In terms of ink consumation, speed, performance etc.... which is the best in your opinion and the reasons :confused:
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In terms of ink consumation, speed, performance etc.... which is the best in your opinion and the reasons :confused:
HP are a good brand to go for if you're going to be doing a lot of heavy duty printing (especially if you want b/w laser printers). Epson are good for cheap and cheerful stuff, plus you can pick up unofficial cartridges for about £5 a time. The quality isn't very good in my opinion but you get what you pay for.
I've used Canon printers as well, but only one model. It worked well and held up for several years of good service with three different owners before finally giving up the ghost.
I have generally used HP both professionally and at home and found them pretty reliable.
For simple stuff, I think that all the cheap ones are much the same........they cannot afford to be anything else?
Cheers
Epson 880 - its the bast printer ive ever used.
Its very fast uses bugger all ink compared to others i have had, and if you live in england you can go to Asda and get new cartrages for £9.90 as opposed to £18 from epson!
Epson use's less ink IMO but overall I'd stick with HP for reliability and performance.
Good Day,
Gotta fall in line with HP crowd at home and don't have a choice at work. The less expensive ones will do just fine, if you only need an inkjet that doesn't cost to much. However, on the less expensive ones, the doggone ink cost more than the printers do. :eek:
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if i'm not wrong... HP is a ink sucker isnt it?
I've personally found my HPs to be fairly good on ink consumption, but the cartridges tend to be a lot more expensive then the Epson ones (especially if you buy the "unofficial" cartridges which are about £5 a time). However, HP is by far the most reliable brand I have ever used when it comes to printers, because that's what they're good at (just like Canon are good at cameras).
Death_Knight
I think that the "deskjet" series are on the heavy side, but the laserjets are the opposite. I have two, and they are still on their original cartridges! I guess they have done 10,000 pages between them.Quote:
if i'm not wrong... HP is a ink sucker isnt it?
If you buy a single cartridge printer, is is really only for "casual" use. Colour and black are more efficient and individual colour even better from an economy viewpoint. I picked up some of those old fashioned physical data switches and use two printers, which is not so much of a hassle to me as I mostly print B&W and if it is colour it will be all at one time so switching over and resetting the default printer only takes a few seconds.
Cheers
I have an HP 656c I bought about 2 years ago, for $50. Still works great although it does take awhile to print out the pages. That is not a concern to me, because I just go and do something else while it is printing, not in a hurry here. Cartridges are expensive, and sometimes it is cheaper to buy a new printer with the included ink, but I will stick with this because I don't print out alot of pages. My daughter is the only one who uses the color, although I have finally got here to print out here school work in grayscale. The little things that add up.
i think Canon ink are the cheapest isnt it?
yup, hp works well on printing speacially the colored ones. And also hp cartridges are easier to refill...^_^
Any hp deskjet user? how's the ink usage.... how about the printer scanner copier all in one ?
I have a Hp4 laser printer in the office and its been running for a long time. (Over 100,000 pages) Just replaced the rollers. Its a good printer ink-wise and I have not had any problems with it. (knocks on wood)
Yes I have a Deskjet 940c. It uses a hell of a lot more ink than the laserjets, but the quality is very good.Quote:
Any hp deskjet user? how's the ink usage.... how about the printer scanner copier all in one ?
For a copier I would want laser technology, not inkjet. A "jack of all trades is master of none"
Cheers
hmm... can you explain more... i'm a noob on printers... haQuote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Yes I have a Deskjet 940c. It uses a hell of a lot more ink than the laserjets, but the quality is very good.
For a copier I would want laser technology, not inkjet. A "jack of all trades is master of none"
Cheers
Sorry Mate!
I did not quite see where you were coming from /my bad
If you are just in a standard office/home environment, and only want to print letters, e-mails, and information from websites; AND you are going to print, say, no more than 20 pages per day, I would look for a cheaper laser black and white printer. If it is 20 pages per week then an inkjet is probably what you need?
If you have more volume then you need a slightly more expensive one...........like my best HP laser will do 12 pages per minute.
My point is that the ink consumption on a laser is minimal when compared to an inkjet, and the printer heads don't clog up like they do on an inkjet, so they will tolerate a lot longer idle time?
Now, if you have a requirement for colour printing, your economical solution has to be inkjet? How many pages of what do you think that you will print?
To give you a bit better advice I will need to know your usage requirements first, I think that we need to determine what sort of printer you need before suggesting a type and make?
So:
1. How many pages per week
2. How many colour/B&W
3. How many shares on the device (PCs attached)
Cheers
Hmm... if i print occassionally from websites information maybe 10 pages/per week? Hardly print any photos mostly would be text printing from me. But on the economy side the laser printer would print a cheaper cost /per page over a longer time whereas inkjet would be more expensive in the cost of printing perpage compare to laser printer. But there's a trade off as well, laser printer are much more expensive at the start. Just curious about how many page a laser/inkjet ink cartridge would able to print and their cost price.
Death_Knight,
That sounds like a cheap laser printer to me unless you want colour? I personally feel that I pay about a third the price for laser prints..............Like I said, they have big cartridges that are quite expensive, but I have yet to replace one in 4-5 years?
Also, the money for the machine buys reliability..........
If I were going to buy a printer tomorrow I would get an HP laser.............
just my personal experiences :)
Well i've just got my new printer canon i560 :D Thanks for all yoru advice. got so fed up with my epson c41 printerQuote:
Originally posted here by nihil
Death_Knight,
That sounds like a cheap laser printer to me unless you want colour? I personally feel that I pay about a third the price for laser prints..............Like I said, they have big cartridges that are quite expensive, but I have yet to replace one in 4-5 years?
Also, the money for the machine buys reliability..........
If I were going to buy a printer tomorrow I would get an HP laser.............
just my personal experiences :)
I like HP they are reliable and have pretty good replacement policy and their ink is available everywhere.
However once you start getting into heavy duty network printing I don't really like the HP's.
- Adiz