Which Al in one printer for light home usage?

[blue-eye-boy]

Hey all, just a quick question.

My parents are retiring this month. My mother have a laptop, and gets adsl tomorrow (Friday), for skype, facebook, etc. She need a printer-scanner-copier-fax to use at home too, it will be for light usage. I have a HP 6500 at home, which serves me well, but I think there must be newer models out now.

What would you guys suggest, which is not too expensive, and also which ink cartridges will be economical too.

Thanks

 

[DA-LION-619]

I bought a Cannon from Kalahari, it was like R300, not sure on the economical printing but it was cheap.

 

[Car_B_OM]

If your parents are only going to be printing occasionally, inkjet is not the way to go. If you don't use an ink cartridge often (at least twice a week), the ink dries up and the cartridge becomes useless. Infrequent use also means that the printer runs through useless cleaning cycles before every print, using up a crap ton of ink in the process. Since that stuff it more expensive than Dom Perignon per millilitre, you don't want to waste it.

You'll want to get a small multi-function laser printer - toner cartridges require less maintenance, have a lower cost per page and don't dry up (good for printing occasionally). Brother has an awesome range of small, colour MFPs for relatively cheap. Or you can have a look at the Samsung CLP or CLX range. If you don't want to fuss with replacing drum units (which you will definitely have to do with the Brother machines), have a look at HP or Canon's smaller laser printers.

If you do decide to go for inkjet, always remember that the cheaper the printer, the more expensive the ink. Don't buy anything that uses a tri-colour cartridge (all three colours in one cartridge), you'll be chucking money away. Rather go for individual ink cartridges for each colour. The best option here is anything in the Canon PIXMA range or the new Brother InkBenefit printers. Slightly higher page yields for a little less money.

 

[hsmnel]

Canons are cheap until your first cartridge replacement. Total rip-off. Had an Canon pixma, Epson and now on an HP. The HP is the best value as the cartridges are way cheaper than any of the other models.

 

[LPCPT]

HP 3 series, best value for money. I have an HP 3550 (paid about R1.2K) and it is great. Wireless, and ink not so expensive about R160 per cartridge (on specials still cheaper). Prints very good quality. The cheapies is just a waste of money

 

[creeper]

Hey all, just a quick question.

My parents are retiring this month. My mother have a laptop, and gets adsl tomorrow (Friday), for skype, facebook, etc. She need a printer-scanner-copier-fax to use at home too, it will be for light usage. I have a HP 6500 at home, which serves me well, but I think there must be newer models out now.

What would you guys suggest, which is not too expensive, and also which ink cartridges will be economical too.

Thanks

PM me. I have the same HP6500 that I want to sell. My SO needed to upgrade to an A3 printer, so it is taking up space. I will throw in 3 new cartridges for free to sweeten the deal.

 

[Pearson6]

Creeper is it a ink advantage printer?

 

[falcon786]

If you do decide to go for inkjet, always remember that the cheaper the printer, the more expensive the ink.

Unfortunately that is true for most printers.

Canons are cheap until your first cartridge replacement. Total rip-off. Had an Canon pixma, Epson and now on an HP. The HP is the best value as the cartridges are way cheaper than any of the other models.

I can add Lexmark to that list for ridiculously expensive ink that needs to be replaced often.After long drawn out research I also settled on HP because they offer the best cost per page with the 8000 and 6000 series printers.

PM me. I have the same HP6500 that I want to sell. My SO needed to upgrade to an A3 printer, so it is taking up space. I will throw in 3 new cartridges for free to sweeten the deal.

Great printers until now,great cost per page,reliable etc...

 

[LCBXX]

Was a big fan of HP's home range, especially since you can only buy the cartridge bladders separately when empty, as opposed to the whole printhead and bladder setup.

That said, these type of printers refuse to print when one of the colours is finished as it cannot prime/lubricate the head. Also, if the printhead fails, new printer. I bought a Canon PIXMA MX474 4-in-1 printer for R920 at Takealot (you get the 300 and 200 range as well for cheaper) that still uses the old-skool 3-in-1 colour cartridge/printead and black cartridge/printhead setup. Cartridges are around R300 for the XL versions (R100 less for standard) if you shop a bit and you can still print either colour or black/white if one of the cartridges is empty, which is big plus. Refill places like Inkey readily stock refurbished cartridges for 40% less if you want to go that route. The printer does not complain when you use those.

 

[creeper]

Creeper is it a ink advantage printer?

Don't think so. It is: http://support.hp.com/us-en/product/HP-Officejet-6500-All-in-One-Printer-series---E7/3795309/model/3795393/ model. Exactly this model. The 6500A came with AirPrint.

 

[falcon786]

Was a big fan of HP's home range, especially since you can only buy the cartridge bladders separately when empty, as opposed to the whole printhead and bladder setup.

That said, these type of printers refuse to print when one of the colours is finished as it cannot prime/lubricate the head. Also, if the printhead fails, new printer. I bought a Canon PIXMA MX474 4-in-1 printer for R920 at Takealot (you get the 300 and 200 range as well for cheaper) that still uses the old-skool 3-in-1 colour cartridge/printead and black cartridge/printhead setup. Cartridges are around R300 for the XL versions (R100 less for standard) if you shop a bit and you can still print either colour or black/white if one of the cartridges is empty, which is big plus. Refill places like Inkey readily stock refurbished cartridges for 40% less if you want to go that route. The printer does not complain when you use those.

The cost of a cartridge is relative.For example the hp 940xl prints 1200 pages of normal text.It costs around R500 bucks,I've spent R400 on a lexmark cartridge that couldn't even print 200 pages!

Cost per page is what matters.