Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
I'm in the market for a new printer after my venerable Canon S900 ground to a halt over the summer after two decades of sterling service. As I tend to print a fair bit (manuscripts, scanned documents, the occasional homemade greetings card) a printer with ink tanks and aimed at the home office / small business seems to be the logical way to go.
1) Budget is somewhere between £150 - £200, but I can stretch it a little at the upper end if need be
2) Integrated scanner is not necessary, as I have a separate flatbed (Canon Lide 220)
3) Needs to handle different paper sizes (A6 to A4 plus custom sizes if possible) and weights - from ordinary printer paper through to fairly sturdy art paper or card stock
4) Ideally compatible with both my laptops - a Lenovo running Win 10 and a Sony running Vista. The latter has most of my heavyweight image editing software on it, as well as most of my word processing stuff, most of which won't run on the machine with the newer OS.
The three options that fit the bill the best (with the odd compromise) are:
1) Epson ET-1810 (basic tank printer, no scanner, a "ronseal" piece of kit with no frills, gets good reviews, compatible with both laptops)
2) Epson ET-2850 (mid-range tank printer, includes scanner, compatible with both laptops but bigger than and weighs twice as much as the ET-1810)
3) Canon G1520 (cheapest option, no scanner, only compatible with the Win 10 laptop but decent print quality according to reviews)
Would love to know what the Great CC Hive Mind thinks about these. Or any other printers that I should consider.
1) Budget is somewhere between £150 - £200, but I can stretch it a little at the upper end if need be
2) Integrated scanner is not necessary, as I have a separate flatbed (Canon Lide 220)
3) Needs to handle different paper sizes (A6 to A4 plus custom sizes if possible) and weights - from ordinary printer paper through to fairly sturdy art paper or card stock
4) Ideally compatible with both my laptops - a Lenovo running Win 10 and a Sony running Vista. The latter has most of my heavyweight image editing software on it, as well as most of my word processing stuff, most of which won't run on the machine with the newer OS.
The three options that fit the bill the best (with the odd compromise) are:
1) Epson ET-1810 (basic tank printer, no scanner, a "ronseal" piece of kit with no frills, gets good reviews, compatible with both laptops)
2) Epson ET-2850 (mid-range tank printer, includes scanner, compatible with both laptops but bigger than and weighs twice as much as the ET-1810)
3) Canon G1520 (cheapest option, no scanner, only compatible with the Win 10 laptop but decent print quality according to reviews)
Would love to know what the Great CC Hive Mind thinks about these. Or any other printers that I should consider.