Printer

[vmaxphil]

I need some help with printers, before I retired I printed out anything I needed at work, now I need to buy a printer, I only print about 6-10 pages a year with 9 months of not printing, so am I right that laser printers will work after that time were as inkjet will block and cause problems, thanks for your inputM

[mick miller]

Just any decent laser then. I bought a samsung laser eight years ago and it's still going strong. 

[Guest]

Do you have any family that has a printer.it wouldbe cost effective to do that .or any one you now that has one .just save to 

usb stick 

[johnphilip]

First find the cost of the ink cartrigdes for a printer you see . You can get the printer for maybe 40 quid and then you find the cartridges to replace are nearly the same . Yes they do tend to dry out . I got a cannon printer when i was doing lots of photography  , the quality was amazing on good photo paper . It had 5 cartridges and they cost a forutune. But if you can find a good company who do clone cartridges  then there is a good saving to be had .

Edited December 26, 2018 by johnphilip

[Dave at kelton]

That little printing does not justify the cost of a printer. If you save to USB stick local printers will doubtless do it for you or as has been said family or friends. If saved to a tablet or iPad print straight from that to your families printer if you are worried about security.

[Dougy]

I have one that i won in a raffle at work, you can have it if you cover postage. Its a Brother MFC. 

 

 

So yours for the postage. 

[snow white]

I would take up Dougy's offer its not worth buying one for that much printing i now the hard way.

[Jaymo]

19 minutes ago, Dave at kelton said:

That little printing does not justify the cost of a printer. If you save to USB stick local printers will doubtless do it for you or as has been said family or friends. If saved to a tablet or iPad print straight from that to your families printer if you are worried about security.

This..... much more cost effective

Edited December 26, 2018 by Jaymo

[grrclark]

Other than Dougy’s generous offer I would say not to bother, your local library will very likely have a printer service that you can use for pennies.  

If they don’t there will be other council offices that do or high street printers.  I’m quite sure that many local corner shops and post offices still have an ability to photcopy and print too, if I recall correctly they have a “Copy Point” sign in the window.

[mick miller]

The only caveat to the suggestion of using a library is that it assumes you live in a town or city. If you live in the backside of nowhere its more cost effective to simply have your own. Small laser printers are cheap as given the lifespan. 

[vmaxphil]

That's very kind of you dougy I have pm'ed you thanks

[oowee]

I have one of the new ink tank printers. They r very cheap to run. 1000's of pages for pennies in ink. Excellent and not expensive to buy.

[Westward]

I do very little printing now I'm retired, but I was in the computer business for all my working life and owned or used every type of printer. A modern inkjet will serve your needs - at least one like mine will. It's an Epson XP-315 which cost about £40. The cartridges have never dried out in the 2 years I've had it and I'm only just on my 2nd set of replacements. The thing scans, copies or prints, it's wireless enabled although my experience of wireless printing is that it's a great idea that doesn't work too well - at least not with Windows 10 it doesn't.

A laser would be pointless at a dozen pages per year. The  cartridge would last for at least 100 years...

[Lord Geordie]

Local library here does printing for around 15p per page iirc. I bought a canon printer with the head built into the cartridges. I tried a few Epson ones for cheap inks, but it was false economy as the heads block if not used regular. The canon has never let me down. But in the past I had to print off letters a few times at the library. Or as mentioned previously, perhaps family or friends could help. Also a good chance to have a catch up  

[JohnfromUK]

18 hours ago, Westward said:

I do very little printing now I'm retired, but I was in the computer business for all my working life and owned or used every type of printer. A modern inkjet will serve your needs - at least one like mine will. It's an Epson XP-315 which cost about £40. The cartridges have never dried out in the 2 years I've had it and I'm only just on my 2nd set of replacements. The thing scans, copies or prints, it's wireless enabled although my experience of wireless printing is that it's a great idea that doesn't work too well - at least not with Windows 10 it doesn't.

A laser would be pointless at a dozen pages per year. The  cartridge would last for at least 100 years...

+1 - My situation exactly, except that I have a cheap Hewlett Packard and was in the electronics business.  I do about 10 - 20 pages a month, so a little more - but still very low usage.  the scanner and photocopy facility also get used from time to time.  I think it was under £50.

Edited December 27, 2018 by JohnfromUK

[mick miller]

And a Lexmark laser is about £70. The difference being that you won't have a dried out ink cartridge in six months time when you come to use it again and then have to shell out another £60 to replace them. But, you pays your money... 

[Westward]

5 hours ago, mick miller said:

And a Lexmark laser is about £70. The difference being that you won't have a dried out ink cartridge in six months time when you come to use it again and then have to shell out another £60 to replace them. But, you pays your money... 

Did you read my post? Did you spot the bit where I mentioned that inks don't dry out these days?

Modern multi-function Inkjets have so many advantages for low volume home use that a single function mono laser intended for higher volume office use is simply the wrong choice.

Cheap lasers are very good at one thing and that one thing is hardly ever needed by any home users.

[Dougy]

Go on lads battle it out !!! 

Just checked the price of ink cartridges for the printer im posting to Phil, at around £20 a set plus a free set that came with it,  (i know there only small.capacity). He should have enough for quite some time.

 

[The Mighty Prawn]

2 minutes ago, Dougy said:

Go on lads battle it out !!! 

Just checked the price of ink cartridges for the printer im posting to Phil, at around £20 a set plus a free set that came with it,  (i know there only small.capacity). He should have enough for quite some time.

 

One of PW’s MVP’s Dougy, what a nice chap you are!

[billytheghillie]

I use a HP one, siged up for the ink deal, £2 a month. When ink gets low they sent you out replacements. cheap as chips.

[mick miller]

I bought my laser back in 2009, I bought a replacement cartridge in 2014. Do the math. I missed the comment about ink cartridges that don't dry out, although I somehow doubt one would last 5 years before being replaced, I could be wrong. To me a simple black and white printer that works when I turn it on has been brilliant, I don't need a fax, scanner, telephone etc. and the only colour I ever need has to be proof grade anyway, which you won't get from an inkjet.

Mind you, free is the magic number, good on you Dougy.

[Westward]

Hmmm. I ran small specialised digital print business until about 2 years ago. I had 4 different types of printer, each of which was there for a reason. One was an office type networked monochrome laser printer, far superior to a cheap Lexmark desktop laser but, like almost all mono lasers, text and block graphics were fine but it was poor at printing images such as black and white photos.

Multifunction inkjets may not produce your 'proof grade' colour output, but then they aren't designed to, however for photo printing,  particularly black and white, they beat a laser every time.