My printer / scanner has stopped working and despite dismantling it and looking for broken bits, it is quite dead. So tomorrow I'll go and get
another. What do you recommend.
The one I had was an Epsom and I was quite pleased with it. Until it came to pay £40 for a box of ink cartridges. Kodak claim their printers are
cheaper on ink but are they any good?
What I need is a fast page-per-minute speed, the ability to print 6x4 photos onto glossy paper and a half decent scanner. Oh, and cheap ink! Any
suggestions?
Kodak every time, 2 kids at Uni and got one for each of them, absolute top product........
canon are always good, get one with seperate colour inks!
and don't get printer scanner fax all in one effort! no no no!
Top tip. The better quality the paper the less ink you will use. Cheap paper sucks up the ink.
mine doesnt do photos but i was staggered how fast it prints a page out when i first used it. Paper went through so fast i thought it hadnt printed anything. It was only £40 at sainsburys, and its an HP.
Another vote for a kodak.
Reliable and cheap to run.
I have nothing but praise for the Cannon Pixmia I have the P4850 stunning picture quality also prints printable CD's. I also have an Epsom with
scanner was doubting the quality of print when printing to Kodak paper the photo quality was acceptable but nothing to write home about. Then I tried
epsom paper in it an the quality improved immensly.
TBH I was buying Epsom inks then started buying from the bay of e an appear to be as good as the epsom but probably 20% of the price
Kodak
For photos
Epson + Epson paper
Kodak + Kodak paper
Etc
Lyson refillable external resoviour inks
Brilliant papers
But you need ICC profiles and the knowledge to instal them
Kodak all in ones, great quality and well priced consumables, check out your local currys.comet etc as a new range has just been rleased which means they usually have some manager special end of lines going cheap.
I bought a cheap Samsung laser printer for black and white and use photobox for printing photo's
Think this one has replaced it but I've not had a problem buying toner (which lasts ages compared to ink in my experience)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-ML-1660-Printer-capacity-sheets/dp/B003D1TK4A
If printing photo's at home 6 colour printers make a much better job of it, but cost on the ink!
I always choose the ink cartridge first then the printer. This way you avoid expensive ink when you come to refill.
For cheap cartridges try Hornsea Inkjets on the Web
just replaced our workhorse witha kodak hero 5.1, 90 odd quid from tesco, very pleased and the consumables are very reasonable and I'm more than happy with thing.
Juts bought a Canon Pixma MG6150 and can't praise it enough. It has a built in scanner so can be used for photo copying etc. the ink tanks are
all individually replaceable (and cheap third party ones are easily found) and the print head itself is easily replaceable. It also has Ethernet and
Wi-fi built in as well as USB, and a card reader to print direct from memory card. The paper also sits flat in a drawer under the printer, so
doesn't get curled up like a top-loader, and it does automatic duplex printing.
Print and scanning performance have so far been beyond reproach. I got it on special offer for about £70 at
Pixmania, though it seems to have gone up to £92 now.
I'd gladly have paid that for it though.
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Originally posted by DixieTheKid
Top tip. The better quality the paper the less ink you will use. Cheap paper sucks up the ink.
I have both Epson stylus & Canon ip 4600, both have been great workhorses, they have done a lot of work!! I would only buy something which you can buy non - original inks for, Epson/Canon price around £12 - £15 a cartridge, Ebay price for compatible inks (which I've had no probs with at all) sometimes less than £1ea!!! Possibly not so good if you're printing photos, but personally if i want pictures printed I woukld always go to a proper photo print place if quality is important.
Thanks everyone. I bought a Kodak in the end. The ink is half the price of the others. I've only printed in black so far but the quality is brilliant.