My HP printer has died.
I spend 1000s on printer cartridges, and want to buy the most economical option this time.
Can anyone recommend the best make for good running costs?
Epson seems to have very cheap cartridges, but they also seems to have very little ink in them.
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Dave
An official Epson dealer will charge £15 to reset the counter (which is what is stopping it printing) and more to actually clean the waste ink pad (which actually needs done very infrequently) - it is a scam by Epson to try to claw back money they are no longer making from their ink due to people using compatibles.
Or you can download software to reset the counter for free off the net if you know where to look.
Regardless, it is a money grabbing scam by Epson and the reason I will never purchase one of their products every again.
I have had decent ink life from a Canon, although the cheapest long term option is to get yourself a laser printer.
You'll save a fortune.
I've used these guys before:
http://www.smart-cartridge.com/map.htm
They'll guarantee a colour match against the manufacturers cartridges. If it doesn't match, you can get a refund. A refill from them costs about 50% of the price of a new cartridge ...
I've used all types including the wax type and they are also dear to run - compatible refills are a good option - I buy from cartridge monkey. Rule of thumb the cheaper the printer the more it costs to run.
Does anyone have any suggestions on what HP model to look out for that uses cheap cartridges ?
Many thanks
www.ebuyer.com/product/118845
HP Printers that take cartridge number 339 (Black) is good. I have 2 the HP Photosmart D5160 and HP Deskjet 5940 not sure if they are still available now. Also printers that take the XL cartridges would be good these tend to be slightly more expensive than the cheapo £30 ones.
i pay 70p for a new and boxed cartridge,you may be able to get them for a bit less than that.
i use an epson R200 but there are plenty of other epson printers with cheap cartidges around 70-80 pence to £1
We still have the Laserjet 1300, but we replaced the Deskjet with an HP Laserjet 2600N which is a colour laser printer. It was really good value and although it costs about £105 to replace all the toner cartridges, they do about 3000 pages which is about 3p per page compared to about 18p/page with the inkjet printer.
It doesn't sound like a massive saving but we do a LOT of printing as my mum works from home.
Therefore if you do a lot of printing then consider a laser printer!
Yes the download is easy to find.
If you by any printer this is for Epson mainly never turn the printer off. when you turn them off and on they spray ink on to the mat every time to keep the heads clean.
1 it uses your ink
2 fills the ink mat
3 the counter still counts these as printed jobs.
I have a canon ip5200 very good
2 blacks
1 blue
1 pink
1 yellow
Full set of compatibles £8.00
So i went back to epson and i am really happy with them.
Even better is this site where you can get cheaper ink cartridges www.inksave.co.uk so just see.
Oh, that is the same as my printer. Yes it is very good, where do you get your inks from? I was using ChoiceStationary but I don't think they were as cheap as that last time I bought some.
http://www.recycleinkcartridges.co.uk - it's the more ink for your money section.
It actually lists every printer cartridge made by HP and compares them ml for ml. I think there's an Epson one coming as well.
I've always used HP (and because of that all printers at work are HP as well). The inks not only last fairly well, but changing the ink gives you a brand new print head every time as well.
People I know with Epson and Canon etc. have always had problems with print heads failing, even if only blocked and can't be cleared.