Recommend me a printer

[B3rni3]

Hey guys my old printer packed up the other day so I need a new one.

Basically I am looking for a printer that can print scan and photocopy and possibly print a3 colour. Network printing and all that lark is not really needed but if it comes with it I wont complain.

Ink needs to be seperate replacements ie one for black, blue, pink, yellow etc because I seem to use more of one colour than the others.

Budget would be around 200 gbp all in so printer and ink. I could stretch it a little but it would need to be an a4 + a3 printer.

 

[SuB]

From my experience you aint getting an A3 printer (worth having) for sub £200 bud

edit: especially not with ink/toner

 

[B3rni3]

From my experience you aint getting an A3 printer (worth having) for sub £200 bud

edit: especially not with ink/toner

Its only occasional a3 mainly a4 use. So a3 dosent have to be brilliant or anything.

 

[SuB]

it doesn't matter about the quality of the a3 it's the fact it's a3. A3 printers aint cheap, especially multi function ones matey

You need to effectively double your budget or cut some features. if you buy a crappy one, it's still gonna print crappy at A4 or A3

 

[B3rni3]

Ok then how about just a4 then any recommendations?

 

[jamesriley94]

Ok then how about just a4 then any recommendations?

Brothers are pretty good.

Some of the new HP ones too with all the online eprint services.

You need to make sure they have a different cartridge for each individual colour + black (most do these days, but worth double checking).

Also, avoid Canon.

 

[Mark3Max]

Brothers are pretty good.

Some of the new HP ones too with all the online eprint services.

You need to make sure they have a different cartridge for each individual colour + black (most do these days, but worth double checking).

Also, avoid Canon.

Hey james , why avoid Canon printers ?
That's what I have and was going to recommend .

 

[jamesriley94]

Hey james , why avoid Canon printers ?
That's what I have and was going to recommend .

They're marketed as having the lowest ink costs...but the cartridges are significantly smaller in capacity than pretty much all the others, which levels out, and for the price of refillable cartridges now, you can save a lot of money going for Brother or HP - I think Epson are meant to be good these days too.

Brother and Epson are more of the industrial business printers - probably faster per unit and more efficient with ink, whilst HP have a few more features and better support, like wifi printing etc... Of course some Brother models may have wifi printing, but I think HP are better for it than Brother are.

It depends what you want really.

I'd also advise having a look in Sainsburys or Tesco for one. They often have very good HPs for a significantly lower price than anywhere else - I got mine when it was on sale in Sainsburys for £65, when the same model was £130+ in PC World and online.

 

[Mark3Max]

They're marketed as having the lowest ink costs...but the cartridges are significantly smaller in capacity than pretty much all the others, which levels out, and for the price of refillable cartridges now, you can save a lot of money going for Brother or HP - I think Epson are meant to be good these days too.

Brother and Epson are more of the industrial business printers - probably faster per unit and more efficient with ink, whilst HP have a few more features and better support, like wifi printing etc... Of course some Brother models may have wifi printing, but I think HP are better for it than Brother are.

It depends what you want really.

I'd also advise having a look in Sainsburys or Tesco for one. They often have very good HPs for a significantly lower price than anywhere else - I got mine when it was on sale in Sainsburys for £65, when the same model was £130+ in PC World and online.

I have a Canon pixma mg5320 all in one , print , copy and scan. It does what I need but I really don't use it alot. My wife had an old HP printer ( I can't remember the model ) and it had the 02 cartridges that were absolutely tiny, probably 1/3 the size of my Canon cartridges.
I never really liked the print quality of HP printers , we've had a few.
I just got her a new Canon pixma mg5420 for $100 on sale , it's the same basic printer as mine.

I've never done the cartridge refill thing because most of the ink quality is pretty bad . But if you look online ,you can find a refill kit for quite a few different printers. I found refill kits for both of our Canon printers.

But like SuB said , A3 printers are going to cost you.

 

[Greenback]

I saw a video about ink cartridges and what's actually in them, though the cartridge has stayed the same size the actual foam that holds the ink has got a lot smaller
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/feb/23/printer-ink-cartridges-paying-more-getting-less

this is an example chances are if you took 1 of these apart today there would be less ink

 

[remember300]

I have a brother mfc-j58100W
Which does everything you ask including scan, a3 takes individual cartridges, has a feed for a4 scanning, can do both sides of the page, has wifi so can print wirelessly and has a USB and SD slot to take photos and print right from the card and can work as a photo copier. it can fax too but ive not used that feature.
Its under 200 too and i was more than happy with it just its rather large.