Printer cost analysis

Mesopotania

Hi
You quote the HP Photosmart D7160 at £59. where did you find it at that price? I'm finding it more like £66
Many thanks

meester

Mesopotania wrote: »

Hi
You quote the HP Photosmart D7160 at £59. where did you find it at that price? I'm finding it more like £66
Many thanks

Direct from HP

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/uk/en/ho/WF05a/5043-5047-5287-5287-12564514-12564608.html £59

use discount code HPSPLDIS for 10% off that, plus free delivery = £53.10

meester

BexTech wrote: »

It's not worth printing your own photos, I just use Bonus Print with their Pix program to upload for Bonus Print to print them off professionally.

It's true that you'll never beat the 5p/print bulk price from the online printers, but then there is a convenience value in printing your own, no waiting, you can just print one photo out and give to friends, for the cost of 10p-20p, depending on the printer, compared to about £3 for a single print (including p+p) from one of the big sites.

Everyone should really have a printer at home, and it makes sense to get one with cheap ink.

vinu1

Hi i am new to this forum and i was just going through your reply, is it really 10 to 20p per copy because i love to take pictures and print them, could u please suggest the printer name.
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vinu

HP q6000a

HP q6000a

Froggitt

As a poster above said, its daft printing your own photos when you can get 100 professionally done for a fiver or so.

A cheap laser, maybe £50 or so including a toner cartridge, will print far more than an inkjet will.

Not many people know this, but inkjet ink, if you analysed the cost of the carts with the amount of ink in them, costs around £8,000 per litre.

lynseyb29

What a great post, but am slightly confused now!!!

i am looking for a wireless printer for general use and the occasional photo printing, which one would you suggest based on running costs and buying costs?

Steve_xx

lynseyb29 wrote: »

What a great post, but am slightly confused now!!!

i am looking for a wireless printer for general use and the occasional photo printing, which one would you suggest based on running costs and buying costs?

I have a Brother wireless DCP 340CW printer/scanner. I bought it on eBay for £50 (brand new). It has separate cartridges for the 4 colours. I bought one of those refill kits from Tesco a while back for £2.78 and I've just started using it as the original ink has just run low. No problems at all refilling the cartridges. I'm very happy.

Brother cartridges are relatively cheap anyway, compared with say Lexmark.

Always ensure that you buy a printer with separate colour cartridges rather than a combined single cartridge. If you buy a printer with a single cartridge and one of the colours runs low, then you have to replace the cartidge even though the ink levels on the other colours might be high!

Blackdog

Great research, many thanks.

I am currently using a Lexmark C734dn laser printer mainly because it came with 4k toners. It's a great printer but I am a bit scared of how much the replacement toners will cost!

Benson

Ok help me please!!! I'm looking for a new laser printer, colour or b&w I'm not fussed.
We print approx 100 pages a day - sometimes more! I work from home!!

Which hp laser would be best ( tend to stick
with hp as they're compatible with macs and I've always had them I suppose!)

I've seen so many I'm confused!!!

lynneinjapan

Thanks meester for a great post... but it's a shame it's 2 1/2 years old now, so all the printers on the market have changed! Any chance of an update?

We have a Canon MP210 nwhich has been very good but has suddenly started refusing to recognise the colour cartridge (I'm using compatibles but it was perfectly happy for quite a while and has only just started objecting, and only to the colour one). We have a small stockpile of PG40 and CL41 cartridges so it seems an awful waste to just buy a new printer, since none of the printers on the market nowadays seem to take these cartridges.