Whats The Best Printer To Buy?

daviex1

hi i have got a epson sx405 and i hate the fact that when printing even tho there is in left in the cartridges it still tell me i have run out and need to put in new ones,plus it does not reconise it when u refill the cartridges yours self so i am getting rid of this printer even tho its not that old maybe a year or so.([EMAIL="jagx1@hotmail.co.uk"]jagx1@hotmail.co.uk[/EMAIL]) so i am selling it anyone interested lol

Rockman

I have a Dell Inspirion 5150 pc. Can anyone advise if I can only buy a Dell printer for this pc or can I buy any make of printer?

Thanks

Smithster

Personally I would stay clear from epson printers. Ive had two and both have required lenghty cleaning of the ink lines! I cant suggest what to buy (as I too need a new one) but I can certainly say i will not be anything with epson on it anytime soon!!

Enterprise_1701C

Rockman wrote: »

I have a Dell Inspirion 5150 pc. Can anyone advise if I can only buy a Dell printer for this pc or can I buy any make of printer?

Thanks

You can buy any make printer to go with an make computer (not sure about Apples though) - you just have to make sure it will work on your Operating System.

Titus_frogsbutt

Jane_Blackford wrote: »

Have you looked at laser? You can get lasers for ao reasonable price these days. OK, the toner is not that cheap, but it does not suffer from not being used for a while - we had an inkjet that we did not use for a month and we could not get it to print properly cos the cartridges had dried up near the head!

Completely agree. Inkjets "clean" their heads whenever you switch them on which uses up your ink even without printing and if you don't often use them the head will clog up. Lasers however have expensive major items in them such as imaging drums, toner cartridges, transfer belts but they last a lot longer than your liquid ink carts plus of course your prints come out dry. If looking at a laser printer ask yourself if you are prepared to pay almost twice it's inital cost to replace these items (or much less green, just buy a new one) when they are life expired.

tonynw

dvdhat wrote: »

My Epson Pixma D120 has two flshing amber lights indicating that it will no longer print due to having a saturated waste ink pad. It is only a year old and now requires to receive professional attention! The advice on the web is to throw it away as there doesn't weem to be a way of resetting the counter ourselves. This is something that Epson don't tell you about.

I am now left with unused cartridges and I am not sure what to buy as a replacement. Any ideas?

if you buy an epson model sx or dx they take the same cartridges as the d120

tonynw

tonynw

Rockman wrote: »

I have a Dell Inspirion 5150 pc. Can anyone advise if I can only buy a Dell printer for this pc or can I buy any make of printer?

Thanks

you can fit any printer to your pc the dell printers are made by lexmark so are expensive to run.

tonynw

Titus_frogsbutt

tonynw wrote: »

you can fit any printer to your pc the dell printers are made by lexmark so are expensive to run.

tonynw

Lexmark & HP printers have the printhead within the ink cartridge whereas the Epson an Canon do not. Therefore with the Lexy/HP your print quality should not degrade. Also Epson & Canon have "ink absorbers" (felt pads) which the machine WILL say after a period of time need to be replaced. You can find the method to reset this counter online but I'd not recommend it as the ink will eventually overflow from these pads.

tonynw

Titus_frogsbutt wrote: »

Lexmark & HP printers have the printhead within the ink cartridge whereas the Epson an Canon do not. Therefore with the Lexy/HP your print quality should not degrade. Also Epson & Canon have "ink absorbers" (felt pads) which the machine WILL say after a period of time need to be replaced. You can find the method to reset this counter online but I'd not recommend it as the ink will eventually overflow from these pads.

or you could fit a waste pipe that goes to a bottle then the pad never gets full of ink.

tonynw

barmonkey

dvdhat wrote: »

My Epson Pixma D120 has two flshing amber lights indicating that it will no longer print due to having a saturated waste ink pad. It is only a year old and now requires to receive professional attention! The advice on the web is to throw it away as there doesn't weem to be a way of resetting the counter ourselves. This is something that Epson don't tell you about.

I am now left with unused cartridges and I am not sure what to buy as a replacement. Any ideas?

you can use this software to reset the inkpad counter
http://www.ssclg.com/epsone.shtml