Casual use printer

MrsBSaver

Can anyone recommend a good reliable black and white printer with affordable cartridges and costs less than £50

Frozen_up_north

In a word, no, not less than £50 anyway. I have a Samsung laser printer that I have had for several years, it is just a basic mono (black/white) printer that doesn't suffer from the ink drying up problems of an inkjet printer. I use 3rd party toner cartridges.

Argos list a Brother HL-1112 at £64, toner cartridges from eBay suppliers are incredibly cheap - less than £10 for two that each cover 1000 pages of A4 at 5% print.

subjecttocontract

I'm also a casual user and came to the conclusion that having my own printer wasn't cost effective. I use my local library at 20p a copy and that works out cheaper & less time consuming for me.

vacheron

I'd be looking for a small second hand laser printer which still has driver support for newer operating systems. 

If you can find one which still has a reasonably full toner, that could last you for years with casual use only.

MyRealNameToo

MrsBSaver said:

Can anyone recommend a good reliable black and white printer with affordable cartridges and costs less than £50

Spend more than £50 to get a laser printer the toner won't dry up, no having to run cleaning programmes that use up ink etc and at a maximum the cost of printing is 1/3 that of inkjet and can be 1/10 if you stick to originals 

DrSyn

For casual use, have you considered using the printer in your local library instead of buying one?

QrizB

MrsBSaver said:

Can anyone recommend a good reliable black and white printer with affordable cartridges and costs less than £50

I ws going to post much the same as Frozen_up_north:

Frozen_up_north said:

In a word, no

OP, how many pages a year are you expecting to print?

sausage_time

I ditched desk jet type printers - forever clogging up.  I have used a basic laser with 3rd party cartridges.  Printer (Samsung M2835DW) was purchased in 2014, it has printed 6851 pages total.  

JSmithy45AD

MrsBSaver said:

Can anyone recommend a good reliable black and white printer with affordable cartridges and costs less than £50

Can you define what your "casual use" means in terms of pages or how often used in a week/month/year? For very casual use, i'd definitely look at the library or supermarket as an option.

Newcad

Don't forget to keep an eye on local charity shops, I picked up a Cannon Pixima scanner/printer for £5 from the local AgeUK shop.

I really only wanted it for the scanner, because my 25 year old B&W HP inkjet printer, which only gets used two or three times a year, still has half left of an ink cartridge that was put in over 15 years ago and is still going strong. It has never dryed or clogged.
(Not sure which way I will go when it finally runs out - but I do have a spare full cartridge for it so It may be going for a good while yet).

poseidon1

subjecttocontract said:

I'm also a casual user and came to the conclusion that having my own printer wasn't cost effective. I use my local library at 20p a copy and that works out cheaper & less time consuming for me.

Same here.