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Canon PIXMA Inkjet Printer MG2560 $20 Delivered @ Target (available in store)

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Canon PIXMA Inkjet Printer MG2560 $20 Delivered @ Target (available in store)
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geek001 on 27/08/2014 - 08:57 target.com.au (1842 clicks)
Last edited 31/08/2014 - 17:59 by 1 other user

STILL AVAILABLE ONLINE BUT THE FREE SHIPPING OPTION HAS EXPIRED. STILL AVAILABLE IN STORE FOR $20

My printer is playing up and I had been eyeing this printer for a while. But I couldn't find the printer instore at Target and delivery costs kills the deal.

I saw the free delivery deal for 24 hours and went to Target's website so I bought 2. :)

Just to pre-empt jv, The printer was $25, with the free delivery + price drop to $20. That is cheaper than print catridges.

Few things to note:

  1. Strangely, this printer seems to get bad reviews because it didn't include a USB cable. I haven't found any bad reviews about the print quality.

  2. I can't find any re-manufactured print cartridges on ebay, so you may need to refill the cartridge yourself or pay around $25 for an original Canon cartridge.

  3. Free delivery deal finish at 5pm today.

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  • roseyhead on 27/08/2014 - 09:02
    +3

    I have one of these, print quality is pretty mediocre. Any time I printed anything in colour there'd be long horizontal lines all the way down the page. It's alright if you don't print a lot but you get what you pay for.

    • medium_tight on 27/08/2014 - 10:17

      OZB will sort it out: bday present, kriss kringles, extortion msg, so on

    • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 12:22

      I owned one of these printers a few months ago. Colour printing was perfect there were no long horizontal lines. Sorry but you either have a faulty ink cartridge or a faulty printer.

      • King Tightarse on 27/08/2014 - 12:38

        Yeah HK is right, classic case of bocked color cartridge.

  • BH1 on 27/08/2014 - 09:07
    +13

    "Just to pre-empt jv"
    I love it :)

    • medium_tight on 27/08/2014 - 10:20
      +3

      He would start with: what is the normal price???

      hen followed by downpour negs on him lol

  • unity1 on 27/08/2014 - 09:07
    +2

    $29.50 at DS
    $38 at JB & HN
    $59 at TGG

    Good price for a throw away printer

  • tessel on 27/08/2014 - 09:07

    It has a scanner, correct? Great and very cheap way to get a scanner if someone needs one.

    • Jake D on 27/08/2014 - 12:12

      Yep, and despite the print quality being horrid, the scanner is quick, and reasonable quality.
      The scan software is fantastically lightweight compared to some other systems, too.

      I got one of these for some emergency printing while my $300ish A3 multifunction was being repaired. Does the trick quite well for the $30 I paid.

  • PPrem on 27/08/2014 - 09:16

    i presume it comes with a catridges.. does anyone know howmany pages it prints before it runs out?

    • [Deactivated] on 27/08/2014 - 09:29
      +1

      Don't the cartridges the printers come with have less ink than the retail-sale replacement cartridges? I swear I read that around here not long ago… been meaning to find out whether it's true or not (wouldn't surprise me if it was true - otherwise everyone would just buy brand new printers for the ink and never buy separate brand new replacement cartridges lol)

      • Axelstrife on 27/08/2014 - 09:30
        +3

        yes that is correct otherwise people would simply buy a brand new printer every times ink runs out.

        • shaybisc on 27/08/2014 - 09:52
          +1

          Sold out

        • Scrooge McDuck on 27/08/2014 - 10:10
          +5

          otherwise people would simply buy a brand new printer every times ink runs out.

          They don't?

        • Jake D on 27/08/2014 - 12:12

          @Scrooge McDuck: I sure do.

  • droidfan on 27/08/2014 - 09:17
    -1

    need pay $(*)9 for a USB cable?

    • yanman on 27/08/2014 - 09:37
      +10

      Who doesn't have 10 of these lying around the house/garage/crap-drawer??

    • Josh81 on 31/08/2014 - 01:38

      They're $2 (MSY, ITestate).

  • montorola on 27/08/2014 - 09:18
    +4

    I'd rather pay extra and get a laser printer tbh, I have too many bad memories of trying to print lecture notes/assignments and getting shafted by inkjet printers back in my uni days lol

    • spacebanana on 27/08/2014 - 09:46
      +2

      Too true, I wouldn't bother buying an inkjet printer under 180ish dollars, they are all pieces of crap that they sell at cost to get you to buy the hugely inflated ink cartridges.

      • aec on 27/08/2014 - 10:06

        lmao @ 180ish…
        190ish will be great printers?

        • Utopian on 27/08/2014 - 10:10

          Large format, printing on DVDs, compatible with continuous ink systems etc.

    • Utopian on 27/08/2014 - 10:08

      Whole-heartedly agree.
      I fell in8n love with lasers like 15 years ago. $1000 for a simple b&w… but the sharpness was phenomenal & the feature I couldn't live without: fusing the toner onto the paper. Never see your work run again (ie water bottle/coffee cup sitting on it).

  • MrBillions on 27/08/2014 - 09:19

    Are there any discount codes for this?

    • Brandroid on 27/08/2014 - 09:39

      As in, 'are there discount codes that are usable with this deal' or 'is there a discount code required to get this deal'? If it's the first, I don't think so. All the ones I found are the '$10 off $60+' variety. If it's the second, no discount code required.

      • MrBillions on 27/08/2014 - 09:41

        I was hoping to use a welcome or springtime coupon that reduces this even further, but all seemed to be tied to min spend.

  • strikerzebra on 27/08/2014 - 09:46

    Cheers, awesome offer, needed a printer and a scanner, ordered 1

  • cowiie on 27/08/2014 - 09:51

    I have a laser and the non genuine toner refills are only $7.50 and last up to 2500 pages

    • Wally on 27/08/2014 - 09:56
      +1

      What brand laser and is colour printing?

    • geek001 on 27/08/2014 - 09:56
      +1

      Which model is that, mate? I might switch to that after I go through these printers. I always reckon I don't print enough to justify spending money on a laser printer. 2500 pages will last me quite a few years at least.

      • [Deactivated] on 27/08/2014 - 10:06
        +2

        after I go through these printers

        lol printers, plural? How many did you buy?

    • Utopian on 27/08/2014 - 10:05

      DIY Refills?
      Nasty stuff, man! Stick to cheap refurbs.

      Done it in the past, never again. Filled the vacuum bag/head/pipes cleaning-out the cartridges with their carcinogenic contents.

      Looked like a unicorn threw-up in it, and only blowing it everywhere, with compressed air, got the vacuum clean/safe again.

  • ofey on 27/08/2014 - 09:52

    I just wanted to add, Canon Pixma's are a nightmare for those who run Ubuntu or any other Linux flavor.

    • Jake D on 27/08/2014 - 12:15
      +1

      Who prints from their server?

  • congo on 27/08/2014 - 09:54
    +1

    Sold out online

  • narz on 27/08/2014 - 09:55
    +1

    "Sold out online"

    Edit: Beaten.

  • [Deactivated] on 27/08/2014 - 10:43

    Is this model able to be linked up via WiFi?

    • miq on 27/08/2014 - 11:07

      No.

    • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 12:24

      USB port only.

  • [Deactivated] on 27/08/2014 - 11:15
    +1

    There's something drastically wrong when a printer/scanner is cheaper than the ink that comes with it.

    • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 12:24

      The ink that comes with it is only starter cartridges. You'll be lucky if you get 60 pages out of them.

      The genuine Canon PG-645XL high yield black cartridge is $33.04 and the CL-646XL high yield colour cartridge is $37.76 from Officeworks. So to replace both cartridges with high yield cartridges will set you back $70.80. That's over 3 times what this printer itself was just going for from Target. So you can see that the genuine printer ink cartridges for this printer are not cheap. And you only get 400 pages black and 300 pages colour from the high yield cartridges (there is only one colour cartridge so divide the 300 pages by 3 brings 100 pages for each cyan, yellow and magenta ink colours. All 3 colours are built into the one cartridge). Is one of the reasons i got rid of the Pixma MG2560 printer i had a few months ago it was too costly to maintain.

      To sum it up the printer itself may be cheap but the ink cartridge consumables costs a small fortune.

      • geek001 on 27/08/2014 - 12:50

        Umm.. I am not planning to buy cartridges, I still have some black refills from my HP printer that is playing up now.

        It's not hard to drill two holes, squeeze in some ink, and tape over the holes.

        • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 13:08

          Some printers especially the more modern ones you can't simply do that just squirt more ink into the cartridge and off you go it also requires a new cartridge chip. I'd say this may be one of them since this printer does use chipped cartridges which records and tracks ink levels.

        • geek001 on 27/08/2014 - 15:02

          @hollykryten: You are right. My current HP printer does keep track of that. Still, I found that I can refill the cartridge about 3 times before it will refuse to do it anymore, probably picking up the page count is too high.

  • zxcvb on 27/08/2014 - 11:16

    EPSON XP-400 with Wifi and Scanner at $50 is a much better deal. Was available at officeworks earlier this year.

    • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 12:25

      But not now so that comment is pointless. Be a legit comment if the printer was currently on sale for that price.

      • zxcvb on 27/08/2014 - 12:36

        Just to compare value vs price.

        • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 12:38

          Yeah this Pixma printer is quite poor value when you take into account the running costs for the genuine Canon consumables such as the replacement ink cartridges. This printer only comes out of the box with very low page starter cartridges. The replacement PG-645XL black cartridge itself costs more to buy than what this printer just went for from Target.

          As i said people will be lucky if they get 60 pages printout from the starter cartridges.

  • montorola on 27/08/2014 - 12:57
    -1

    Just for future reference everyone, DO NOT -UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES- BUY A LEXMARK! THEY SUCK!!!
    I bought one of those $9 Dell printers, and it's still in the box after I learned that Lexmark made em.

    • hollykryten on 27/08/2014 - 13:11
      +3

      Maybe you could donate the printer to some one if you don't want it! :)

    • Josh81 on 31/08/2014 - 01:43

      Agreed. The printhead on my Lexmark died 2mths out of a 3yr warranty, and just because the printhead was stuffed it wouldn't let me scan!

  • AssociatedJackAtDaisy @ Target Australia on 27/08/2014 - 16:10

    These were in the store for the back to school sale. I haven't personally seen any myself since, but there might still be some in stores, but I wouldn't ride my money on it,

    • terrys on 28/08/2014 - 08:45
      +1

      There are still two out on the shelf at Marion Target,[at $25] and Castle Plaza had a few. I have made a habit of staying with Brother since HP started filling any increase in user RAM with zombie crap, and Epson and Canon decided to go for `chipped' cartridges with quick-blocking inks and the continence of a pregnant pig on cider.

  • unity1 on 29/08/2014 - 10:45
    +1

    Saw 5 printers at Knox City this morning. They were marked at $20.

    • hashtagbargain on 29/08/2014 - 13:50

      Could you grab me one please? :)

      • unity1 on 29/08/2014 - 15:41
        +1

        I could but by the time You factor in postage it would be cheaper to buy from dick smith who are selling it for. $29.50 delivered.

  • Josh81 on 31/08/2014 - 17:02

    Called Target Indooroopilly store, and they have no printers. The guy said maybe their bigger stores have them, but they only have them during back to school.
    When to buy online, and it said they had stock, but when I added 1 to cart it said not enough to fulfill order. And then I refreshed and it said sold out. :(

  • Josh81 on 02/09/2014 - 15:45

    None available at Brisbane City store, Mount Ommaney, or Indooroopilly.
    Time to look for something else.

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