What printer?

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:) Im coming up to college, printer has broken (My Canon I320)

What do I get, I would prefer a canon? Are they still the best, had this printer 4 years so don't really know..

What do you reccommend, I will be printing a fair amount, so, bigger cartridges are best. - Havent got the money for getting new ink's 24/7 like I was doing...
 
I have a canon pixma IP4000 which is horifically underused, I use it mainly for simple word processing work :rolleyes:

Its a great photo printer and your best bet in the £100 region.
 
Just a note, dont buy a cheap printer. This usually means expensive ink cartridges.

Before buying a printer always check the prices of ink cartridges. I remember my Epson C80 cost me about £60 everytime I wanted to upgrade ink which is silly.
 
Canon Pixma printers do indeed rock.... Highly highly highly x10000000 reccommended :D

What sort of printing will you be doing? CDs, photos, word processing, colour docs, etc?
 
If you can afford it, get a 3110Cn Dell colour laser - the cost per page, speed and quality just destroy inkjets completely for everything except photo printing.

Yes, it costs £257 delivered to buy it. Yes, each colour toner costs £45 and the Black toner is £30, but those do 2000 pages and 4000 pages respectively.

Compare that to an Inkjet that does 500 pages tops from a £30-£60 set of cartridges.

And the speed difference is amazing. On a long-ish (10-15 page mixed colour & black) report, the laser will take 30-60s to think about it and then spew all *** pages out in about 20 seconds. The inkjet will take several minutes at best.

And you don't need special paper either.

And did I mention it does automatic duplex printing?

One tip though - get it delivered to the college halls - it's REALLY heavy! :D
 
I've got a HP PSC 1350 and it's brilliant. Printer, scanner and photo copier, very easy to use, tho I kind of hate the software that comes with the driver and I can't find a way to just install the driver and ignore all the other software because I don't use them. (Takes up approx 400mb of my space for doing nearly, nothing.)

However, good quality photo prints and the printer cart isn't that expensive - because I buy refilled cart from my university (most uni or around will sell them at usually 50 to 60% of the retail price)
 
spacegrass said:
I have a canon pixma IP4000 which is horifically underused, I use it mainly for simple word processing work :rolleyes:

Its a great photo printer and your best bet in the £100 region.

1 problem. They do not make it any more.
 
A[L]C said:
they do make the ip4200 which i have. Excellent printer but you cant get compats for it :(

It's a shame there are no compatables. The OP was looking for a printer that was going to be cheep to run. I have a IP4000 and pay just under £9 for a set of cartridges whereas the IP4200 costs over £40 a set. The latest Canons are just to expensive to run. If you do lots of printing and you want cheep then Epson is the way to go and if your printer only lasts 6 months so what, chuck it and get another one out of the money you have saved on cartridges.
 
i always use epsons for the main reason that compatible ink carts are only £1-£1.50 :D
 
sjohal2006 said:
Erm, the canon ip4000 looks great.£9 a fill is not bad.

I will be doing word processing and photos (sometimes)

You can not get the IP4000 any more.
 
Another vote for the HP PSC series hardly uses any ink especially in draft mode. Somehow the draft prints still have dark colours not the lightened grey effect of most printers. Is perfect for coursework and photo prints are passable as well.

Never buying an Epson again my R200 eats the ink and its about £40 each time you need to buy new cartridges for it.
 
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