need a new printer

madlyn

i need a new printer, dont want any of this fancy stuff. just want it to print
spend £25 tops and be able to get cheap cartridges. either new or compatable
any ideas?

gremlin666_2

Id try Ebay seems like it would be your best bet.

davetrousers

gremlin666 wrote: »

Id try Ebay seems like it would be your best bet.

I wouldn't! Remember when Dell was selling a basic printer for £10 there were lots of these appearing on ebay for considerably more.

The answer is shop around! By all means include ebay in this process.

Canon printers can have quite cheap cartridges as they are just reservoirs of ink and do not have the new print heads on them like HP ones do.

cowbutt

Inkjets are extremely expensive to run; a laser printer may cost a bit more, but the cartridges last ages. I bought a Samsung ML-1250 for £99 from dabs.com in 2002 which came with two half-full 1000 sheet cartridges. It's only on the second of those cartridges some five-and-a-half years later, having printed probably 3000-4000 pages.

Millionaire

cowbutt wrote: »

Inkjets are extremely expensive to run; a laser printer may cost a bit more, but the cartridges last ages. I bought a Samsung ML-1250 for £99 from dabs.com in 2002 which came with two half-full 1000 sheet cartridges. It's only on the second of those cartridges some five-and-a-half years later, having printed probably 3000-4000 pages.

Depends if OP only ever wants to print in black and white. Colour Laser printers are quite expensive.

Shawz

here are a few suggestions

http://www.speedie.co.uk/acatalog/Laser_Printer.html

http://www.mcscom.co.uk/section.php?xSec=6

http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/products2.asp?CategoryID=99&SubCategoryID=199

any good

madnlooney

when looking around its check out the cartridge prices too. you dont wanna get a nice cheap printer and pay through the nose for ink

Quasar

madnlooney wrote: »

when looking around its check out the cartridge prices too. you dont wanna get a nice cheap printer and pay through the nose for ink

Hear hear. I did buy a Lexmark which seemed very reasonably priced, then had to pay £24 per cartridge. When it went belly up I bought an HP printer and the local cartridge re-fill place can do them cheaply. They were not so keen on Lexmark re-filling although their excuses were vague.

don_ky01

I bought a refurbish printer from Ebson, model stylus C48 cost about £30 but the best bit is the ink cartages are SO cheap. I bought 10 black and 5 colour for £20 delivered from nd ink.

Result :T

[Deleted User]

I would recommend Epson everytime, but £25 is pushing it.

What about an Epson All-in-one £39 on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000O3ABIE?ie=UTF8&tag=jcwebdesigns&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000O3ABIE Other people are selling it for alot more.

The cartridge are also cheap visit http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000QGGA20?ie=UTF8&tag=jcwebdesigns&linkCode=as2&camp=1634&creative=6738&creativeASIN=B000QGGA20


Thanks

cowbutt

Millionaire wrote: »

Depends if OP only ever wants to print in black and white. Colour Laser printers are quite expensive.

Best to get colour printing done by a photo printing service or shop. Cheaper per print, and better quality too.