The joy of owning a printer

[Salad Dodger]

We have an Epson SX425 combined printer/copier/scanner. It worked pretty well in the past - my wife used to print off quite a lot of "stuff" for school - and if you are not too fussy about exact colour printing, then cheapo print cartridges work pretty well.

Over the summer, the printer went into storage whilst we prepared to move house. When we had moved in, and I needed to print some documents, I had an entertaining evening persuading it to work once again. Basically, the ink had dried up in the inkjet/printer head area, and a fair bit of grumbling ensued......(from me, not the printer!) I did eventually get it functioning again, and it's been behaving itself since then.

 

[Mojonaut]

Owned several different makes of ink jets over the years and they've all suffered from blocked jets needing excessive cleaning cycles wasted ink etc.

In desperation I bought a cheap HP colour laser, it's more bulky and takes a minute to warm up for the first print, but now would never use anything else.

No cleaning of heads and wasted ink, prints quickly you just switch it on and it works even if it hasn't been used for days.
Also resulting prints don't run if the paper gets wet, makes it great for printing out route maps to scrunch up and carry with you while out riding.

HP toner prices looked scary, but third party ones are much cheaper and work fine but they last for ages anyway.

 

[swee'pea99]

My HP Laserjet 4V is fifteen years old and currently at 139,000 pages, without any maintenance.

They used to say that LJ4s and cockroaches were the only things that would survive a nuclear holocaust.

I have a more compact HP laser - a 1020, which I got off ebay for a fiver and has worked faultlessly for three years, running on compatible toners that cost about approx bugger all and do a squillion high quality copies. Unless you really really need colour, you're bonkers to use anything other than an old laser printer. HPs are good. Some Brothers too, if you check out old reviews (I've an old HL1420 up in the attic that must be a decade old now, still bulletproof, and cheap as chips to run.)

 

[Acyclo]

I have a more compact HP laser - a 1020, which I got off ebay for a fiver and has worked faultlessly for three years, running on compatible toners that cost about approx bugger all and do a squillion high quality copies.

Yes, I think that's the way to go. Get something tough but heavy locally.

 

[Roadrider48]

Didn't Kodak only put the film bit to sleep?

It was just that I heard they had gone bust. Maybe I'm wrong.

 

[MontyVeda]

It was just that I heard they had gone bust. Maybe I'm wrong.

news to me.

 

[Roadrider48]

A

news to me.

As I said, maybe I am wrong. From your reaction I probably am.

 

[Tyke]

[QUOTE 2777426, member: 9609"]I had a lot of hasstle the other week with my 'Brother' Colour Laser Printer. Even though I have not printed anything in colour for months - it suddenly announced the other day that it could not print me a letter in "Black" as it had ran out of Yellow Toner.... What a useless piece of crap

And this printer does have a separate black toner that is 90% full.[/quote]
This may be a Brother thing, I had the same problem on an Inkjet very poor idea when the Black is still full, I now keep a spare set of inks so not a problem and not a great outlay if you use compatible ink. Otherwise I think it`s a great little printer.

 

[XRHYSX]

I've got a wireless hp3050 printer/ copier /scanner
set up to print from mine and the wifes laptop, we use refilled XL cartridges £14 to refill each but lasts us months and we do alot of printing including photos

 

[shortone]

We use a Samsung CLP 365W cheap and cheerfull colour laser WIFI printer.
Easy to set up and so far has been playing nice.
Its connected to the wifi network in the house rather than a seperate PC or laptop so everyone can use it hasstle free.

 

[betty swollocks]

Probably nsfw

 

[andytheflyer]

We use a Samsung CLP 365W cheap and cheerfull colour laser WIFI printer.
Easy to set up and so far has been playing nice.
Its connected to the wifi network in the house rather than a seperate PC or laptop so everyone can use it hasstle free.

Glad you managed it! I had a CLP315 and did manage to get it to talk via a printer server, and then a CLP320, but it's such hard work to set up - and I haven't been able to get it to connect wirelessly under Windows 8 at all......

 

[lay]

Does anybody have a printer that actually does what it says on the tin??

[rant]

I have an HP C4480 and once again it is pants.

Oh and I haven't even mentioned the rip off cartridge prices yet...

Bah....life is to short....now where is my pen and paper....no wait out of paper 'cos the dam printer chewed it up.

Argggh!

[/rant]

And I was just about to say is it an HP, oh and the cost of the cartridges.....

 

[Leedsbusdriver]

HP 1050A for the past 2 years.Given me faultless service,and a set of ink cartridges are £15 on Ebay.

 

[Biker Joe]

Probably nsfw