Colour printer

suzy_g

My daughter stated an art course. She needs a colour printer. Can anyone recommend a basic printer that has the cheapest refills, as I know from experience how expensive refills are ,thanks 

WaywardDriver

Consider an ink tank rather than cartridges.

interstellaflyer

Avoid any printer that takes just 2 cartridges as in one black and one tri-colour, tricolour cartridges are ok if you mostly print black and white but need the odd colour print but not the other way round, you don't use all the colours at the same rate so once one colour runs out the cartridge is useless.

fenlander_uk

Don't be afraid to try compatible cartridges - they cost a small percentage of the manufacturer's own brand and results are indistinguishable for the most part.

cattom

I got new printer about 6 weeks ago. its a canon pixma mg2550s. I do voluntary work for the diabetes trust, and I print letters and address labels on it for that no problem. it does colour as well. not sure how much the cartridges are, but when it needs some I'll probably get after market ones on ebay, or failing that I know a man who can refill the old cartridges.

getmore4less

Pretty sure someone recommended some Canon ones a while back.

If going to be used regularly less chance of the drying out issues.

I have stuck with brother as they have cheap compatibles and if left on self clean if left unused for too long.
They have been very robust lasting longer than any other inkjet I have tried. 
not sure what the current options are I went A3 a couple of years back on a silly cheap deal from JohnLewis

plenty of threads this is the one I was thinking of
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6256537/new-printer/p2

Cornucopia

HP Printer with instant ink?   Starts at 99p per month for 15 pages.

https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/

I see they do toner now.

interstellaflyer

cattom said:

I got new printer about 6 weeks ago. its a canon pixma mg2550s. I do voluntary work for the diabetes trust, and I print letters and address labels on it for that no problem. it does colour as well. not sure how much the cartridges are, but when it needs some I'll probably get after market ones on ebay, or failing that I know a man who can refill the old cartridges.

Not a printer I'd recommend for someone doing an art course, as I mentioned in my other post, tri-colour cartridges are useless for anything other than the occasional colour print, also that machine is a real poverty spec machine, no WiFi capability, no auto double sided printing and no information screen and they are really flimsy looking and feeling.

suzy_g

interstellaflyer said:

cattom said:

I got new printer about 6 weeks ago. its a canon pixma mg2550s. I do voluntary work for the diabetes trust, and I print letters and address labels on it for that no problem. it does colour as well. not sure how much the cartridges are, but when it needs some I'll probably get after market ones on ebay, or failing that I know a man who can refill the old cartridges.

Not a printer I'd recommend for someone doing an art course, as I mentioned in my other post, tri-colour cartridges are useless for anything other than the occasional colour print, also that machine is a real poverty spec machine, no WiFi capability, no auto double sided printing and no information screen and they are really flimsy looking and feeling.

Thank you I will take this info when looking for one 

Norman_Castle

Cornucopia said:

HP Printer with instant ink?   Starts at 99p per month for 15 pages.

https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/

I see they do toner now.

As they charge per page would that be more cost effective for printing images rather than text? Does she know how much printing she will be doing?