HP Inkjet Printer Recommendation

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Need some help with recommendations on an HP all-in-one inkjet printer for home use. My requirements:

1) WiFi
2) Separate ink cartridges for colours
3) Reasonable cartridge replacement costs with good availability

Budget: Around R1500

I'm struggling to match up cartridge (and local prices) to printer models, so I'm not exactly which option to go for. Any suggestions and/or recommendations on this aspect.

Black Friday specials will obviously influence final model choice or stretch the budget ;)

NB: Only considering HP due to past experience with them. Had a faulty HP printer a few years back and recall a no-nonsense swap out approach when the thing went faulty. Assume it's still the same.
 
I would stay away from HP, their service levels are very poor, ink yields are not as advertised and customer care is non existent.

I purchased a HP printer last year from HIFi Corp, on their black Friday deal, however unfortunately the scanner did not install. HiFi corp did not have any more of that particular model, HP was not providing them with support / a replacement unit and the were being given a run around. After about 6 weeks, they decided to give me a better model - HP 6700.

The box mentions it includes HP 932 and 933 cartridges. The box does not mention set up cartridges. So anyway these cartridges gave me a yield of around 125 pages - Supposed to give like around 400 or so. The ink levels just mysteriously drop by like 10% at a time. I raised the query with HP, is the box being misrepresenting or is the printer faulty.

Standard answer I got was the cartridges are half full <--- but they don't explain why I only got about 125 pages. I kept on querying and then they ignored me.

Anyway I replaced the cartridges with the 932XL and 933XL - ive printed maybe around 60 pages, the yields claimed are like between 800-1000 pages. However, the estimated ink levels remaining are like 70%. Note, I am printing normal text docs and the odd picture - will definitely fall within the 5% coverage for their print yields.

HP does not respond to my queries on this. As soon as the inks run dry, the printer goes straight into the bin. I will not purchase a single HP product again due to their poor service.

I've previously always used HP printers and always printed more then the yields the cartridges estimated, never had trouble with the products, hence I stuck to the brand, but never again.
 
Totempole said:
If you want an Inkjet Printer that's cheap to run, go with Brother. The print quality isn't as good as it's competitors, but the ink is much cheaper. I have the DCP-J140W and have been using generic ink since day one.

The latest model is more expensive, but is apparently more efficient.
http://www.makro.co.za/computing-and-mobile/brother-j105-ink-benefit-3-in-1-colour-printer-273289EA

Their Ink Tanks are uncircuited, so generics are easy and cheap to produce.
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/sigh

really....
 
As has been mentioned some HP ink models have been problematic recently.

What functions do you require?
print/copy/scan/fax


You might have to expand you price bracket a lil.
 
I have the 8600 and I am happy so far. Only things that bug me so far are:

Ink level seems to be dropping quite quickly, but I am printing quite a lot of full colour and I don't really have a benchmark.

I use my Android Hot spot to connect to the net and the printer uses this network too. Works great until somebody wants to use it and I'm not there. This is easily fixed with a USB cable though.

Recently it has begun spitting out a blank page before actually printing. Not ideal when I wanted to print on the gloss paper which it just spat out. I think this has resolved itself with a software update though.
 
Something people do not realise when they purchase new printers (both laser and inkjet) is that the manufacturers of these printers always put in a"starter cartridge" which will finish quickly forcing you to go out and buy more. This is neither advertised or mentioned anywhere on the box. This seems to be industry practise.

In the R 2000 - R3000 range you could get a colour laser for that price...
 
CriticalConsumer said:
Something people do not realise when they purchase new printers (both laser and inkjet) is that the manufacturers of these printers always put in a"starter cartridge" which will finish quickly forcing you to go out and buy more. This is neither advertised or mentioned anywhere on the box. This seems to be industry practise.

In the R 2000 - R3000 range you could get a colour laser for that price...
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or a ricoh geljet sg 3110 sfwn(or similar)
 
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