My ink cartridges are an extortionate price (£82 for duo pack) for my HP printer. I have been thinking of getting a wireless printer for a while. I did try a short time ago but when I got it home you needed a smart phone to operate some of the functions! Just need a basic printer that can also scan.
Yes Pat, after reading a recomendation on Computer Active I bought an Epson WF-3620 as the inks were for buttons.
Sadly it stopped working about 2 years later and I moved onto another Epson WF-3720 but the inks are FOUR times the price.
So see what the replacement inks are first as I'm sure all printers will do the job.
If you dont need to print in colour then get a black and white laser printer. More reliable and the toners last for ages and can cost less than a set of inks for an inkjet.
If you have to have an inkjet Epson do an EcoTank range where you just refill the cartridges at a fraction of the price of a set of inks. Im not that familiar with them though but did set one up for someone and filled it with ink. Seemed ok.
I have a normal Epson printer (not an ecotank one) which can be wireless but was pretty pants at that so I have it wired in now. When I came to replace the ink cartridges a full Epson set was nearly the same price as the bloody printer!
Luckily I have a French fiend who is a big fromage in Epson over there so when we last hooked up a few years ago I got a load of cartridges off him for only 25% of the price.
When they ran out I just bought non brand replacements off Ebay. The printer warns me that they are rubbish and I should buy proper (i.e. expensive) ones, but they work just the same tbh and are maybe 25/30% of the price of the original OEM ones.
I rarely print in colour. The existing printer has just had a new colour cartridge so I could keep it for colour printing and get a laser printer for everyday use. Once the self build is finished the usage will go down a lot.
Agreed Pat, 'rarely' but quite important for us when the odd one is needed. Copying passports, ID cards, medical cards and some utility docs need colour here. So I probably get through 3/4 large black carts to 1 set of colours.
And yes G, connected wirelessly always makes me wonder if it going to work. Seems to be a long hesitation of maybe 10 to 15 secs before it staggers into life.
I switched to lazy printers years ago, 8 had colour at first but now I have a wireless mono laser, had it 4 years now cost 50 quid still works fine it needs a new toner cartridge which it needed 2 years ago but apart from a couple of blobs when printing it is still going, and if a page happens to get wet, it doesn't run.
They used to be mega xpensive when 8 was selling them in the 90s, but cheap as chips now.
I'm considering replacing my home broadband with a voda sim with sufficient data - then I can take it with me when I travel. It was important that I be able to print without 'proper' WiFi but setting the phone as a hot-spot works well.
I don't really like wireless printers. I had one a couple of months ago and usually had problems with the wi-fi connection. My internet is high-speed, but it wasn't enough for that printer (HP OfficeJet Pro 8720). The same thing was when using my mobile data. Calling a specialist didn't really help, so I eventually sold this printer and thinking o buying a normal one.
I wanna get smth like Samsung ML 2165, but not really sure about it. You can read its features here on https://www.mrdepot.ca/products/samsung-ML-2165-toner and give your opinion about it. Saw some reviews on Amazon, and people usually rate this printer high.
Somehow either by ethernet or Wi-Fi connections it can take about 30 seconds sometimes to get to print and by then I have clicked print again resulting in more prints.
Patience child patience, mine takes about a minute to warm up as do all lasers connected or not as it is a heat process, printing is about 30 seconds after, mine is in a different part of the house two rooms away with no problems, a cheap £50 jobby.
I have a Canon Pixma MG5750 that prints great via wifi from laptop, desktop, android phones and tablets and an ipad (which doesn't always do double sided when set).
You have to have the Canon print app on each device and it takes a while to wake up sometimes, and you have to tell it to find and select the printer.
I also have a Epson XP-342 which is a bit more fussy but that is next to my desktop pc
The Canon was about £70 and their inks £65 but I've found both Cartridge People and Ink Factory compatibles to work fine and they are recognised as genuine. The very cheap unbranded ones are rubbish. Ink Factory do buy 1 get 1 free for about £25 a set.
Always buy a printer with separate cartridges for each colour.
We used to have a colour laser, but after 4 years of not actually needing colour and it deciding it didn't want to print Jpegs we replaced it with a mono laser, £50, after a while the printouts had dots on them so we bought a new cartridge, this was ages ago, but it hasn't got any worse so we never bothered to fit the cartridge, unless you need colour get mono, if you like changing cartridges get an inkjet. Absolutely ages ago I was given a dye sublimation printer, now that was fun, unbeatable quality though.
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