New printer suggestions

[Zebbedee]

out of my normal habitat in the computer section,,,,but we need a new printer so I am told anyway looking for suggestions as it’s a minefield main concern is cost of running eg ink cartridges etc we are looking for decent quality colour printer stroke scanner either hard wired or wireless laser or inkjet? Which is best we print out all spray sheets and invoices etc so does a sizeable amount of printing thanks

 

[upnortheast]

Try ringing Printerland, explain what you need & they will suggest options.
For a sizeable amount Laser is probably the way to go

 

[Netherfield]

@Storeman might know from a commercial sense, for a home printer either Canon TS6150 or HP Officejet Pro 6960 are well recommended by the computer press.

But you're right, printers are a minefield.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

Running costs basically boil down to how many pages you print per month and do you really need full colour or is it mainly mono (black/white).

Up front purchase cost isn’t really significant once you’ve printed 10,000 pages. It’s the cost of the consumables - toner and ink mainly - so make sure you know that before you buy a ‘cheap’ printer with bloody expensive ink or toner cartridges. Or follow the alternative approach..

....for a typical farm office / small office there’s a lot to be said for buying the cheapest A4 colour laser printer with the largest “starter” cartridges fitted. Then ahem “ethically recycle” it when its run out. Rinse and repeat.

 

[Timbo]

How much do you use it - do you need colour, or scanner facility ?

 

[Storeman]

As mentioned above, I would look at a colour laser printer. Won't be photo quality, but more than good enough for office type colour printing. The initial cost can be slightly more than inkjet, but the consumables for laser printing are usually cheaper than ink.

 

[JeepJeep]

I've a Epson XP312 Inkjet here. Got pressed into daily use when I started working at home.

Think it was £40 back in the day. Run it on Cheap Ink from Amazon 24 for £12ish I think the last lot were.

Does the Job Invoice Receipts etc.. Wireless so it sits out of the way.. Can email it stuff while I'm away and it'll print it so I dont forget.

If it dies it'll probably be replaced for similar as it's been no bother.

 

[Still Farming]

Wireless,laser,cheap ,scanner ,printer ,small etc also issues to look into?

 

[ollie989898]

How many users, what is mono and colour workload like?

If this is a serious office environment then I would consider leasing a machine and just paying a flat fee per page. konica minolta bizhub etc may suit an office containing multiple users- for a single user and a modest workload I have a Samsung colour laser machine. Bought from Amazon ages ago for less than £70. Replacement toner, however is £100 for a full set....

Many reasonable laser printers can do excellent quality prints if the correct paper is used and the machine is set to do it.

 

[___\0/___]

Worth looking at hp instant ink cartridges if you do a lot and a lot in colour. We used to spend a fortune on small half empty ink cartridges. £12.99 per month for 500 sheets which we are often within touching distance of. Different plans with less copies are available.

 

[Lincs Lass]

Been using epson for a few years but they dont like non genuine inks ,it gums up the nozzles and the genuines are mega ££ ,,you can buy a new printer with inks ,cheaper than the inks alone

 

[Av Gorritt]

I have a Brother laser HL4150 CDN colour . and an inkjet printer HP Officejet pro 6970 . I find the software for the Hp printer is a bit "iffy" but it is a good colour printer either hard wired or wireless , that you can send a doc to print from afar . BUT it's on HP 's ink service , and they just send ink as it's needed - well, before it's needed . The Brother laser colour is not as good as the HP but plenty good enough for commercial use , unless of course you need picture quality . I have only ever changed one cartridge in the Brother , and that was a refill from a spurious source , which it accepted with no whinging at all . If you only need one , and don't need picture , I would go for a laser every time . Much , much quicker too .

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

I’ve had laser printers since 1994 when I first got a LaserJet 4MP. Look it up. It had a nose bleeding speed of 4 pages per minute and as I recall it was 600 dpi. Ooooh.

Still it was built like a brick shithouse when HP still used to make good gear out of Boise, Idaho. Say that with a full-on yank accent

 

[ollie989898]

Mono laser printers are so cheap I wonder why people bother with inkjet.. even the toner is not that expensive given the number of prints you get out of them.

 

[Timbo]

Do your homework and think long and hard about how much you print, how much you need to print and what you think your operating costs are / year or so.

These cheap inkjets *might* be fine in a home occasional use domestic situation but they are so disposable & ink is ridiculous money. You get what you pay for.

Am now running an HP Colour laser MFP M477fdn having run an HP 2200 (mono laser) for almost a decade. It's a £300 machine, scanner duplex , networking and HP air print all bells+whistles etc.

Cartridges contain the fuser and are individual colours, not combined so you can replace which has run out. Non Genuine carts are £70 each (there are 5) but do 5000 sheets colour and 12000 black. So a set of carts isn't cheap, but per page it's virtually nothing and they last me 15-18months a time...

 

[nelson.h]

Mono laser printers are so cheap I wonder why people bother with inkjet.. even the toner is not that expensive given the number of prints you get out of them.

There may be some use cases. The last time I looked at the market, inkjet was better at printing photos which might be the main goal for some users. Professional photo printers are inkjet for instance. I read recently that the cost per page has been reduced significantly too, but I didn't research. On my last check years ago it was like you say, laser is generally best!

 

[ollie989898]

There may be some use cases. The last time I looked at the market, inkjet was better at printing photos which might be the main goal for some users. Professional photo printers are inkjet for instance. I read recently that the cost per page has been reduced significantly too, but I didn't research. On my last check years ago it was like you say, laser is generally best!

For mono rather than colour, lasers are so fast, cheap to buy and quiet I wouldn't bother with anything else.

 

[nelson.h]

Oops, somehow I missed the mono bit. You're right

 

[J B]

What I had in my farm office 12 years ago was an ink-jet colour printer/scanner/copier/fax for all the twiddly bits and a brother B&W laser for most of the simple black and white stuff.

 

[Pheasant Surprise]

What I had in my farm office 12 years ago was an ink-jet colour printer/scanner/copier/fax for all the twiddly bits and a brother B&W laser for most of the simple black and white stuff.

It’s a good idea to split the workload like that, also gives you some backup if you run out of ink/toner or one machine refuses to play.