"Roger Cain" wrote in message
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What brands are people having success with these days, or has the
downward trend in prices meant that they are all going the same way?

I've been pleased with price/reliability/performance of the Canon Pixma
series.


aolMe too!/aol

Particularly impressive is the paper handling. We print manuals on ours -
double sided A4. The built-in duplex is slow but we run "Print odd pages"
then turn them over and run "Print even pages" - it's much quicker that way.

I was telling someone only yesterday that, in the 15 months we've had the
Pixma - during which time we've printed several hundred double sided 60 page
manuals on it - the paper pick-up has not failed once.

That's probably cursed it now but that level of reliability is great. If you
can't rely on the paper pick-up, you have to watch every page get printed or
be prepared to ditch a whole load of manuals (we print three at a time)
because a page has been missed and the wrong even pages have been printed on
the back of the odd pages.

And, whilst on the subject, I have no association with them other than as
customer but I can heartily recommend ink.co.uk

http://tinyurl.com/56qgpf

Ink cartridges at 0.37p instead of £10 makes an enormous difference to the
running costs though we use their more expensive (£1.47!) cartridges that
dry that bit quicker which is important for us.

When we look at new printers, we always draw up a short list and then
research the prices of compatible cartridges. All other things being equal,
the cartridge price is the decider - probably saving a thousand pounds a
year in running costs.


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