Yawn, yet another printer question
 

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
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
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cheese.

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

On 06/02/13 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
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

If you want permanency get a laser.
been very happy with the HP 1525n

It does cost a bomb to re-toner, but that doesn't happen often. And the
colors appear to be fast..


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lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the
members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are
rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a
diminishing number of producers.

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

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.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

Martin Brown wrote:


I haven't found cheap BCI-6 photo inks I was happy with either which
makes them a bit expensive to fuel.

Cannon BCI-6 ink cartridges are one of the easiest of all to refill
use some quality ink from
http://www.octoink.co.uk/
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b3erfod
and the results are indistinguishable from original Canon ink

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Yawn, yet another printer question
 

On 06/02/2013 20:04, Martin Brown wrote:
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.

+1.

Only manual double sided and most of my printing is b&w so I have a
laserjet 2300 dn as well.

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

On 06/02/2013 22:39, Mark wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:


I haven't found cheap BCI-6 photo inks I was happy with either which
makes them a bit expensive to fuel.

Cannon BCI-6 ink cartridges are one of the easiest of all to refill
use some quality ink from
http://www.octoink.co.uk/
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b3erfod
and the results are indistinguishable from original Canon ink


In the good old days, I used to refill my deskjet cartridges with Quink
(fountain pen ink).

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

In message , Broadback
writes
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
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

Our Canon iP5000 printer finally died a couple of days ago having seen
my son through reams of homework.

After a lot of time spent researching I've bought an Epson Workforce
WP-4535 as replacement. Yes it's a big bugger and not cheap at £180,
(from the local PCWorld - I did try to buy it at independents but none
had stock), but all the reviews mention the low running costs.

And yes, it ADF scans & copies & can fax and it's ethernet & Wi-Fi
connectable none of which I particularly need but they don't distract
from its plus points. I may eventually discard the Epson 1650 scanner we
have though for now I need it as I still have some old slides to
digitize.

--
Simon

12) The Second Rule of Expectations
An EXPECTATION is a Premeditated resentment.

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

On 06/02/2013 22:39, Mark wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:


I haven't found cheap BCI-6 photo inks I was happy with either which
makes them a bit expensive to fuel.

Cannon BCI-6 ink cartridges are one of the easiest of all to refill
use some quality ink from
http://www.octoink.co.uk/
http://preview.tinyurl.com/b3erfod
and the results are indistinguishable from original Canon ink

OK. Thanks very much for that. I have always been disappointed with
clone cartridges and pretty much gave up trying them. These days I only
ever use the i9100 for A5 posters anyway since I got the colour laser.

I know there are third party bulk ink systems for it but my print volume
doesn't merit using them.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

Yawn, yet another printer question
 

Broadback wrote on Feb 6, 2013:

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
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


A year ago replaced my 10 year old Canon with a Hewlett Packard Photosmart
5515 all-in-one. I'm very happy with it because:
1. it's wireless (or USB) so I can print from my laptop or my main desktop,
2. it scans and copies as well as printing very well,
3. it can print duplex (i.e. on both sides) automatically which I find useful
for long documents,
4. It only cost £80 from Curry's

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Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com