Printers

[Sabre]

Guys,

There are so many makes of printers on the market I don't know where to start, what brand would you suggest for a combined network printer, scanner, photo printer?? I'm ideally looking at a laser printer.

Thx,

[senorblinky]

Kyoceramita!

[Voicy]

Do yourself a favour and look at the price of the cartridges. That's the only way I go about buying printers lately.

[Sabre]

Hiya Voicy, why Kyocera????
Is it:
- cost per page
- build quality
- image quality
- support

[Noodle]

Office or home?

[EyeBall]

if it's for your company , best will be rent from nasua or xerox , they do the all in one , you pay a fixed rate , that includes toner, maintenance and support

if it's home printer , get yourself a canon :D

[TG]

I second canon.

[Sabre]

It's for home, will have a look at the canon's .....franx

[SintaxErr]

HP Photosmart C4483 with the 3 year waranty added on. Copy, scan, print. R950.00
I've only had it for a while, but it looks good. I'm not big on photo printing, but the quality of the photos it does print is top notch. Actually all the prints are good. Color, black and white the works.

[Askari]

If its for home then there is only one choice: HP

[Sabre]

Franks guys

[gus]

I also use two HP's at home.

[Punky3025]

I agree HP. We have a lot of printers. i have been through the cannonc / lexmarks ect. Hp comes out on top everytime

[stoke]

Yet another vote for HP from me.

[Noodle]

I third Cannon, have the MP600 at home have not had a days hassle with it, and the ink carts are cheaper :D

Photo prints are great, along with the cd prints too.
Printing to paper is great, prints duplex automatically. It scans, prints, copys :sharp:


Cannon FTW! :woot:

[stoke]

I have a Cannon Smartbase MPC600F sitting right next to me, it's 3 years old, it cannot print in black and refuses to communicate with the computer on USB or LPT, and ... Cannon cannot fix it.

My HP is still running 100%.

[Flatty]

Dell started selling printers because HP ink was more expensive ml. for ml. than Dom Perignon. I still think it's a rip off, but they do have good products with better than average print quality.

Laser MFP's are overkill for home use, and you won't get the same print quality that a inkjet offers.

If you are going to try and save some money and make use of generic cartridges, and/or refill cartidges -

1. Lexmark for refilling - the simplest to refill with any reasonable success rate.
2. Canon/Epson for generics - best value for money
3. HP for originals - refilling has a high failure rate & generics are not that cheap.

My experience, use it, lose it, I don't care :D