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angellonewolf
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mono lazer if you dont use colour
just before you buy cheak the price of the tonner most you can use copy or refilled ones my samsung is a 10er and lasts
just before you buy cheak the price of the tonner most you can use copy or refilled ones my samsung is a 10er and lasts
We have a HP printer and have the HP instant ink account, we barely print anything so have the minimum subscription which is free and allows you 15 pages a month, they send you new free cartridges when the printer tells them it’s low. For our minimal use it has saved us a lot of money on cartridges we would have needed to buy. It seems too good to be true but it works.
Not sure how it would compare price wise to buying cartridges if you were printing a lot.
Not sure how it would compare price wise to buying cartridges if you were printing a lot.
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If you only use it occasionally and don't really need colour, I'd go for a mono laser. I got sick of my old Epson inkjet and its constant clogging, hoofed it across the yard in the end.
I paid £100 for a refurbed HP 2300, still going 4 years later on the cartridge it came with.
I paid £100 for a refurbed HP 2300, still going 4 years later on the cartridge it came with.
One of these, though above your budget gives you just shy of 3000 pages printing with the included toners, and does all of your scanning needs https://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/h...laser-printer-3-recycled-hp-toner-cartridges/
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Look up HP cutting people's printers off remotely when they don't renew their Instant Ink subscription.
In answer to the OP - mono laser is the way to go if you don't use colour much.
I picked up a couple of monos years ago for very little money and it's amazing how they're still supported on the replacement spares market.
For colour I use a Brother laser.
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best to have both a mono printer and a colour printer
mono for black and white and colour printer when needed
where alot of people go wrong is they dont print once a week to keep there printer heads in good condition
but if they dont there printer heads dry up
mono for black and white and colour printer when needed
where alot of people go wrong is they dont print once a week to keep there printer heads in good condition
but if they dont there printer heads dry up
Just any inkjet printer that does not refuse to print if the cartridges have been refilled after registering as empty. I use a Canon Pixma because it was thrown as "free" in a deal for some AV gear, it has printed at least 15 reams of paper and still soldiers on. I buy black ink in 200ml bottles from a German company by the name of Octopus, its cheap, good quality ink and it takes me about 5 minutes to refill a cartridge from removal to refitting, €26.70 cheaper than €27 for a new OEM cartridge. No my hands don't get covered in ink, syringe with a needle included with ink order, disposable poly gloves from the petrol station.
The print head life is a "mileage may vary" parameter, I keep the printer in a cleanish area, I think perhaps 15 refills before I notice streaks of faintness that a nozzle clean does not remedy, some report less, very few report more than that.
External ink tanks are good, I have a plotter for CAD drawings and it is simple and cheap to housekeep and feed but there is a premium on seperate tank printers, no £100 tank printer exists, perhaps I will be educated on that assertion.
No doubt they have the capability to do this but we’ve had it for must be over 5 years now, have always been on the free subscription and have gone over the 15 pages a month allowance a handful of times in that time so maybe paid them a total of tenner for excess pages. They keep sending cartridges when required. Even if they cut it off tomorrow we’ve had our monies worth 10 times over compared to the traditional buying the cartridges.
For what it's worth, the worst two printers I ever owned was HP and Lexmark the best two were Brother, the Brother I have now, an all in one, I've had for 8 years without issue.
Or if just black printing required buy a mono laser printer but having colour can be useful.
If budget can be increased buy a 4 ink cartridge printer, either refill yourself or find a reliable source and buy compatible, goes for toner to.
For years I have been ordering cartridges online from a company called ink n toner, they also or did have a shop, back end of London somewhere, saved a small fortune and reliable.
Useful thanks,which model pixma,what ink cartridges,are they single colour or colour all in one,do you poke the syringe in anywhere at the top?
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i get the 5 litre in different colours to suit what i need
if i just want black 1L 20.00
if i just want black 1L 20.00
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It's painful to read all of this, when I have a fully working, network capable Xerox 6600DN that you could have for your budget. Plenty of toner left, and compatible cartridges are very reasonable. It will want a waste tank before long, but I have a new one to go with it. You are not so far away, so you could come and see it in action.
Pixma 5151. Black seperate cartridge. Colour, cyan, magenta, yellow in the same cartridge. There is always a moulding spot underneath the label to locate where to pierce. A small drill bit, I use a 1mm drill in a pin chuck but a small cordless or even a bench drill would work, the plastic of the cartridge is not thick, a small piece of insul tape over the hole after.
If you are mostly or exclusively printing black then ajlelectronics probably has what you need.
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Nope, the 6600 is a full colour, 4 cartridge laser.
I know it is, I once owned one. He said he wants to print mostly black.
