billytheghillie Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 looking for a colour printer, mainly to do photos. must be wireless and small and cheap.cartridge price also comes into consideration. what do you guys recommend? cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosd Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Kodac Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickmep Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 personally i always go epsom, and check that its a model you can get compatible inks for. we've go a sx445 does printing scanning etc and wireless, was about £45 and inks are less than £1 each for it from the bay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
figgy Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 The HP Photosmart air print ones are very good, I bought one a month ago, cartridges are cheap and cheap online ones are even better value. Don't know exact model untill I'm home but it uses 364 printer cartridges. Paid about £80.00 for it on offer in Currys PC World. Figgy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinach Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 +1. For the HP, Recently dumped two cannons cheap from some supermarket and worthless. Bought a HP 5524. Seems very good. YMMV. John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
station Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Kodak Hero series - best by far and the ink costs beat all others (apart from non genuine ink that eventually stuffs your print heads) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 (edited) Personally, I would not bother with photos on an inkjet. Just send them out to be done professionally, at your local photo shop and they'll print thm using chemical Process on photographic paper. Anythig else (unless you spend silly money on printers, inks and paper) will be inferior. If you will be printing mosly documents, get a laser printer - possibly a colour one. Edited April 18, 2013 by aris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
halfbee Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 Personally, I would not bother with photos on an inkjet. Just send them out to be done professionally, at your local photo shop and they'll print thm using chemical Odessa on photographic paper. Anythig else (unless you spend silly money on printers, inks and paper) will be inferior. If you will be printing mosly documents, get a laser printer - possibly a colour one. +1 I do exactly this and then run a B&W Samsung Laser printer with wifi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 I have a cheap cannon inkjet for kids school work which I successfully refill the cartridges, and a small canon asker printer B&W) for documents/letters which I successfully refill the toner. Lasers are great. Excellent print quality and FAST. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SakoQuad Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 looking for a colour printer, mainly to do photos. must be wireless and small and cheap.cartridge price also comes into consideration. what do you guys recommend? cheers Anything but a Canon! I bought one - brilliant prints but uses ink by the gallon. Every time it is switched on it goes through a cycle that pumps ink out of the cartridges. I have actually just had to replace a whole set of colour cartridges without having printed ONE piece of colour printing. A friend who does stuff professionally uses a Kodak for his drafts and reckons I should replace the Canon with a Kodak p.d.q. I am about to take his advice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorygall Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 I have a Kodak Hero 5.1 Good printing but I would never ever buy another one. Ink is supposed to be the cheapest. Rubbish! The cartridges may be cheaper but they only put about 5ml of ink in. Once empty you can't refill due to a chip. I have had the printer about a year and I have a bag full of empty cartridges. I don't even print a lot. You can now find cheaper versions at last. To be fair, Kodak did send me a new printer head when the last one dried out due to insufficient use. Now have cleaned that with stuff off Ebay and ready for the current one to block and will swap back again. Very disappointed to say the least. Bring back my old HP 940C. I too print pictures at Tesco. Do enough and they are only 5p each. You can't use your own printer for that. And don't forget if you print photos on your home printer the colours will fade / go pink after a year or so. I'm convinced that this generation will be the generation that loses its photos. How often do you hear of peoples PC crashing and everything lost including pictures. Back up everything and print those you want to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted April 18, 2013 Report Share Posted April 18, 2013 All of a sudden that printer which cost a tenner on offer doesn't look so cheap :-) You have to look the cost of ownership, not just the initial outlay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secretagentmole Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 We have the cheapo Kodak ESP, scanner, printer,card reader wireless too, damned good little machine and cheap to run as well! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 All the inkjets are expensive on ink, got to say that I've been very impressed with the photo printing quality of the Epson Stylus SX235W Need to go into the settings to get the best from it and use photo quality paper but results are very good. It is wireless capable, also does copying and scanning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craftycarper Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 make sure its a model thats compatible with choice stationary website, cartidges cheap as chips Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philm Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 make sure its a model thats compatible with choice stationary website, cartidges cheap as chips Used their ink for years on photo's got some on the wall and they haven't faded! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Poon Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 I have a Kodak printer quite cheap to buy and run , but I got this printer befor my house was filled with iPads and stuff so make sure is an air printer so that apple products if you have any can print tom them, it's different fom wireless printing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willxx Posted April 19, 2013 Report Share Posted April 19, 2013 Try Inkjets and toners: http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/ they usually have offers where you buy some cartridges (inkjet unfortunately not No 6's) but they then GIVE you a printer, I've had a couple and as long as you accept you are never going to be given a 'proper' freebie then they are good, domestically I have had 3, 1 HP colour laser - cost me £160 (ish) with set of toners which lasted me over 12 months, last time I had a Brother A3 wireless printer scanner unit, I've also had a Brother A4 wireless from them, all have been ok, colour laser toners were a bit pricey when I needed to replace so went with inkjet as I don't really print anything these days Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krugerandsmith Posted April 20, 2013 Report Share Posted April 20, 2013 +1. For the HP, Recently dumped two cannons cheap from some supermarket and worthless. Bought a HP 5524. Seems very good. YMMV. John. +2 Just replaced my c7200 photosmart with a 7520. Very pleased. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonno 357 Posted April 21, 2013 Report Share Posted April 21, 2013 Canon MP5350 and cheap ink to boot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny v Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 I had a photosmart printer which got used very rarely. I went to scan a document and it wouldn't work because it was out of ink?? New cartridges would have cost approx £35 from PC World. Went to Tesco and picked up an Epsom reduced from £150 to £39 with a set of cartridges. Better printer too as it is wireless. Seems cheaper to replace the printer than buy inks at full price??!! V Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
100milesaway Posted April 22, 2013 Report Share Posted April 22, 2013 I have just replaced my old printer ( Dell) which ate cartridges with a EpsonXP405, its brilliant you can buy the cartridges individually and the quality of print is fantastic. It will print onto transfer paper so you can do your own teashirt designs plus any number of extra things which being a dummy in the techo department i don't fully understand. The chap at the computer centre says everytime you use it switch it off because they are proggrammed to self clean too often and that in itself wastes loads of ink.. from Auntie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henry d Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 I have a Kodak ESP 3250 and I will pay you to come and take it away, heap of junk that goes through print cartridges like nothing on earth. 15 B&W and one colour sheets of A4 have been printed since the last cartridges were put in and this is the result... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted April 24, 2013 Report Share Posted April 24, 2013 (edited) Looks like the heads are jammed up. This is the problem with inkjets, if you don't use them regularly, the ink in the head dries up. Some manufacturers are better than others, but at the end of the day it's a liquid which is designed to dry quickly (when it hits paper), so it is inevitable. I'll re-iterate it - if you don't print often, get a laser. Particularly if you have no need for colour. If you need colour - then a colour laser. Yes your initial outlay will be more, but your overall cost of ownership will be much lower. If you need to print photos - go to a 1-HR photoshop like Tescos or Snappy Snaps, or Jessops if you can find one of them which is still open, or use an on-line service where you upload the photos, and they post them to you. I got my Canon laser (B&W) for £25 (£50 - with £25 cashback). I re-fill the toner cartidges myself for about a fiver which gives me another 6000 pages. Do the maths. Edited April 24, 2013 by aris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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