[OT]Multi-function printer

Following on from the recommendation(s) for a shredder, I now need a colour printer/copier. (I am retiring and having to give back the stuff I was provided with in order to allow me to work at home).

I presently have an OfficeJet 4620 which is an evil, slow, unreliable, expensive to run, noisy, festering heap of shit.

IME, all inkjets (this is the third different one from different manufacturers I have had) suck syphilitic donkey c*ck.

Are there any that don't?

Reply to
Huge
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Canons all-in-ones have always been pretty reliable in my experience - scanner isn't quite as good as my dedicated HP one. It makes sense to get one for which cheap reputable third party inks are available.

I have standardised on Canon inkjets taking 525 & 526 cartridges. YMMV

Although I do have a laser printer for most of my work. It depends really on how much space you are prepared to devote to hardware.

Reply to
Martin Brown

The main problem with inkjet printers is that they waste a lot of ink priming their jets each time they are used. So if you only use them occasionally, they use a lot of ink pro-rata compared with printing a big batch in one go.

Laser printers don't seem to suffer from this problem. Have you considered an all-in-one based on a colour laser printer - particularly if you don't want to print a lot of glossy photographs?

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Roger Mills

On paper colour lasers work out cost effective only if you are prepared to invest a lot of cash in the first place. My last HP would have cost me £2

10 to replace the toner cartridges when they all ran out almost at the same time. For the occasional use I was making of it that was a lot of cash to be sitting on the desk doing nothing most of the time. Junked the HP and in vested in a Canon Pixmia been very happy with both scanning and printing re sults.

Richard

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Tricky Dicky

My Canon MP Series 3-in-1 (printer/copier/scanner) seems to do everything i require very well.

Ink cartridges cost around £15 for black £20 for colour.

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Reply to
Ash Burton

Need not be that much if you don't mind such an ugly brute.

Critical to choose one for which decent cheap third party toners are available. I could refill my dead Dell toner cartridges but at present I can buy new clones cheaper than the refill toner.

Canon Pixma taking 525/526 cartridges would be my suggestion too.

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Martin Brown

Following on from the recommendation(s) for a shredder, I now need a

I have yet to see any syphilitic donkeys waiting their turn around my 6 year old Epson BX300F. Its not fast, but is quiet and runs happily on £4 compatible cartridges.

Mike

Reply to
Muddymike

Personally I would not touch an inkjet again unless I was expecting to be printing colour very regularly.

For my needs (and YMMV) I have a basic non-feeding flatbed scanner (Canon LIDE 200), a Lexmark CS1400 DN (full duplex colour laser), and for the donkey work a "reconditioned", i.e. ex-office, laserjet 2300 DN. I also have an ancient reconditioned Laserjet 8000 for printing A3 drawings. (I need the 2300 because the duplex is flakey on the 8000). I print about a ream a month on the 2300, only on average a page a day of colour, and that irregularly.

I find the colour laser very adequate for printing family (not exhibition) A4 photos, especially if you laminate them.

Reply to
newshound

But with bank interest rates being what they are, it doesn't cost much to have your money invested in toner. My toner cartrides are about £200 each!

Reply to
charles

I am very happy with my HP LJ1022. It was an unwanted item someone gave to me, and when the toner ran out I bought a bottle of generic magnetic toner powder for the princely sum of 7.80USD and found a tutorial on Youtube. Still fine two years later, although admittedly it doesn't get heavily used.

I'm quite looking forward to doing it again.

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Graham.

Is that a bit like being a paper millionaire(?)

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Graham.

Don't care about scanner. I have an excellent Epson one for that.

That's a good idea, given the cost of the inks (which up until now, I haven't had to pay for, just flinch at their cost.)

I have a B&W laser, but my wife is insisting that she needs a colour copier. Space isn't that much of an issue.

Reply to
Huge

This is my feeling, too. Sadly, I have completely failed to convince my wife.

Reply to
Huge

I have an MP190 which IIRC takes these cartridges. The one disadvantage is that when one colour runs out, the whole colour cartridge mist be replaced. Cannon do make machines which take separate ink tanks for each colour.

Malcolm

Reply to
Malcolm Race

525/526 are separate CMYK cartridges. Avoid any with CMY altogether.
Reply to
Martin Brown

i've rewcently bought an HP470 inkjet printer/scanner. It was got as a portable copier - a job it does excellently. It does use 3 separate colour cartridges.

Reply to
charles

In message , Muddymike writes

Me neither although I use Epson cartridges. The trouble with being a grandparent is the number of photos you are expected to file and print. XP-412

No question that Epson make their money from the ink. I find it affordable for reliability.

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Tim Lamb

I have used an HP LaserJet 4M+ for many years. Very rarely gives trouble and is easy to fix. And it cost me nothing! That sorts out the higher volume monochrome printing.

For colour, I used to have a rebadged Lexmark Optra 45. Fine, but the catridges dried up and I use it relatively rarely. I bought a Samsung CLP colour laser for the cost of 3 lots of ink cartridges. Toners are about

50 quid each, and there are four; but I don't use it heavily.

I have a Samsung all-in-one mono that I use as a copier, although I could dump that. However the flatbed scanner is occasionally useful.

The main scanner is a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500. Lovely bit of kit (there are higher end versions too). Scans duplex at 25ppm and has excellent software. And I can use it with the printer as a colour copier.

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Bob Eager

Yup, the dell printer I have is pretty cheap toner wise (none of this silly combined drum and toner stuff)

They seem to sell as separate cartridges, so I think not.

I've got a Canon Pixma MG7150, doesn't take those cartridges, but uses the 550/551 ones. (it uses 6 cartridges - it also has a grey one). Third party ones easily available at reasonable prices.

I got it at a good deal and wanted to use it for printing photos mostly. Otherwise I'd have gone for a cheaper one.

They have two black cartridges, AIUI one of which is used for printing black text/monochrome documents

The printer/scanning bit has all worked fine.

Reply to
Chris French

Our two Canon printers use 550/551 which are similar. Unbranded cartridges are cheap but I've switched to ARC (Automatic Reset Chip) cartridges. These can be refilled with bottled ink, which works out even cheaper. Once empty, the chip reports "full" whenever they are removed then reinserted.

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Reentrant

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