Recommendation for economic home printer

jonbey

I have been using Epson printers for years, as I used to do a lot of photography. However, these days my printer is mostly used for printing homework, and other random docs. Ink is expensive.

I am looking for a printer, maybe a B&W one, that is cheapish and has really cheap ink, and reliable, and amazing too!

Any ideas?

castle96

Same for me. Mine is on the blink, the scan function has disappeared. So many in the shops. Bluetooth this, wifi that. I want B&W/cheap ink, like you
Any ideas folks ?

bob_a_builder

Probably need to look at a low cost laser then ...

Sold via the same model as the inkjets,
i.e. cheap, £40 ish, usually with a starter toner cartridge
In future you can choose to buy manufacturer consumables, or cheaper clones, or just buy another printer

Had a number of samsungs myself

LINK

jonbey

Thanks. That makes a lot of sense! 500 page starter ink - that will keep me going for a while.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-SL-M2026-Mono-Laser-Printer/dp/B00YU62K3K/ref=sr_1_6?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1483126617&sr=1-6&keywords=laser+printer

System

At the IT auctions I used to go to until recently, Northern Realisation Auctions (https://www.realnorth.co.uk) there are usually a few dozen HP P3005DN office mono laser printers that usually sell for around a tenner or less with many barely or never used and you can get third party toners for them that'll do over 13,000 sheets for around £50.

I bought one 2 years ago which had only ever been turned on to be configured for £10 - if you attend the auction you can hook the printer up to print out a status page if there's not one already with it which is how I know it had only printed out a few sheets in its lifetime. At a following auction I bought a high capacity third party toner cartridge for £5 because the non-genuine ones go for nothing at auctions. Because its a business grade one it'll just spew paper out all day long without any problems.

castle96

thanks. But Bolton is a long way from me
Suprised at how few black only/inkjet/all in ones, there are.

letsbehonest

I converted to a cheapo mono samsung laser printer in 2015 and still running on the supplied catridge. Fed up with inkjet ink prices.

DigForVictory

+1 for a cheap B&W Samsung if you must buy new (but refuse to pay for the bells & whistles, the price drops like a rock).
Also still running the cartridge it came with.

Used to mind office printers - the old HP Deskjets took spectacular workloads & only required mains & paper month in month out. The users were far more work...

Husband still sniffy (occasionally) that he can't print colour photos but he can, if he takes them to Asda like the rest of us.

If you can get to Which, (ask at a library?) their best buys are worth considering.

castle96

thanks. So please recommend a Mono Samsung Laser ALL IN one