Hi everyone. This time last year I was looking to replace my not-economic-to-repair HP 1015 laser printer with a mono laser MFP. That never happened because a friend lent me her old Samsung ML-1510, which is still chuntering along with the same cartridge it came with.
- Optical character recognition, preferably by scanning to PDF
- "Transmissive" scanning capability for slides (or am I going to have to get a separate device for this?)
- Small footprint (<500mm wide x 360mm deep x 260mm high)
- Mac and PC compatible
- Good photo reproduction
- Reasonable consumable costs
- Wi-Fi networking would be nice to have, but not as important as other features
- Cannon MP560
- Epson Stylus SX515W
- Kodak ESP 3250 or 5250
- HP Photosmart C4680
- Lexmark 305
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Kodak
We have Kodak ESP7's - primarily for photo printing and the occasional scan. About £120 to buy.
Great machines. Print quality is excellent, simple to use, and best of all the ink is seriously cheap - £7 for black, £12 for colour.
The speed is reasonable, all in all if its an "add on" to a laser its the ideal machine. Not sure what it measures.
Personally I would only ever look at HP or Brother
Have a look at the Brother options. They are more robust than most of the others and are better engineered. Either that or HP. I wouldn't touch Epson with a barge pole; I had one once and it was a load of rubbish. Lexmark used to have a reputation for low printer cost/high ink cost but I don't know whether this is still so.
p.s. WHATEVER you do, if you are going to be doing photographs make sure you buy one with individual ink cartridges, not all-in-one colour.
What about your recent investigation...
... https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/199221
Sort of as a result of this I bought the Brother MFC-490CW. Hasn't let me down yet. Ink seems expensive but isn't that the case for all of them? I'm reluctant to buy anything but manufacturer's own ink as I think failing to do this in the past may have led to problems.
Cannon MX 7600
It is excellent. I have had this for two years. It was also Which Best Buy.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Canon-PIXMA-MX7600-Function-Printer/dp/B00133TG3K