Cheapest good colour printer

divadee

Just started to print something on my printer and it blow up with springs flying everywhere something got jammed inside (doh!!)

Can anyone recommend the cheapest colour printer that is good around at the moment?

southeastshopper

Cheap printer is all very well, but most printers have "chipped" ink carts that are very expensive.

The Canon printers seem to be free of this scurge. I have a Canon i455 which is pretty good, even on photos and only costs about £50. You can buy "Inkrite" compat carts on https://www.ebuyer.com for only a quid each for this printer, so it costs very little to run. Also, you can get an A-B USB cable for less than a quid, so don't pay £10 "PC World" price for just the cable if one doesn't come with your printer, whatever you end up getting.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, I'd avoid the Lexmark range. The carts for these often cost more than the printer itself!

divadee

thanks for the reply have been looking at a canon one this evening in currys. as have seen the price of the cartridges and couldnt believe they were so cheap. the model was an CANON iP1500 anyone have any info if this is a good one or not?

divadee

also what sort of cable will i need? will the one from my old printer be ok as thats a usb cable.

divadee

well i have bought the ip1500 from currys this morning. they had a web exclusive offer for £40.80 but in store it was £49.99 which i knew. but haggled and they gave it to me for the web exclusive price.

i could of got it for £39 from pixmania but p&p charges would of made it more expensive and i needed a printer asap couldnt wait for delivery.

very easy to set up, cartridges cheaop what more could you ask for :j

southeastshopper

One thing you could ask for is some decent printer paper!

http://websites.uk-plc.net/UK_Inkjet_Cartridges_PLUS/products/EXTRA_SPECIAL_OFFER.htm

20 sheets of glossy A4 for £1.99 delivered - also same price for 100 sheets matt A4 too. Bargain!

divadee

southeastshopper wrote:

One thing you could ask for is some decent printer paper!

http://websites.uk-plc.net/UK_Inkjet_Cartridges_PLUS/products/EXTRA_SPECIAL_OFFER.htm

20 sheets of glossy A4 for £1.99 delivered - also same price for 100 sheets matt A4 too. Bargain!

i got 10 sheets with the printer but thansk for that link might buy some paper from there

furiousfoggy

If you want decent photo results, its usually best to go with the paper made by the same company that makes your printer. I know it costs more, but the results are very noticable.

The reason for this is because different companies used different methods to apply the ink to the paper, ie HP paper has 7 layers, designed to soak the ink into it etc.

When I was demoing for HP, I tired out loads of different kinds of paper, and the HP paper was by far the best for HP printers. It might not be so niticable with other companies thought, so experiment and see.