Printer choice - quality/speed/consumable costs - any recommendations?

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Having just spent £100 on 3 ink cartridges for my HP 7500 series, can anyone give a good recommendation of a printer that has both quality, speed and reasonable consumable costs. My current printer is only worth £50 if that so getting a little daft that I'm spending say £125 per set of 4 cartridges. I am supposed to get about 1500 to 1700 pages from that though - although never counted (obviously)!

Thanks in advance.

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By Moonbeam
07th Jun 2012 14:43

Consumable costs are the problem

As printer costs have got cheaper over the years, consumable costs seem to have increased at the same rate. I've always had HP printers, and toner never seems to cost less than £100 plus VAT for around 3,000 pages.

So much depends on how much printing you plan to do, but consumable costs are the main area to look at, when comparing printers.

 

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By Tonykelly
07th Jun 2012 17:05

can help you

try kyocheera

 

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By darrenwilliams
07th Jun 2012 17:32

Are you using a colour printer? inkjet? or laser?

 

I used to print via a lexmark colour laser, which was really really expensive to run, when compared to my previous black/white brother laser. Used inkjets to print as well very early on, when my usage was very low but still very expensive to run and very slow.

 

I have now gone back to a black/white laser, brother HL5240, which was cheap to buy, cheap to run and fast. A couple of years old now but still great.

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By morgani
07th Jun 2012 17:56

I have 2 dell 1320cn printers. One I even bought second hand as I liked the first. Compatible toners are available from stinky ink. All colours for 2000 pages is around £50 incl VAT. Black only is £14 incl VAT. The compatible toners are that good that dell no longer make the printer because of this. Therefore you would need to find a second hand 1.

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By Jimess
07th Jun 2012 18:03

Print through photocopier

A few years ago we routed all our printing through the photocopier.  Photocopier lease around £150 per quarter plus VAT. We have just renegotiated the contract and current average copy costs depending on usage between £40 to £80 per month.  We were getting through several toners per month plus drums every six months or so - driving everything through the photocopier has given us a massive saving.  It does mean that if you are not in the same room as the copier you have to walk to collect your paperwork, but you can save the printing in your own "bin" and just go and push the print button when you are ready. 

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By DMGbus
08th Jun 2012 08:44

Amazon or Choice Stationery

If your printer is a HP OfficeJet Pro L7500  then  then  th

then do an internet search for cartridges.

One supplier has HP original cartridges for the L7500  priced between £15.58 and £30.72 each (and free delivery) so £100 for three is a little high.   

Suggested vendor websites are: Choice Stationery and Amazon.

For my own HP printer I've just ordered 9 original HP ink jet cartridges from Choice stationery for a little under £55.

Sometimes WHSmith have bargains to be had - but their range of cartridges was limited when I looked at their website earlier this week.

 

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