On 06/02/2013 17:43, Broadback wrote:
I know that to some extent this was discussed earlier, but I cannot
find it. I have a canon S900 printer which is on its last legs.
Generally I have been happy with its printing, though Canon's attitude
to customers problems is awful. Any way I am looking to replace it, I

I haven't found cheap BCI-6 photo inks I was happy with either which
makes them a bit expensive to fuel. Same with any inkjet. At least now
there are some clone inks for it that work for anything but high end
photo. Early ones were at best erratic and inclined to fail or be DOA.

OTOH the Dell 1320c colour laser is a doddle with cheap clone toner
cartridges almost as good as the OEM but at 1/4 the price.

would like a reasonable cost printer that is good for documents and fair
for photos. Hopefully a low cost ink system, the canon is rather
expensive. I do not require a photo copier, which most seem to have. All
suggestions welcomed

Two questions:

How much physical bulk can you live with?

What volume of printing a month does it need to handle?

Advice is the same find something that reviews at a print quality you
can live with (which is almost any of them part from obvious lemons
these days) and where the clone inks review at 4* or better on Amazon.
The hardware is a cheap loss leader they get you on the consumables.

There are often good deals on slightly past it but otherwise high
quality bulky printers at Morgan if you don't need it to work with Win8
and can live with the large office style footprint.

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Regards,
Martin Brown