I wanna Printer please :)

prozak

Hey everybody I was wondering if anybody could help me out with finding a new printer, I have 3 requirements really,
1: The printer needs to be a bargain (maybe around the £50-60 mark)
2: Cheap compatable ink which gets a good ammount of print outs per cartridge.
3: Fairly decent quality print outs.

Any help will be muchly appreciated, thanks.

purply

Hi
I have an epson 42 printer which i bought cheaply-definatley in your price range.
I only need to print out text for the most part and the ink cartridges you can buy quite cheaply (the compatible ones are available quite easily-i bought a compatible black ink cartridge from wilkinsons for less than £4! Bargain and Ive had no problems with the quality)
The printouts are fine. I have used my printer to send out CV's and that sort of thing and i thought the quality was fine.

Mr_Vincent

Wow!!
Ink cartridge for less than £4.00.
Gee wizz, your average ink cartridge will knock you back an average £20.00.

Still, can't beat your all-in-one printers these days that let you have your own personal photocopier at home.

Mine is a Lexmark P6250.
Standalone photocopier.
Prints out pages in a couple of seconds.
Pricey cartridges.

Worth a mention.

Yep, printers definitely are down in price.
Pop into your local pc world or look up Argos for samples. You may be surprised.

Nile

Hello prozak

I'll move your thread over to the 'Techie Stuff' board, for the techie experts to help you.;)

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maxamos

I'd recommend something like the Canon IP4200, it's slightly above you're budget
(Ebuyer are doing it at £61.46 + P&P) but it's a great little printer.

It does good quality photos, prints directly onto CDs and DVDs and also does double sided printing plus North Devon Computers do very cheap sets of compatable cartridges (I own the older IP4000 and a full set of five cartridges is about £5)

HTH

Max

JimArnold

Cartridges for printers vary form £2 to £30
Some manufacturers eg Lexmark, HP use systems where the whole print head is replaced each time others eg Epson just replace the ink resevoir.
Guess which ones cost most!

Not saying which is best coz if the head on an espon blocks or goes duff its replace a printer time

isgman

Try "inkexpress.co.uk" they sell very good quality ink at low prices. and they will "ship" to your home / office worth a look, I use them all the time and can get the ink for my printer (R200) for £10 for all 6 inks...

*!*HIBS*!*

prozak wrote:

Hey everybody I was wondering if anybody could help me out with finding a new printer, I have 3 requirements really,
1: The printer needs to be a bargain (maybe around the £50-60 mark)
2: Cheap compatable ink which gets a good ammount of print outs per cartridge.
3: Fairly decent quality print outs.

Any help will be muchly appreciated, thanks.

See my post here:http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=200254
I can help you with 2/3 requirements these being no.1 and no.3. :cool:

HTH

Hibs :beer:

primeramikey

I would recommend the epson R series of printers, bloody good quality prints and cartridges can be got for 79p each.. this printer takes 6 seperate cartridges..

https://www.ukdvdr.com for ya cartridges and the are good quality in aswell..
have been using them for years without a problem

Skiduck

I know this is out of the posters budget, but anyone looking at this wanting a printer - i recommend for an all in one, a HP photosmart 2610. the most awesome printer I have owned for the price. It's a bargain for a printer/photo/copier/scanner/fax

letsbehonest

Each reply poster will have their opinions and favourites, here's mine. I have had two Epsons, and both suffered from the same nozzle clog problem, So I bought the cheapest Canon I could find at the time an i250, a superb little printer which uses a different system to Epson, cheap cartridges from Ebuyer.