I am looking for a colour printer for my wife.
Cartridges/Toner need to be generic and cheap.
I Am after for a Colour Printer with Generic Ink Cartridges/Toner
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Thanks a lot for the info. Can you send the link of the inks you are telling. From where you ordered? Means which specific number of ink? 5XXL cartridges.
I'm looking at getting one of these - What are your thoughts ?
Good printer ?Upgrading from a Canon MG 6250
Just need to find someone with stock.
@GC67: I'm very happy with it, especially for the price (I got it for $114 delivered). Cassette paper feed is great. I only use it a couple of times a week so not a heavy user.
I'm looking at getting one of these - What are your thoughts ?
Good printer ?Upgrading from a Canon MG 6250
Just need to find someone with stock.
I am looking for a color printer for my wife
What is your wife like? Sounds like a good swap. D
A ink supplier I have used in the past is Prime Inks4Less. Reasonable prices, good quality inks, and fast to post.
read in the voice of Borat
there are plenty of generic ink sellers on ebay
I always use these guys, never had a problem with the inks
https://www.ebay.com.au/str/yyudaprinterinktonercartridgeSpend limit, print quality required? features?
Check out inkstation.com.au for cheap color ink cartridges and then check out printers. This way you will know that the printer has cheap cartridges. I have a Canon TR8560 and have been using the generic C-681XXL cartridges for it since I used up the original cartridges.
You can buy printers with refillable ink tanks, so you don't have to use replacement cartridges. They cost a bit more but cheaper to run
Example Only: https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/epson-ecot…
Hmmm, are inks the same across all printers, just that the cartridges are in different for factors and obviously a cartridge designed for this printer wont fit in for a slot used for this print but the ink themselves will work on any printer? So I could buy those ink refills but instead of using it for the epson printer is meant for, I can just drill a hole in my cannon one, pour the ink in, tape it back up and it's back to full again? And then just get the ink refills for the next time whenever the cartridges go dry even if you dont use your printer for a couple of years?
Don't see why not but perhaps there are cheaper inks avail?
Personally, I have never had much luck are refilling my own HP ones back in the day. I always ended up with a mess and refilled cartridges failed to print properly if at all. Perhaps I was just useless at doing them but did take care and followed instructions.
Lucky for me I stumpled upon one of these Epsons for free with full tanks and 3 unopened Inks (chucked out during household pickups). Love it.
Lucky for me I stumpled upon one of these Epsons for free with full tanks and 3 unopened Inks (chucked out during household pickups). Love it.
Damn, someone chucking away a brand new $500 printer with full tanks and 3 unopened ink packages?!?! Which suburb? I would like to visit this suburb myself and see if I can pick anything off their curbs for free that I can use…..
Don't see why not but perhaps there are cheaper inks avail?
Well genuine cannon cartridges are like $23 a pop each(one of which is $28), and these are $17 a pop from epson:
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/epson-522-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/epson-522-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/epson-522-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/epson-522-…Compared to buying my cartridges:
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-cli-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-cli-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-cli-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-cli-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-cli-…
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/canon-pgi-…Oh I noticed they don't have grey….how am I gonna refill my grey cartridge??
I suppose I could stick with non genuine compatible cartridges which are like $10 or so….but I feel better if I just simply drilled a hole and refilled the cartridge or rehydrating (I don't think water will do since that's too heavy…) if it dries out and you never printed on it at once after the replacement cartridge, instead of chucking the whole thing away and replacing it with a new one.
@Zachary: Grey is not a normal colour. You sure it has Grey?
ALSO. How much ink is in your small one. Shows as estimated yield of 462 pages.
The bottles of ink on my one estimated yield of 7500 pages :-)@Borg: Ok, so my ink cartridges ran/dried out and I needed to print something, so i paid about $15 for one bottle of cyan to test out. I come home, pop the cap off the epson bottle, drilled a hole in my cannon cartridge and squeezed the ink inside. Within seconds, the sponge on the cartridge soaked up all the ink and then dribbled out the hole where ink is suppose to stay stagnent and not drip at all until used by the printer. It felt like I was refilling it back up with water to re-vitalise the dried up ink, but instead of undrying up the ink, its fresh new epson ink! I think the ink is too heavy so it drips out which is no good for refilling.
@Zachary: Not sure why you are asking me. The printer I noted doesn't use cartridges. It has a refillable tank for each colour which one fills……no drilling required.
Tip: If refilling a original cartridge, "Google it" as it's not as simple as it seems and never had much luck myself back in the day. Make sure you block the hole you drilled and you are right, not all inks are of the same quality.
Not sure why you are asking me.
Just updating you since you agreed that inks are all the same and could be used interchangeably with any inkjet as long as the cartridges fit and I happen to be need my printer printing something but was all dried up in all ink cartridges so did the team a favour and experimented with this theory of ours….
Maybe I was holding it wrong or gripping it too hard which is why the ink dripped out from the sponge? i have one of those 10ml syringes but the needle bit is missing so would need a replacement needle or whole syringe….
I'll report back with a new needle or syringe….
The printer I noted doesn't use cartridges. It has a refillable tank for each colour which one fills……no drilling required.
Yes but mine is not an Epson and I was using an Epson refiller bottle in a non looking refilliable cannon ink cartridge(which technically can be refilled if you poke a hole and refill the ink inside the tanks and sponge…), get me?
@Borg: WOops forgot to report back! - found a way to stop the leaking - plug that drill hole up! Filled it all the way to the top and plugged the hole with a stopper that came with an old ink refill kit I had (I guess that's probably what it was for….) and then taped over that as extra insurance in case it fell out or something and then chucked it back into the printer and lol it still prints the blue from the cyan!
Oh yeah Cannon also has an equivalent refillable tank inkjet printer: https://www.canon.com.au/printers/pixma-g3620-megatank which I found out after browsing the cannon cartridges at officeworks to see if they had any Cannon branded ones!
Now for someone to test the ink quality of the brands….probably doesn't matter as it'd jsut be like using those "compatible" ink cartridges you get at cartridge world on the cheap….
For laser try Fuji they are great for huge volumes in domestic situations.
Anyone got an Epson Expression Home XP-3105 Multifunction Printer? Looks like a good budget printer to me. Cheap ish ink.
gents, off-topic did anyone here tried generic toner in brother printers and had any issues? I have been reading issues about toner spills etc.
Haven't tried colour but my B&W generic toner cartridges are fine.
No toner spills.
Only issue I had is for the first couple of pages of a new toner cartridge it can smudge/spotty, but after a few pages it's good.
Check out https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/547199
Why are you replying after 4 months ?
Because they get notified of my reply and may still need to buy some.
Plus someone may benefit from my post. For the same reason you're reading a 4 month old post.
Canon ts6360
About $120 purchase price.
Set of 5 XXL generics for about $60.
Borderless photo printing, double sided, wireless printing etc.
My first upgrade from the $40 printers you get at big w and I've been impressed.