Buy new cartridges or Printer ?

[YODspica]

facing a predicament, should I take the risk on purchasing new cartridges or a new printer.

re-filled manually cartridges, only prints blanks now, but I'm guessing printer is faulty somehow, never happened before. If I buy new cartridges and the cost involved and the problem persists, its a bad choice. On the other hand if I buy a cheap printer I know I'll be ok.

thanks for the advice.

 

[Mister B]

Which type pf printer? Laser, inkjet etc. I know that with the price of some of the newer models, it's probably safer to go down the new printer road.

Mister B

 

[davidshaw89]

I think the best solutions in terms of cost (and quality) for black and white prints is to go with a laser printer.

You can pick up a decent B&W HP laser printer for around £80 (and toners for around £40-£60 which will happily print 1500 pages without needing changed) which makes laser printers cost effective even if you only print a few pages a day.

Most inkjet printers are expensive to run, and refilling cartridges isn't good IMO (they will become clogged and the ink won't be as 'clean' on the page).

Hope this helps,

 

[YODspica]

Which type pf printer? Laser, inkjet etc. I know that with the price of some of the newer models, it's probably safer to go down the new printer road.

Mister B

inkjet, but we can find for around £30 a brand new printer these days, I will have to pay the same price for branded cartridges.

 

[Mister B]

FWIW, I bought a new colour inkjet for £16 from Comet last week and last Autumn, an HP colour laserjet from PC World for £60. Both now run on recycled cartridges, the inkjets cost £7 instead of £12 and the laserjet £25 instead of £50 for the new HP ones.

Can't go wrong really

Mister B

 

Go into your printer properties and printer preferences (then maintenance tab), and ensure you clean the heads & nozzles etc first - this happens a lot when you change cartridges. Should be no need to replace the printer if it was working before you stuck these cartridges in.

 

[helenthemum]

Have a look at the dell b2b wesite they have a small selection of laser printers.

Not the cheapest to buy, but the toner replacements are cheaper than most places and they have high yeild ones which do around 5000 copies.

 

[Judge_Joolz]

Don't the inkjet cartridges have 'chips' in them to stop you refilling them? That might be the issue in your case?

Regards

JJ

 

[Minuteman Press]

Swap the chips and never let a cartridge run dry.

 

[websnail]

Can I just note that the questions that should have been asked are:

- What do you want to print?
- Will you need colour (some, all the time, no)?
- What sort of volumes do you need? (rough numbers per month)
- What operating system are you using (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc..)?

From that it'd then be possible to give you a much better idea of what you could get and where to save some money as presumably this current printer isn't exactly saving you money if you're considering a new printer instead of new cartridges.


I know this reply is rather late but I figure it would be useful to state the things to think about when you look at printing... Cheapest printer = best is definitely not the way to going.

 

[Focused]

Google Dell 1320cn and go to the Oyyy site. Colour laser £99.99 inc vat and free delivery and 4 year guarantee. Just about to order mine.

Focused