Nick wrote:

Any recommendations for current HPs ? Budget around £75 for a colour
inkjet
only ( don't need / want scanner / copier built in, as have those devices
- really only for occasional photos and it would be good if it ran on
non-original ink but not really bothered as used so little.

I'm in a similar position with blocked jets on a Stylus 760. I got it going
again after using up a whole cleaning cartridge but it only lasted a few
weeks befor it blocked up again. To be fair I should say that this is the
first serious blockage in 8 years and I've seldom needed to clean the jets
previously.

I'm still trying to decide between another inkjet or a laser. If I go for an
inkjet I could be tempted by the HP K5400N, at £75 (from Misco) for the
network version. HP claim low running costs for this (2450 pages per
cartridge for black and 1700 for colour using ISO/IEC 24712 colour test
pages) http://h10060.www1.hp.com/pageyield/uk/en/OJPK5400n/index.html.
How that comes out in real life is another matter but the relative cost per
page is certainly much better than what they claim for their other inkjets.
In fact the page yields are comparable to those of the cheaper lasers where
the cartridges would cost about twice as much.

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Mike Clarke