I'm looking for a good printer to print colourful signs etc.
I'm thinking about getting a cheap canon printer and buying those cheap refills.
Does anyone know which printer I should get?
Most efficient inkjet printer
samfisher5986 on 27/11/2010 - 23:24
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Its only a few full colour signs a week, nothing huge. A3 would be amazing, but considering I only want to spend $50-200 on a printer I don't think its within my price range.
I usually start with the cartridges & work backward from there, find the most cost-effective carty solution, then find a suitable printer that uses them! The compatibility books at dept stores & inkjet suppliers make good research material for this too! ;)
The Canon Pixma and MP series are good, and ink refills (those triple-color Calidad ones) are fairly cheap — only cost around $10 at Dick Smith and they'll refill each cartridge twice.
Make sure check that the printer you're about to buy has refillable ink cartridges that are compatible with these sort of refills.I have a really old Canon MP140 Pixma printer which is still using it's stock color cartridge from 2 years ago — I've refilled it quite a few times using those tri-color refills.
use inkguard with it as well
That depends a bit on how many signs you plan to print out, and if you would be satisfied with A4 size. If you have a lot of colour printing to do, you should look into CISS. It is possible to hook up large ink tanks to the back of some inkjet printers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_ink_system
http://www.rihac.com.au/