New printer recommendations

[robinbanks]

Cheaper to buy a new inkjet printer than ink refills!

The cartridges in the new printer arent as full as the refills

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

The cartridges in the new printer arent as full as the refills

That is usually true of the lasers too.

 

[morqthana]

A used ex-office, commercial laser printer, will last forever, and parts will likewise remain available, because of the number produced.

This is a longer term strategy, not a lot of use for people who need a printer now, but start analysing eBay posts for people selling cartridges, drums, belts, etc for obsolete "office grade" printers. You may detect patterns of availability showing that an old printer can be kept running at low cost. Throw in the occasional purchase of another printer when they crop up to scavenge for spares, and you can keep going for years. I used to have a laser printer which in today's money would probably be about £10K. Cost me nothing like that to get started. Toner cartridges? Less than a tenth of the price they were when the printer was current.
OPC belts? Also cheap, or if someone's selling a whole printer, go and look and inspect prints done there and then for quality. And so it goes on.

 

[morqthana]

Before buying any printer, check out the maker here https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page for any history of underhand practices.

 

[flameport]

It’s only a few, it’s the ones I get emailed.

Why do you need to print any invoices at all?

 

[Justin Passing]

I bought a £250 Brother all in one laser printer.
A set of toners is £250
I bought a non-Brother set. They didn't work. It was too late to send them back.
The printer recognises they were not Brother so it's now a brick.
I could get Brother's official service contractor person round, if I had a new set of toners, who says he could get it going. He says they wouldn't have to be Brother, but some clone inks don't even fit.

One tip, if you want to go the clone ink route, NEVER update the printer's software. Doing that made it stop.
Another Brother? No chance.

Cheap Canon inkjets have been ok on clone ink, but the last one had a print counter. It's fake, it declares the Waste Ink Tank full so that's it, no more printing, making another brick. People have stripped them down and cleaned out the WIT, which doesn't work.

 

[spile]

Mono - I don’t think you can beat a laser
Colour - I love the Epson Ecotank
We have both.

 

[Dec27]

Why do you need to print any invoices at all?

For my accounts. I’m old school.