Printer with 6 different colour cartridges

katies_mum

You may recall I had a printer problem yesterday (which is now sorted) but am still considering a new printer as it would be nice to print the odd photo without a visit to Tesco / Asda etc.

The Hp one I am looking at was on a recent posting and is HP7280. this has one black and 6 colour cartridges - can I ask those of you with printers with lots of different colour cartridges, which colours tend to run out the quickest.
Mine is a combined colour one so havn`t got a clue. I`m sure I`ve read though that certain colours are used more than others.

Thanks for any advice you can give me.

penrhyn

I have the C6280, haven't used it enough but if you want new cartridges 7 day shop sell them a a good price, you can get an XL Black cartridge which should last for ever.
Type 363 as I recall.
The advantage of all the cartridges is that you only need replace the one colour that has run out rather than all three.

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/default.php?cat=2&type=2010&man=33&filterwords=363&go=SEARCH&comp=

savemoney

I tend to buy in bulk, no one colour runs much faster than the other for me although if you print a lot of text black will mostly likely run out quicker.

I buy about 4 packs of each colour so I always have enough in stock until I start to run down to 2 sets of inks then I reorder

I only buy compatibles so I get much more for my money I haven't really had much issues over the years with compatibles accept odd one, being wrong colour or doesnt work

Fifer

My Canon Pixma has 5 cartridges - CMY, phot black and 'general' black. I seem to replace the two black cartridges least. The colours generally last about the same time as each other.

katies_mum

Thanks for the replies, Comet is now out of stock of the one I want, saves me right - should have just ordered it earlier. Back to the drawing board.

penrhyn

HP have it on offer, don't know how the price compares with Comet.
http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/18972-18972-238444-410635-410635-3204782-3382176.html?jumpid=in_rm_r2515_uk_en_dsc_hho_20090106112444968

or maybe the C6380

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF06b/18972-18972-238444-410635-410635-3560272-3560279.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_UKEN

katies_mum

Just got a price match for the comet price with the 10% off at Staples which is about 500m from our house. Just rang on the off chance, it is £122.33 there but they are doing it for £109.62 for me. So well pleased, as the staff in staples are a lot nicer than local comet!
Thanks penrhyn I had just found it on HP and was in the process of looking for discount codes. Had got 10% off but would have to have waited for delivery. I can collect at Staples and get the 14 day return should I change my mind.

DatabaseError

on my epson black and yellow, followed by light magenta

katies_mum

Thanks for reply.

I do tend to go thru a lot of black, it will be different not having all colours in one little box. So I`ll have to monitor it over the next few months.

do the printers actually tell you what has run out? this bit is confusing me.

GaryS

The HP C7280 has a bit of software that monitors the ink levels and warns you every so often.
You can also manually check levels via the software.

savemoney

Epsons have a similar monitoring program every Epson I have had about 10 over the many years also include this

You can also get a 3rd party program http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml

GaryS wrote: »

The HP C7280 has a bit of software that monitors the ink levels and warns you every so often.
You can also manually check levels via the software.