Printer and Scanner

tommycahir

Hi Guys

Apologies for yet another thread on printers and scanners, I am looking at picking up a multifunction printer in the sales and have narrowed it down to the following. I don't have a great lot to spend (~€80ish) but don't want to buy a piece of crap either (possibly slight contradiction but that's the hope anyway).
Here are some of the basic info to assist in giving advice as to which is best:
- Maximum size I will want to print is A4 and it will be used for basic infrequent photo printing (on photo paper) and some basic office type printing.
- I am not concerned by machine noise or print time.
- I have a number of family pictures ( 50+) that I want to scan from childhood and would like to get a decent scan quality.

I have been having a look around and narrowed it down to the following in my price range:
Canon Pixma MP272
HP Deskjet 3050
HP Deskjet 2050
HP Photosmart eAllinOne
Epson Stylus SX125


Regards and thanks in advance for the help.
Tommy

Heebie

My issue would be that none of the printers in that list uses archival inks.. so the prints may look great when they come out.. but in 5 years you'll need to print new copies of anything you print with it because they will have faded so badly.
I've never seen a multifunction yet that uses good inks.

tommycahir

Thanks heebie for the response, I actually decided in the end to go with an epson sx515w as I got a really good deal at curry's on it.

It may not be the best photo printer but as you said but it is quiet a good all-rounder from the reviews that I have read.

regards
Tommy