Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks.

Arthur

On 2008-01-28 15:32:31 +0000, Arthur 51 said:

Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks.

Arthur

I have an HP 3300 series one. Meets all of those requirements.

Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?


Don't.

Get a laser.

Unless you don;t mind forking out 60 quid fir something that will work
for a month, need new inks thereafter at 80 quid, need its cartridge
(s)cleaned every time you use it, and be obsolete (i,e, inks
unavailable) in 3 years.


Thanks.

Arthur

The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?


Don't.

Get a laser.

Unless you don;t mind forking out 60 quid fir something that will work
for a month, need new inks thereafter at 80 quid, need its cartridge
(s)cleaned every time you use it, and be obsolete (i,e, inks

+1

My canon has worked through pretty well a whole set of colour cartridges
just in cleaning the heads when turned on (to print in black). And at
nearly £40 a set :-( Mind you, it prints very nicely (2 paper trays, cd
tray, automatic double-sided too); but I hardly dare turn it on now!

unavailable) in 3 years.


Thanks.

Arthur


--
Mike Scott (unet at scottsonline.org.uk)
Harlow Essex England

On Jan 28, 4:06*pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Don't.

Get a laser.

Unless you don;t mind forking out 60 quid fir something that will work
for a month, need new inks thereafter at 80 quid, need its cartridge
(s)cleaned every time you use it, *and be obsolete (i,e, inks
unavailable) in 3 years.


None of those problems with my Lexmark P700 series (don't recall the
exact model).

I think it was a lot less than £60 (maybe you're paying too much!).

Lexmark are not the cheapest for ink but new photo and colour inks
about £40 for both or you can just use the colour cartridge with a
black cartridge in place of the photo one and save a bit.

Works every time without cleaning.

Inks still available and it's probably 3+ years old (can't remember).

MBQ

The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Get a laser.

I would agree for black and white but one the the OP's requirement was
to be able to print some colour. This might work out an expensive
option. I was looking at a cheap colour laser in Staples. 299 for the
printer, 400 for a complete set of colour cartridges. Ouch!

Andrew

On 28 Jan, 15:32, Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks.

Arthur

Look at the HP Photosmart All in One printers. They recycle their ink
in a totally different system from other printers. Then add in an
external ink reservoir system from Inkjet Revolution. Will be a bit
more expensive initially but the ink costs thereafter are virtually
nill.

Mine gets spasmodic heavy use and when I am wanting the odd page it
will wheeze and huff a bit as it cleans its jets and recirculates the
ink, but it so far has been extremely reliable and cheap to run,
including excellent quality photo printing at A4.

Rob

Don't.

Get a laser.

I might have said this five years ago, but it's definitely unfair to HP 1200
series (which include a scanner)

Arthur 51 wrote:
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
Any suggestions based on experience?

I've been pretty happy with my Brother MFC 5840CN. I suppose I'm not
that demanding a user, but it just sits there and spits out printed
paper as required. Can be connected to a network which could be handy if
you don't want to use it in the same place as the computer - a fairly
unusual feature on machines at the cheap end of the market. I think my
favourite feature is the proper internal paper trays, unlike the upright
chutes on most cheap inkjets. The (OS X) driver seems to diferentiate
automatically between envelopes and normal paper, so if I print a
document consisting of a letter and its envelope they come out on the
right things without messing about (I have envelopes in the small tray
and paper in the big one). I did price up replacement cartridges before
I bought it, and guess I wouldn't have done so if they were silly price.
But they haven't needed replacing yet, and I can't remember what the
prices were. They are single-colour ones though which helps avoid waste.

Pete

robgraham wrote:
On 28 Jan, 15:32, Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks.

Arthur

Look at the HP Photosmart All in One printers. They recycle their ink
in a totally different system from other printers. Then add in an
external ink reservoir system from Inkjet Revolution. Will be a bit
more expensive initially but the ink costs thereafter are virtually
nill.

I replaced a Lexmark 5500 (cartridges an arm + leg) with a HP F2180 all in
one. Cartridges a quarter of the price & I'm well pleased with it. Wasn't
that expensive either.

Whats this Inkjet Revolution thing?


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

On 29 Jan, 00:25, "The Medway Handyman"
wrote:
robgraham wrote:
On 28 Jan, 15:32, Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Thanks.

Arthur

Look at the HP Photosmart All in One printers. They recycle their ink
in a totally different system from other printers. Then add in an
external ink reservoir system from Inkjet Revolution. Will be a bit
more expensive initially but the ink costs thereafter are virtually
nill.

I replaced a Lexmark 5500 (cartridges an arm + leg) with a HP F2180 all in
one. Cartridges a quarter of the price & I'm well pleased with it. Wasn't
that expensive either.

Whats this Inkjet Revolution thing?

--
Dave - The Medway Handymanwww.medwayhandyman.co.uk
01634 717930
07850 597257

The HP CISS type printers (not sure what CISS is but Continuous Ink
Supply System seems to fit) can take an external pack of inks which
are enormous in comparison to the tichy cartridges the manufacturers
normally sell. The pack sits beside the printer and is coupled in by
a neat bank of flexible tubes. The system was easy to fit and has
given absolutely no bother. Search on Ebay fro 'CISS ink'

Rob

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On Jan 28, 4:06*pm, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Arthur 51 wrote:
Hi all.
I want to buy a cheap all-in-one colour ink-jet.
The only essential is that it must be a tray feed and the
paper pick up is better than 98% reliable.
I'm not going to be printing photos but some colour
documents to make reading practice matierial for
5 year old daughter.

Any suggestions based on experience?

Don't.

Get a laser.

Unless you don;t mind forking out 60 quid fir something that will work
for a month, need new inks thereafter at 80 quid, need its cartridge
(s)cleaned every time you use it, *and be obsolete (i,e, inks
unavailable) in 3 years.


None of those problems with my Lexmark P700 series (don't recall the
exact model).

Nor my HP930C - about 7 years old, cartridges are about GBP 15 and GBP 5
for colour and black - for re-manufactured ones. still easily available,
doesn't need to clean all the time - hardly ever AFAICS.

Anyway, I don't think a colour laser (the op wants colour) is a sensible
option in this case - for mono it would be.
--
Chris French