The Great ‘The Most Economical Printers’ Hunt
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mascherano wrote: »Those Samsung ML laser printers that were discussed on here a while back- £40 to buy, £5 to re-fill. Excellent print quality, excellent economy
I've been running one of these for a while. And if monochrome printing is all you want, they're unbeatable. £45 for the Samsung printer (there are other brands but they all look suspiciously similar - HP, Brother, etc). And when it ran out of toner, a £7 bottle of toner from eBay is enough for 3 refills. I'm onto my 2nd refill and printing is still fine - quite a bit cheaper than £40 for a new cartridge (though to be fair a new cartridge holds twice as much toner as the one that comes with the printer).
I've been warned the cartridges don't refill indefinitely (apparently the built-in drum deteriorates), but when that happens I'll just buy another printer.
A neighbour who runs a small business recently took my advice and bought a similar model, and she's knocked out by the running costs compared to the cheap HP printer she consigned to a charity shop after only 3 months!0 -
I have an Epson Photo R300 and buy the compatible cartridges (six different colours including black) at £3.98 for a pack of the six from: https://www.diskdepot.co.uk
To make the most of the delivery charge, I always order five or six packs at a time.
The cartridges I have are badged Sumvision, of MP3 and pen drive fame.
They appear to be similar to the compatible cartridges sold under other names on e-Bay etc at higher prices.0 -
Help needed please! I have seen a printer here http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&product_id=22650&menu=&submenu=&session=89ce348fb029ba1d20e3847c4aacd221
Its a Lexmark Z735, very cheap with free delivery. Can anyone tell me if it would be cheap to run (as in new cartridges), dont want to get cheap printer if the cartridges are expensive.
Thanks for your help (hope the link works as I haven't done this before)0 -
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The !!!!!!! didn't work....:-(
http://www.diskdepot.co.uk/acatalog/epson-compatible-ink-rx200-set-of-six-projet.htm0 -
I bought myself a laser printer and haven't looked back. Most of the stuff I print is either black and white anyway, or the lack of colour doesn't matter. Anything I do need in colour I can print on the colour laser printers at work anywayIf at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.0
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My experience:
My last inkjet - Canon IP1600, cost maybe £35. Owned 18 months, waste of money. Re-filled at cartridge world, twice over that time, £17 for both.
Not CW's fault, Ink ran out SO FAST, totally pointless and expensive printer considering I hardly ever used the thing, and the majority of pages were b&w!- Pros of inkjets - Good colour matching for photos, cheap refills.
- Cons of inkjets - Slow, noisy, poor text quality unless you spend a bit. Poor page efficiency, manufacturers tricks (such as chips that stop the printer working unless its reset!), not good for occasional use.
Official samsung replacements are 2000 pages, and you can buy the identical ML1610 toner for less than the ML2010 toner. This costs £35 I think.
Mono Laser- Pros - crazy-fast (especially for 1+ prints), crisp text, excellent page efficiency, good for "official" documents like CVs, good occasional use AND for bulk prints, long (Quoted) lifetime,
- Cons - not colour, refills are a bit more than inkjets
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I too have the Canon SmartBase MP700 printer - excellent.
I get replacement inks from:
http://www.nd-ink.co.uk/
Each cartridge (black/colour) only £1 each!0 -
Help needed please! I have seen a printer here http://www.bigpockets.co.uk/product.php?lang=&product_id=22650&menu=&submenu=&session=89ce348fb029ba1d20e3847c4aacd221
Its a Lexmark Z735, very cheap with free delivery. Can anyone tell me if it would be cheap to run (as in new cartridges), dont want to get cheap printer if the cartridges are expensive.
Thanks for your help (hope the link works as I haven't done this before)
I've had several lexmarks over the years, and haven't been very impressed. I think they were one of the instigators of the whole "gilette razor" business model inkjet printer manufactures use these days, as such several other users have already mentioned that Lexmarks tend to be expensive over their lifetime.
You can refill inkjets cheaply but the print heads deteriorate over several refills and you are faced with spending 35+ on new cartridges or getting a new printer.
Take a look at some of the other posts, there are some links that show you the true costs of printers.0
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