Can anyone suggest a cheap printer to use with my computer please. It is for home use and can be black and white print only, I guess I am concerned that the ink cartridges do not cost a fortune to replace.
Economical Printer for Home Use
caro on 12/11/2012 - 20:33
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This is a great printer at a great price :
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Dell-1133-Multifunction-Monochrom…
thank you I will have a look at it
avoid dell. AFAIK the printer cartridges can't be refilled. dell printers are rebadged lexmark.
I bought a HP B110a (colour printer, scan, copy). it is very easy to hack the printer so that you can use refilled cartridges in it. remove a couple of screws and take off a side panel and then remove the battery.
I bought bottles of ink off ebay for a couple of $. takes seconds to re-fill.
but also look at monochrome laser printer as suggested below.
The Samsung HL-1865 is great.
Do you mean the ML
Thank you I will have a look at it on the website
Officeworks sell some great monochrome laser printers dirt cheap. Just confirm the cost of the replacement toners before buying. I have a Brother laser printer that does duplex printing. We buy the non Brother generic toners for half the price as replacement toners. You can buy these online very cheap.
+1 for the brother.
HL2040 or similar
If you don't need colour, I'd get a laser printer - and go to BigW/Harvey Norman/a neighbour etc for colour. I've owned two Epsons and a Canon. Unless you buy their own brand of cartridges (which are expensive compared to refills), they both clog after a while. So when you print there's banding or missing colours.
There's only two ways I know of to prevent it:
Using their own brand expensive cartridges (and replacing them BEFORE they run out).
Printing some of each colour regularly (every day?).
My current Epson prints on CD/DVDs. But I have to run at least two cleaning cycles before I print to unclog the jets. Sometimes you just can't unclog all the jets without flushing all your ink down the drain. So I often find I resort to printing just black text.
You don't have this same problem with lasers. And you can buy generic toner cartridges.
Have to disagree with the clogging using compatible cartridges although it is possible if you use really poor quality cartridges but epson are by far the worst for print head clogging as they use Electronic Piezo based prints heads which are more prone to clogging even with genuine inks, the more often it is used the less chance of print head clogging
If B&W is your only requirement then (as mentioned above) a Brother Laser is your best bet, if you have a requirement for colour as well then anyone of the brother inkjets are still the most cost defective. A single Black LC77 Ink Cartridge contains 30ml of ink where as the most of the Epson and Canon have around 8-15ml
I am a rep for 5dollarinkcartridges.com.au and we often run specials here on ozbargain
Well, I don't use my printer even every week. So it's common for them to clog.
The first epson I had clogged even on the original cartridges. Had it "repaired" under warranty - which consisted of the guy installing an entire set of new cartridges which he flushed through the printer a few dozen times to unclog it. Then he charged me for them. And as soon as I got it home it was already clogged again AND the cartridges were nagging me to replaced because they were nearly empty.
Then I used quality refills for the canon. But still had to continually remove the printhead and soak it in a cleaning solution to unclog.
The epson I have now takes a few clean cycles but eventually revives. Print quality is never great though. Can only rarely print perfect photos, when the jets decide to unclog. It's a lottery as to when that happens.
I guess my point was - reading between the lines - the OP sounds like he uses colour even less than I do. Therefore a laser might be a better choice. It's certainly cheaper per page. Some are lucky. But I've read numerous threads over the years about clogged inkjets. It's more common than not.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/72917