Hello folks!
Every time i decide to buy a printer my wife stops me from it considering the later expenses of buying cartridges. She prefers buying an Inkjet which are not so cheap and usually i am tempted to go for desk jet deals coming up often. Don't want to spend much as usage is not so common but its those days where you say i wished i have a printer. How to evaluate this printer buying? is it really worth it to buy a deskjet with deals around $60-$100 or wait for an Inkjet deal?
not sure if serious but these actually look alright
I've had one for years…
each colour bottle costs me $17 and lasts 2 years + and we print a lot.
+2 From me for Ecotank. We have 2 at home (we use 2 different types of paper and one has a sheet feeder for scanning), though I got 'given' one.
Avoid the Canon version. I see too many faulty ones.
thanks @jv will add this to my watch list - have been getting by for years with black white laser only but could do with some colour as would make my office life a little easier but was always put off by on-going costs of ink colour printers.
@Jimothy Wongingtons: Get onto the Epson Australia mailing list.
They occasionally send out emails about open box deals with significant discounts….
The starter inks alone will probably pay off half the printer cost compared to buying cartridges.
+3 for Ecotank, bought ET-1810 on @jv recommendation, loving it.
Bought this for $19 in 2020: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/594306
Print 4-5 sheets a month for returns/flight bookings etc. Still on the original starter ink.
Used the scanner quite a bit though, has been quite handy.
Don't want to spend much as usage is not so common but its those days where you say i wished i have a printer
For those times you need a printer, do you really need colour? Have you considered getting a black and white laser printer instead?
Have you considered getting a black and white laser printer instead?
photos look crap on it and it costs more to run than my colour printer.
Fair enough. I forget these printers are used for things other than documents/A4 pages.
I have a separate Canon Selphy printer for photos which works pretty well.
at $1 per photo?
Every time i decide to buy a printer my wife stops me
Sounds like the wife is the barrier of entry for OP to get a printer… how to justify to the wife?
how to justify to the wife?
Time to upgrade…
and change title to: How to Evaluate Buying a Partner
This is the way.
Buy buy a multifunction with duplex scanner.
We scan as much as we print.
Go years without thinking about buying printer ink
I'd hope so, as Laser printers use toner, not ink, lol
There's always one 😛
When you work in I.T. and you get people saying the laser printer has run out of ink, or their SSD Hard Drive isn't a large enough capacity, or they want more RAM so they can store more photos … y'just can't help it ha ha
I bought a mono laser printer 10 years ago through this deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/128849
Have printed hundreds of pages and still going strong. They are the same size as an inkjet and haven't had to replace a cartridge yet.
The only thing good about an inkjet is that many of them have a scanner but smartphones with a decent app do a good job anyway.
Depending on what you are using the printer for but I've found a colour laser printer is significantly cheaper, faster and more reliable than any of the myriad of inkjets I've had previously,.
I'm currently using a Xerox P12: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/403897708022?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mk…
I use aftermarket toner from this seller, a full set of colours + black is only $30 or so…: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/231760973633
Has been totally reliable and really cheap to run - been going many years now, purchased in 2017 or so….
what do you use the printer for? if mainly for documents laser B+W is cheap as chips if you pick the right model and don't update the firmware and stick to aftermarket toners. problem with inkjet is they dry up and clog up if you print infrequently or waste ink flushing it - becomes a bit of false economy.
Just get an Epson Ecotank…