Budget printers at Morrisons

i pay £1 per cartridge for my epson.

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

i pay £1 per cartridge for my epson.

89p a cart for my R200 from http://www.ukdvdr.co.uk/

The price of Lexmark and HP carts is unreal.

tell me about it, thats why they give there printers away for free.

[Richie]

My mum & dad just gave me there old printer for my kids, It's a Dell, but uses the same cartrages as my Lexmark... so thank you folks... Luckery the stationay store at work stocks my cartriges as My printer at work is the same...

what are the chances of that happen'g

Originally Posted by kwak zzr

i buy epson becasue you need a small loan to buy the ink for all the others.

I've found Epson to be the worst printers for ink. I've owned two now, the last being the top-of-the-range R800. Both were complete sh!t, and I'm never, ever buying Epson again. They drink ink at about 10 times the rate of any other make of printer, and a full set of Epson cartridges for the R800 is about £90. They go through constant cleaning cycles, which can drain an entire ink cartridge in days. Epsons are also very prone to blocked ink nozzles and attempting to clean these drains more of your expensive ink. In the end, I took the R800 to the tip (£250 down the drain) and bought a Canon IP4300 for about a quarter of the price. The Canon sips ink and is a far nicer printer in almost every way.

I've also owned a couple of HP printers which weren't bad, but the cartridges can get clogged up quite easily. There's also a new Kodak range which claim to use very cheap ink. I'll probably stick to Canon in future as the IP4300 is so good. Nothing will persuade me to buy another Epson though.

[Viney]

Originally Posted by wyrdness

I've found Epson to be the worst printers for ink. I've owned two now, the last being the top-of-the-range R800. Both were complete sh!t, and I'm never, ever buying Epson again. They drink ink at about 10 times the rate of any other make of printer, and a full set of Epson cartridges for the R800 is about £90. They go through constant cleaning cycles, which can drain an entire ink cartridge in days. Epsons are also very prone to blocked ink nozzles and attempting to clean these drains more of your expensive ink. In the end, I took the R800 to the tip (£250 down the drain) and bought a Canon IP4300 for about a quarter of the price. The Canon sips ink and is a far nicer printer in almost every way.

I've also owned a couple of HP printers which weren't bad, but the cartridges can get clogged up quite easily. There's also a new Kodak range which claim to use very cheap ink. I'll probably stick to Canon in future as the IP4300 is so good. Nothing will persuade me to buy another Epson though.

Hmmm thats a good post. Im looking at buying an all in one printer. Although im in the print game, i know very little about home printers (I have 3 Xerox 6060 colour pinters for my job) I was looking at Epson, due to the fact they use seperate inks for all the colours.

[northwind]

About 10 years ago, my dad stole us a very nice HP printer from his office, so I use that Nothing like setting a positive example for your kids.

Originally Posted by Viney

I was looking at Epson, due to the fact they use seperate inks for all the colours.

I have an old Canon S600 that uses separate carts for separate colours never had a problem.