Need New Printer - Which Brands Have Well Priced Ink?

[ReganAndCarter]

I'm on the lookout for a new printer/copier/scanner for light home use - just something reasonably basic and compact. Which brands/models have the best priced inks - mainly black if that makes any difference?

Thanks for any advice.

 

[chalkywhite]

Hi, I bought an HP Envy 5000 series during lockdown and find their £1.99 per month for up to 50 sheets ink hire scheme works very well. HP know when your ink is about to run out, and send new ink automatically.

 

[EddieM]

I'm on the lookout for a new printer/copier/scanner for light home use - just something reasonably basic and compact. Which brands/models have the best priced inks - mainly black if that makes any difference?

Thanks for any advice.

Cheaper to chuck and replace sadly.

 

[bernardgreen]

The feature I like on my HP Envy 5532 is that the "print head" is in the 301 cartridge and not part of the printer.

Never clog ups and thus no ink is ever wasted cleaning a print head that is part of the printer

 

[Alec_t]

Last time I looked, the price of a black ink cartridge was nearly as much as the cost of a printer. I don't do a lot of printing and got fed up with clogged nozzles on inkjet printers. For the last year or so I've been using a mono laser printer. So far I've had ~360 typical A4 printed pages out of the toner cartridge that came with the printer.

 

[johnny2007]

Canon

 

[EddieM]

Canon

Can get a new Canon printer for £25.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

With poxy home learning we've been blasting through ink like nobodies business lately, the wife's crappy cheapy HP fella has ink costing £11 for the black and bit more for the colour, not that I've counted but you're supposed to get about 100 odd sheets from a cartridge, we do everything on draft so are supposed to get a bit more.

 

[JohnD]

get a Laser printer.

 

[johnny2007]

Can get a new Canon printer for £25.

I pay 10 cartridges £7.
I have an mx890 which makes coffee as well i think

 

[whistler]

Over the years I've gone through just about every brand of inkjet printer. Ink price is a rip off and after not very much use they dry up and end up in the skip. Then I decided to buy a laser printer, cost about £190. Had it about three years now, prints perfectly every time. Yes the replacement toners are expensive but they print thousands of sheets and never dry up. I would never buy an inkjet again.

 

[delmel]

Hi, I bought an HP Envy 5000 series during lockdown and find their £1.99 per month for up to 50 sheets ink hire scheme works very well. HP know when your ink is about to run out, and send new ink automatically.

I have exactly the same and this works really well and is the best option for someone you can choose the ammount of prints you require so if 50 isnt enough go for the next package up . I would 100 percent recommend this.

 

[JohnD]

Get a laser printer FFS

 

[mr_chaela]

Got to side with others here. Get a laser

Someone mentioned £11 for 100 prints
My laser cartridges cost £60 for 7500 prints

As Dacia cars say - You do the maths
and it never dries up.

 

[JohnD]

Mine are much cheaper to run because I chose a brand used in many offices.

From time to time an office throws out their stock of date-expired toner and drums, and the man who clears the stationery cupboard puts them on ebay. Sometimes they buy a new load of printers and chuck out still-current stock. I buy them for next to nothing.

These small office machines have a life expectancy of hundreds of thousands of pages, because they are designed to service a workgroup of office workers, or sometimes just a manager's office for privacy.

The smallest size cartridge for mine is rated at 3,500 pages, and the largest at 12,000

On ebay I can pay £5 to £30

The smallest one is ample for home use.

Colour ones are dearer and more complicated, and only good enough for colour charts and text, so I use mono.