the wireless aspect. It's less hassle to save to a USB stick and take it to where the printer is located and do it that way than wrestle with a Samsung wireless printer.

what model is that?

Razor-BladE · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:43

What about the Canon MP495? Seems to get decent reviews and is only £40.

spudbynight · 2 Aug 2011 at 09:44

I recently bought a laser all in one as I don't do much colour printing.

shine · 2 Aug 2011 at 10:21

I've got the SX425W - decent printer not the fastest or best quality for text but it is more then acceptable. Wireless is easy to setup using the provided software, once it's connected to your network there is no need to connect it directly to a PC to it again. Photo printing is very good quality, I printed a photo as Fathers day gift and everyone was convinced I'd gone out and got it printed professionally.

angela · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:12

KODAK ESP C310 Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer for £70 came on my way today in store, what you think about it? ink is very cheap for it

Puppetmaster · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:43

angela said:
KODAK ESP C310 Wireless Multifunction Inkjet Printer for £70 came on my way today in store, what you think about it? ink is very cheap for it

Best off going for one of the ESP's if you can get them, uses the 10 ink instead of 30, which is cheaper to print with.

Hotwired · 2 Aug 2011 at 19:52

Vinni3 @H|H said:
I wish printers were expensive and ink cheap (ie. £3-5 a cartridge). Buying a printer for £50 and spending £30 on new ink for it is mad!

You're thinking of laser printers.

Inkjets are cheap as **** but make their money in the refills. The official refills anyway.

Laser printers cost much more but have better value refills (a cartridge may still be £30 but it'll last longer than a £30 inkjet refill).

Just bought two more 3000 page (5% coverage) toner cartridges for an all-in-one laser for £14 each.

Ok it doesn't do colour but for b/w a laser kicks inkjets all round the room for value.

I've only really wanted colour once this year and turned out greyscale was good enough anyway.

Generious · 2 Aug 2011 at 22:14

I bought a Kodak ESP5200 for the missus and the kids a couple of months back one of the main reason was the price of the ink, printer ink for this thing cost around £20 in total for both black and the colour cartridge.

Does everything that they need plus it's wireless granted I paid around £100 at the time but I would have spent that on the ink for a HP printer after two months anyway.