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[CaptainZok]

I have a Canon with seprate tanks and I can afford genuine ink in it

There's posh then.  
Must say I like canon printers myself.

[Ken T]

How about a colour laser ?. I have had a Xerox Phaser 6100DN (=Samsung CLP-510) for a couple of years. Its heavy (won't get nicked !), and just keeps going. Having a network card built in, I plug it into the home network and all computers on line can use it. Costs, well I bought a new black cartridge for about £35, but that's high capacity, and should do at least 3500 pages. Thing is you can often buy these for about £45 faulty, with plenty toner in them. A recent purchase gave me a machine with several new parts, and a set of 80% full toners for not a lot. There is also plenty info on how to service them, and how to reset the various counters that they use, and it is also possible to refill the cartridges and reset the integral counter chip.  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

How about a colour laser ?. I have had a Xerox Phaser 6100DN (=Samsung CLP-510) for a couple of years. Its heavy (won't get nicked !), and just keeps going. Having a network card built in, I plug it into the home network and all computers on line can use it. Costs, well I bought a new black cartridge for about £35, but that's high capacity, and should do at least 3500 pages. Thing is you can often buy these for about £45 faulty, with plenty toner in them. A recent purchase gave me a machine with several new parts, and a set of 80% full toners for not a lot. There is also plenty info on how to service them, and how to reset the various counters that they use, and it is also possible to refill the cartridges and reset the integral counter chip.  

Don"t get me started..I would love a colour laser..I have had my black and white laser for years.still going strong and just bought an original toner for it for £3..bargain its a Brother..

[Nickbat]

I have a Canon Pixma IP1500 and get my compatible cartridges from http://www.concita.co.uk.  

Mind you, there only half a mile away, so I don't pay P&P. Still cheap as chips IMHO. For school work you don't need OEM cartridges, again IMHO.

[Ken T]

I like machines that are designed for office use, cause they tend to be built to last. I got my daughter a 2nd hand HP laserjet 4 (?) a few years ago and its still going, and they haven't put in any toner yet. The 6100 is nice; occasionally you see faulty ones come up, like a recent one that complained about the waste bucket full. That is a known fault with them, the sensor sometimes goes faulty, and you can bypass it easily. Only trouble is they are very heavy, and personal pickup is the only real option. However it also means that the price is often cheap, and if its close to you then its a bargain !!!  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

I like machines that are designed for office use, cause they tend to be built to last. I got my daughter a 2nd hand HP laserjet 4 (?) a few years ago and its still going, and they haven't put in any toner yet. The 6100 is nice; occasionally you see faulty ones come up, like a recent one that complained about the waste bucket full. That is a known fault with them, the sensor sometimes goes faulty, and you can bypass it easily. Only trouble is they are very heavy, and personal pickup is the only real option. However it also means that the price is often cheap, and if its close to you then its a bargain !!!  

Had one of them years ago..Great printer..

[Bo Bo]

I gave up with my home printers clogging up.

If I want anything printed I email it to myself at work & print it off there  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

I gave up with my home printers clogging up.

If I want anything printed I email it to myself at work & print it off there  

Agree..I told her to put it on a memory stick and take it to school..

NO, I want to be able to print it out myself,,(Along with pictures of Mc.fLY I added) That didnt go down well..She is female you cant win..

[Markjay]

How about a colour laser ?. I have had a Xerox Phaser 6100DN (=Samsung CLP-510) for a couple of years. Its heavy (won't get nicked !), and just keeps going. Having a network card built in, I plug it into the home network and all computers on line can use it. Costs, well I bought a new black cartridge for about £35, but that's high capacity, and should do at least 3500 pages. Thing is you can often buy these for about £45 faulty, with plenty toner in them. A recent purchase gave me a machine with several new parts, and a set of 80% full toners for not a lot. There is also plenty info on how to service them, and how to reset the various counters that they use, and it is also possible to refill the cartridges and reset the integral counter chip.  

Don"t get me started..I would love a colour laser..I have had my black and white laser for years.still going strong and just bought an original toner for it for £3..bargain its a Brother..

I have a colour laser printer in the office which I decommissioned simply because the cost of cartridges was prohibitive even for business use, not to mention personal use, and they come in sets of four... that particular printer is an Epson and each of the four cartridges costs around £80+VAT, so for the cost of replacing a set of cartridges you could buy an early M-reg Omega.... smaller consumer laser printers use cheaper cartridges but it is still quite expensive. If you have the space for it, the best setup in my opinion is two printers, a basic monochrome laser for all day-to-day prints (the running co0sts of monochrome laser can't be beaten), and a low-cost colour inkjet next to it for when you do actually need colour. This is what I now have both at home and at the office...

[Martin_1962]

I have a Canon with seprate tanks and I can afford genuine ink in it

There's posh then.  
Must say I like canon printers myself.

No I am not rich - just that buying cartridges on the internet and that you replace just the empties means it doen't cost much more than an Epson on cheap ink. (Which fried its print head )

[Lordmpl]

I just bought a colour laser from ebay, cost £23.55, got the 4 colour toners from there too £36.00 for all 4, that will keep me going for a year...

Other than that have a look on www.ebuyer.co.uk , they have cheap printers and ink.

I had a Cannon before this laser, the printer was £22.00 , the ink cartridges ar only £3.95 each, did me fine for 2 years.

Cheers, Mark.  

[markrl]

An Epsom engineer told me that the way to avoid the print headed clogging up using non proprietary cartridges is every 4th replacement use a genuine one. This way the detergents Epsom use in their superior (but very expensive) cartridges will clean out the print head.

[Marks DTM Calib]

An Epsom engineer told me that the way to avoid the print headed clogging up using non proprietary cartridges is every 4th replacement use a genuine one. This way the detergents Epsom use in their superior (but very expensive) cartridges will clean out the print head.

I have an Epsom and have always used genuine inks......and it still clogs occasionaly.

[Jimbob]

I've yet to have an epson that didnt block, especially if you dont use them an awful lot.
I too have a laser for mono and an inkjet for colour / photos

Ive hate to say it, but have moved to HP, which I can't fault
Easy to use, economical and reliable.
The ink may be a little more, but I think all in all cheaper to run as I dont waste time and ink printing duplicates to try and get a decent copy.

I do stick to genuine ink, these things can be intermittant enough with out adding cheap ink to the occasion.
When I print a photo, I do want the best possible output an colour match.

Tend to get my ink from www.mymemory.co.uk or www.mx2.co.uk

[Golfbuddy]

Right then Spongebob. All you need to do is to buy a cheap black and white printer and some of these.