Posted: 10/26/2006 10:45:43 AM EDT
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whats good out there? any suggestions on cheaper ink? thx |
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How much do you print? I almost never use my printers, cant remember the last time to be honest. If I need printing, I print at work or use an online printing service. All you do is email your file and tell em how many you want. Much cheaper than a 70 dollar printer. If you print lots, see how much ink is FIRST then get the printer. |
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HP Photosmart all in one scanner, copier, printer (5100 or 5400) a little over 200 bucks at Wallyworld. The cartridges are 10 bucks a piece (vivara?) it's a six ink printer so each cartridge tends to last longer than those in a 3 or 4 ink printer. had good luck with it so far. |
consumer stuff is junk.
why Canon? I have an HP and it and their price on ink SUX!!!! Lexmark from wally world and ink is not too bad. |
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Canon CX4800 all-in-one here. Ink lasts and its affordable, can be refilled or bought reman also but not necessary, $13 per color. You can buy individual colors, so if you're only out of yellow, you just replace yellow. I've had 3 different lexmarks before this. I thought they printed good with quality results. What a joke! Their ink price sucks, and my last "high yield" color cartridge printed 3 sheets and that was it... second time that happened. Fuck Lexmark. Now I can print photos... and they really look like photos! I'll be sticking with Canons. |
Canon's ink is cheap, the printers are well designed, and print beautiful pictures. Not to mention it's a Canon  From my own uses, I've had good luck with their printers. Epson's have been very problematic for me, and Lexmarks have been just ok. |
| Ink jets are pure garbage. Buy a cheap laser used on ebay (I like HPs the best, the laserjet 5s are cheap and easily available). If you need photo prints go get them at a kinkos or even walmart, they are much better than anything you'll print at home anyway. For colors get a dye sublimation printer, they won't dry out like inkjets do. |
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One of our IT guys always used to pick up life-cycled laser printers off of eBay. $50-$100, for one or two, look out for shipping, and a lot of those life-cycled printers still have buttloads of print jobs left on their toner cartridges. Don't know if that's still the case, though. I print at work, if at all. Not a big fan of paper, expect for important stuff. |