Good Printers

[shoegirl]

Sorry for the boring message! We have a printer at the moment than runs out of ink after about a week.

I think we need an upgrade. Anyone using a business printer, with good prices for cartridges?

Thanks so much

 

[MyAccountantOnline]

Sorry for the boring message! We have a printer at the moment than runs out of ink after about a week.

I think we need an upgrade. Anyone using a business printer, with good prices for cartridges?

Thanks so much

In my office we do very little printing now but use our faithful old HP Laserjet 1020 printers with cartridges (which last for ages) from Ebay for less than £10.

 

[reacha]

Sorry for the boring message! We have a printer at the moment than runs out of ink after about a week.

I think we need an upgrade. Anyone using a business printer, with good prices for cartridges?

Thanks so much

I gave up with ink cartridge machines, we use a HP1005 (there are newer versions), toners cost £15 and less and last for ages, small cheap reliable fast printer,

 

[pinklaura1234]

I just bought epson stylus sx130 for £25 off amazon, you can use non epson cartridges to refill but they take a bit of messing around with before they will register.

 

[Tom McClelland]

Inkjet cartridges seem like the most expensive fluid in the world.

Query to yourself how much you need colour printing for most of your work, and maybe get a smart B&W laser printer for less than £100. The toner cartridges last for thousands of pages.

A colour laser will be much cheaper than an inkjet in the long run, but the cost of refills when they are required can be enormous. Ludicrously it can be cheaper to buy another new printer with another set of c. 1500 page cartridges than it is to buy toner refills. Also with colour lasers the quality never matches a good inkjet (lasers are OK, they just aren't as good) so maybe keep the inkjet just for when you want super quality colour photo output.

 

[alligiftor]

We use a old brother DCP145C with a CISS kit fitted lasted forever, great for printing invoice etc, we bought the CISS over a year ago and it's still going strong never been filled yet and only cost £29.99 on Ebay

 

[neildigital]

I do not charge you for any cartidges. Only the print with no minimum charges...

Neil

 

[OliverLuke]

I would reccommend using Toner's, I sell Xerox Replacement ones (they last forever)

 

[kulture]

Sorry for the boring message! We have a printer at the moment than runs out of ink after about a week.

I think we need an upgrade. Anyone using a business printer, with good prices for cartridges?

Thanks so much

As others have said, look at your print volumes and consider your options.
When you buy a printer it is always better to look at the cost of ownership for a couple of years rather than the initial up front cost.

As you know your typical weekly print volume you will be able to do the calculations. You will find that the running costs over two years will normally vastly exceed the initial printer cost. Especially with inkjets.

I have normally found that Kyocera printers to be cheapest in the long term. Especially if you go to three years or more as they tend to keep on going whereas other makes need new drums, belts, image transfer thingys etc. At which point it is normally cheaper to buy a new printer.

Again as others have said, a B/W laser and your existing inkjet for colour may be the way forward.

 

[shoegirl]

great info thank you. we only print black and white and we print about 200 pages a week.
kitty

 

[Tom McClelland]

great info thank you. we only print black and white and we print about 200 pages a week.
kitty

A decent laser printer will print for months on each toner cartridge, at a tiny fraction of the running costs of inkjet. Invest slightly more to get double-sided printing (I've got a Canon LBP6300 available new @ c. £100 online sitting next to me in the office) and you save on paper as well in the long run, as long as you do documents that come to more than one page.