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« Reply #1 on: October 07, 2009, 08:32:04 PM » |
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Depends what size. We have an Epson one that cost me about £45 a few years back. Only gripe is the cartridges don't seem to last very long (maybe they keep drying up as I don't use it to print much).
Bought my Mum a Lexmark wireless printer last year for £90 from Costco. Does fax, copy, scan and print, so I'm sure they're cheaper without the fax. That works pretty well, cartridges seem fine as she prints out all our receipts, copy of the invoices etc for accounts. She's not asked for a new one for a while so it seems to run quite well with the ink.
I think if we went for a new one we'd get a Lexmark.
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« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2009, 08:49:43 PM » |
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I always think HP and lexmark cartridges are quite expensive. I tend to veer towards Canon and Epson. Might be wrong tho.
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« Reply #4 on: October 08, 2009, 07:47:29 AM » |
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I always think HP and lexmark cartridges are quite expensive. I tend to veer towards Canon and Epson. Might be wrong tho.
I think it depends on what you intend to print with it. My Epson's cartidges work out at around £20-25 for all 4 (3 colours plus black) but I really don't get much out of them and they all seem to run out at the same time so I'm always having to buy all of them when I come to replace them. Looking on Amazon, Lexmark can work out either the same or a little more (obviously depending on the printer type) but I think the cartridges are far better. My old HP all in one also lasted a lot longer on the cartridges, but those I found were a lot more expensive. |
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« Reply #5 on: October 08, 2009, 08:14:31 AM » |
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I go by the printer I've got just now (an Epson R360) which costs me around £16 to fill with all the cartridges - where as my HP Photosmart was £50 to fill.
Best £45 I ever spent was on a Samsung B/W laser printer - had the same cartridge now for almost four years and it's still printing perfectly.
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« Reply #6 on: October 08, 2009, 09:07:00 AM » |
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I picked up an old laser printer and 2 x 2.5k toners for free from another school, well worth it!
But failing that, I was looking recently, and the Kodak ink saving ones look good, other then that I still recommend HP to everyone.
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« Reply #7 on: October 08, 2009, 10:22:59 AM » |
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Inkjet wise I went through a range of Epsons as the ink kept drying and clogging up the jets. I then went for a couple of HP's which seem to last longer, but the print quality wasn't as good and the cartridges were more (I think because the jets were built in to the cartridges).
Laser printer wise I bought a big, expensive colour HP which was great, until the yellow ran out. Shouldn't have been a problem as I was only using it for B/W invoices, but it won't work if one of the cartridges is empty, which is a complete con. To replace the yellow will cost about £100, and as I've no guarantee that the printer will still work if it's replaced (I might then find the other three cartridges need replacing as well, another £300) it's currently sitting outside in the shed. In the end I bought a little HP B/W laser for about 40 quid which is still going strong.
Personally now I'll only buy the cheapest printer I can find, as my purchases over the past 15 years have resulted in lots of broken printers in boxes clogging up the garage, regardless of how cheap or expensive they were.
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« Reply #8 on: October 08, 2009, 10:36:52 AM » |
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The problem at the moment is electronic office supplies (EOS) products vary from week to week with the currency fluctuations. Ink is rising week on week and it's so hard trying to convince our customers that it's not us putting the toner prices up but the likes of HP etc. Our most expensive toner right now is a HP and that is £280!
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« Reply #10 on: October 09, 2009, 08:54:15 AM » |
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I spend about £900 a month on toners.
usual price per colour toner is £100 odd.
I think Ill now stick to a mono laser with a inkjet nearby just in case need colour.
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« Reply #11 on: October 09, 2009, 09:34:16 AM » |
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I think Ill now stick to a mono laser with a inkjet nearby just in case need colour. that's what we have. Just an old HP laserjet, but the toner lasts for ages as we don't print often. The epson is really used more for scanning and the occasional photocopying. probably why the ink dries up too quick! |
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« Reply #12 on: October 09, 2009, 10:56:57 AM » |
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I think Ill now stick to a mono laser with a inkjet nearby just in case need colour. that's what we have. Just an old HP laserjet, but the toner lasts for ages as we don't print often. The epson is really used more for scanning and the occasional photocopying. probably why the ink dries up too quick! An incredibly knowledgeable and helpful assistant in Comet once told me he had a utility set up on his PC that sent a line of text, to be printed by his Epson printer each time he started his PC to avoid the ink drying up. |
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« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2009, 09:43:02 AM » |
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An incredibly knowledgeable and helpful assistant in Comet
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« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2009, 10:48:50 AM » |
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An incredibly knowledgeable and helpful assistant in Comet
Now we know you're taking the piss No, he really was brilliant He was in his early 50's and seemed to know everything about all the stuff on sale - after looking at printers we asked him about washing machines and he was equally knowledgeable. This was a few years ago. I went to the same store a couple of months back and the 4 or 5 teenage assistants checking their mobiles and chatting amongst themselves completely ignored me (I was looking for a laptop), even though I was about 8 feet away from them, and trying to get their attention. Eventually I went and interrupted their conversation and dragged one away, who was completely crap and didn't have the first idea about the laptop specs. I bought some blank disks anyway, and the lout on the checkout didn't say thank you, in fact he looked like he was thinking about hitting me. Helpful bloke probably got sacked for being 'too old'. |
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« Reply #15 on: October 12, 2009, 02:00:21 PM » |
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An incredibly knowledgeable and helpful assistant in Comet
Now we know you're taking the piss No, he really was brilliant He was in his early 50's and seemed to know everything about all the stuff on sale - after looking at printers we asked him about washing machines and he was equally knowledgeable. This was a few years ago. I went to the same store a couple of months back and the 4 or 5 teenage assistants checking their mobiles and chatting amongst themselves completely ignored me (I was looking for a laptop), even though I was about 8 feet away from them, and trying to get their attention. Eventually I went and interrupted their conversation and dragged one away, who was completely crap and didn't have the first idea about the laptop specs. I bought some blank disks anyway, and the lout on the checkout didn't say thank you, in fact he looked like he was thinking about hitting me. Helpful bloke probably got sacked for being 'too old'. Difference is they dont do any commission for the staff anymore. Its all store sales targets, which they know they will never meet, so they dont give a poo... |
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« Reply #16 on: October 12, 2009, 03:48:59 PM » |
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Difference is they dont do any commission for the staff anymore. Its all store sales targets, which they know they will never meet, so they dont give a poo...
Ah right. No wonder the high street's having such a hard time competing against online stores if they don't bother to motivate the staff. |
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