What printer?

[Nobbylad]

Need a new colour printer and thinking about colour laser instead of ink. Saw one recently but can't remember the make which looked pretty good on toner use vs. the ink on normal inkjets.

With the price of replacement ink cartridges, it's almost cheaper to buy a new printer everytime the ink runs out!

Anyway, printer will be used for bog standard homework/documents that don't require massive dpi, however the odd photo may also be included.

Other bonus features would be scanning/copying and bluetooth/wireless connectivity.

Oh...and cheap as chips obviously!

[Balky001]

I just got a Samsung CLP 320. £75 from Amazon. Very pleased with it. When it runs out if ink it's a toss up between getting the cartridges and getting a new one still but my inkjet used to clog up if not used regularly which made it more expensive than the laser.

[andrewsmith]

lazer if you do a silly amount of printing

[Nobbylad]

Don't do a silly amount of printing, but looking for something that is relatively low cost per page, good quality and preferably WiFi.

We have a Dell All-in-One 944 at the moment, which does a reasonable job of scanning, copying and printing. Ink is about £20 a cartridge (1 x black, 1 x colour), but I'm struggling to get it working with Win7, even using Visa drivers (no Win7 drivers available).

[andrewsmith]

I would look at a networked unit if you can plug it into your Wifi router they're a tad cheaper.

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

Don't do a silly amount of printing, but looking for something that is relatively low cost per page, good quality and preferably WiFi.

We have a Dell All-in-One 944 at the moment, which does a reasonable job of scanning, copying and printing. Ink is about £20 a cartridge (1 x black, 1 x colour), but I'm struggling to get it working with Win7, even using Visa drivers (no Win7 drivers available).

Why do you need wifi? you move your printer around a lot?

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Why do you need wifi? you move your printer around a lot?

It's useful if your printer is in a different room from your computer. I always print wirelessly.

[Nobbylad]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

Why do you need wifi? you move your printer around a lot?

Originally Posted by wyrdness

It's useful if your printer is in a different room from your computer. I always print wirelessly.

So everyone in the house can print from their p.c's/netbooks/laptops.

There's probably a canny way of using Windows sharing to allow everyone to use the printer, but that probably relies on the main p.c. being on where the printer is (which isn't always the case).

[andrewsmith]

Is your router near to your printer?

You can always wire it into it give it a fixed IP (ending 99 or something very high).
Set the print driver to network mode and do it that way.

My works printer is networked (i don't know why TBH as I'm the only user) and has a static IP.
The theory always goes that you could send something to home/ work to print off

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

It's useful if your printer is in a different room from your computer. I always print wirelessly.

Originally Posted by Nobbylad

So everyone in the house can print from their p.c's/netbooks/laptops.

There's probably a canny way of using Windows sharing to allow everyone to use the printer, but that probably relies on the main p.c. being on where the printer is (which isn't always the case).

Most printers have wired-LAN these days, so as long as the printer is close enough to plug into your router it doesn't need to have its own wifi

Was only sanity checking as everyone seems to think that everything needs to be wireless these days, when a wired connection is STILL the best option in most cases.