Cheap Printer

ClonmelMan

Looking for a cheap printer or best prices...online would be nice?

peckerhead

Me too (sorry for piggybacking, ClonmelMan... )
— but has to be a HP Inkjet (for reasons I won't go into... )
"Newsed" would do me, if the price is right.

kinkstr

get youself a canon bubble jet,around 100 yo yo's in most shops,also available in argos and the ink is very cheap to
7 yo yo's for black and colour is around 15 yo yo's

ruprect

beware of cheap printers they are usually subsidised and they screw you on the cartridges

peckerhead

ruprect wrote:

beware of cheap printers they are usually subsidised and they screw you on the cartridges

I know, that's why it has to be HP (Ireland's favourite ice cream... :rollin)
'Cause that's what we use at work, see?

EKRIUQ

peckerhead wrote:

I know, that's why it has to be HP (Ireland's favourite ice cream... :rollin)
'Cause that's what we use at work, see?

Aw, the plot thickens

byte

Aaah, cheap ink then ingenious!

peckerhead

byte wrote:

Aaah, cheap ink then ingenious!

How cheap is "free"...?
Sssshhhh, now, all together...!

peckerhead

My eye spies... a HP Deskjet 5150 for €139.15 at http://www.printech.ie/hpinkjet.htm

Anyone know better?

Nukem

Those prices are unreal expensive . The top one i bough with my mates in col last yr for €80 in PC world and my dad bought the second one for €80 in Flor Griffins bout 3wks ago.For a printer better off shopping on foot,unless its a really good deal.

Fabritzo

TIPPTOP wrote:

Aw, the plot thickens

Dear lord, how uncool are you, so uncool hardly anyone noticed, the irony.

peckerhead

Nukem wrote:

Those prices are unreal expensive [...] For a printer better off shopping on foot,unless its a really good deal.

Where? (in Limerick and/or Dublin)
Right now i've a maximum bid on of €30 + €21 p&p on eBay for a Deskjet 5150 (new in box) from Germany, from a guy I've bought stuff off before with keine problem...

Anyone tell me better than that?

Nukem

Bought the ifrst on in PC World Limerick bout 9months ago,alright too,went through three of us malesting it for 6months of reports,the 5150 is the newer version and got than in Flor Griffins in Cork.

conZ

I've a HP 5150 printer here beside me. Theyre not the greatest, 57 and 58/56 cartridges aren't the cheapest to refill, but are quite easy to refill and fairly successful.

We've had problems with the printer since we started using it - getting big white lines (diagonal and horizontal) on printouts.

In my opinion, (I work in a cartridge refill shop), the Lexmark Z13/23 series are popular (16, 17, 26 and 27 cartridges). Easy to refill, and succesful if the cartridges are kept well.

Try get your hands on one those, or maybe an old HP (695 or 895 or so) that use the 78 and 45 cartridges - they should be cheap at this stage, and you get a decent page yield out of the cartridges.

Canon Bubblejets (eg. BCI21 cartridges) are decent alright, but I've had one at home for years, and it gets quite ****ed after a while. Cheap refill prices on the cartridges, and easy to refill.

Don't go near any of the new Epson printers - impossible to refill, and expensive to buy new cartridges.

heggie

the 5150 is a good printer nowadays. Older printers always had bigger cartridges, and the 5150 isnt too bad especailly for black ink. It has been replaced so u should find it cheap enuff, dont buy the new version of it (5814 i think) cos once again, cartridges are more expensive AND smaller , oh yeh and i have NEVER on any printer EVER seen good, even acceptable results from refill cartridges.

conZ

I have.