Printer shortages?

Sea_Shell

Thanks, will keep researching.

We bought ours in Feb 2014, and by our Amazon order records have used 6 sets of colour inks and probably 12 blacks.

So I'm guessing that's pretty low use!!

We don't do photos or anything really, just the odd order confirmation/receipt or spreadsheet.

Laser printers use that powder ink don't they (like big office ones), does that not go off or clog like liquid ink?

getmore4less

1 color and 2 blacks a year 
a quick look at a compatible site
looks like the XL size are 450pages. upto 3 pages a day?

how regular is the printing?
do you need/want color?

I got may last one by keeping an eye on HUKD and the cashback offers, not a lot on there today.
https://www.hotukdeals.com/tag/printer

Sea_Shell

Hmm not sure we do 3 a day average, but I always order XL ink.

I probably do about 5 a week, average.  But clustered around month end.

Colour is a sort of need, as I do copy maps for walking and my spreadsheets have colour coded items too.

grumpycrab

cheap printer alert at currys (may have gone by now)
https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/canon-pixma-ts3150-all-in-one-wireless-inkjet-printer-3498467

letsbehonest

If you do the online search there are you tube vids on how to clean printer heads 

jonnygee2

I've done some maths for you, and there's a clear winner.

A HP printer with the instant ink subscription lets you print 50 pages per month for £1.99. If the printer lasts for another six years, and you buy something like a HP Deskjet 2630 for <£40, the total cost over six years will be just £178. Even if the printer needs replacing once in that time, the total is just over £200.

I looked  some equivalent inkjet printers - e.g  CANON PIXMA TS3150, buying the cartridges you need over six years, assuming you continue to use what you said above (and yes I took page numbers per cartidge into account) and the total for all of them was well over £400.

The cheapest ink printers with refillable bottles, or colour laser printers, that I could find both come in at over £300 because of the initial cost of buying the printer. 

So I'd reccomend the HP with instant ink subscription. Where is that rotating Martin Lewis emoji when you need it?

grumpycrab

Jumping in to this thread (without reading :-)  I recommend HP instant ink if you a. don't print lots b. like a printer that works.  BUT cannot see any cheap HP printers at the moment...

Sea_Shell

So if it's a subscription, at £1.99 per month for up to 50 pages, I assume you'd pay this every month, even if it takes 6 months to use 50 pages??

I currently buy my inks off Amazon, and pay about £6 a set.  They are the unbranded ones, but have always been fine.

RumRat

Cheap(ish) HP printer HERE

dogmaryxx

£34.99  

HP Deskjet 2622 Wireless Printer & 2 Months Instant Ink

//www.argos.co.uk/product/9157387