3 in 1 Printer

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Can anyone advise me, I have a canon printer TS5050 just gone on line to order ink £40+ sorry but I did not come up the river on a Banana boat, Can I be sure that cartridges that say they are compatible with the printer, will actually work. I got stung that way once before with a different printer.

Is there a decent printer on the market which uses economically priced inks? I do not do a lot of printing, most of it is black, but occasionally I print photographs.

Ant555

If you are asking - "Do third part inks work in Canon printers" then the answer is yes.
There are some well-established ink companies that will offer a guarantee.

There are loads of companies but I have used 'Prink' in the past and here is a link to their page for your printer
https://www.prink.co.uk/canon-pixma-ts5050-ink-cartridges.php

Question 2 is "Is there a decent printer on the market which uses economically priced inks?"
Do you mean economically priced branded inks?

telemarks

Big fan of Cannon printers, and non branded inks here.

I buy packs of 5 cartridges cheap off eBay (around 60p each for mine), they work fine. I've found the print heads clean themselves more, and eventually the lower quality ink means the print heads gum up entirely. However printing about 100 oages/month, the first 3in1 lasted 7 years, the last one 5 years+. So I don't see a problem.


Using branded inks we would have spent many, many hundreds on Printing over 5 years.

Using cheap unbranded inks, and treating the printer as disposable !!!8230; I've spent just over a hundred in total (including the cost of the printer).

JP1978

There is a range of printers by Epson that use large vials for ink - Eco-Tank range.

The usual modus operandi of inkjets is to sell printer low £ and ink at high £..... the Eco-Tanks are the other way round.

PS, did you not realise why you can buy a printer for £20 but the replacement ink for it costs £30?

Cornucopia

This question comes up quite a lot. The answers haven't really changed that much, though there will always be people newly realising that their cheap printer takes expensive cartridges.

As others have mentioned, there are usually ways of using third-party ink cartridges, and there are also cheaper on-line sellers of official ink cartridges.

There are also different types of printer, which use Ink tanks or cheap laser printers, for example (though these can be expensive if you need colour printing).

There is also HP Instant Ink - where the provision of ink has been changed from a periodic purchase to a monthly subscription.

(I have an HP6960 small office 3-in-1 machine, and Instant Ink. I'd definitely recommend this combination to anyone using their printer a lot (>100 prints per month), or who regularly needs to scan or copy lots of pages).

RumRat

HP now do a free 'Instant Ink' deal....If you only use 15 pages a month....