Well it's been about 4 years and the old HP SX515W all in one has finally died, it's been taken apart cleaned and rebuilt more times than I can recall.

 

Now it's just been cleaned and it's jamming the paper and ink is going everywhere - so rather than spend yet another night with it in bits, I've decided to just bin it and buy a new one.

 

I'm looking for a cheap all in one, which isn't going to kill me on replacement cartridge costs.

 

Wireless is ideal - but not a necessity, but scanning and photocopying is a must.

 

Or - I can keep the HP and just use it for scanning and buy a more expensive one without scanner unit.

 

Anyone know of any good deals or can recommend one?  I don't print that much in the way of photo's.

 

I heard that some mono laser's are now just as cheap - if not cheaper than - inkjets.

 

Any recommendations?

We changed to a cheap laser and havent looked back, only ever used it for printing flight details and things like that. Has proved to be a much cheaper option!

Buy a cheap mono laser with compatible toner available, and then on the odd occasion you need good colour photos use an online printing service.

Saw this.

 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-MFCJ5910DW-Colour-Multifunction-Printer/dp/B005QOX4K8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1390863097&sr=8-3&keywords=brother+mfcj6510dw

 

Mono lasers seem just as expensive with less features.

I asked a similar question on the forum just before Christmas, (http://www.briskoda.net/forums/topic/298704-printer-recommendations/ ) I bought a Canon Pixma MG 5550, I've seen them for £60 since. So far so good, just ordered my first set of compatible inks - that'll be the test!

We too went for a cheap mono laser. It was a Samsung that currys were selling for £35 at the time.

 

Cartridge lasts ages and it's so much quicker than an inkjet. Plus for occasional use they don't dry out and clog up like the faffy inkjets do all the time.

 

If we ever want to print pictures we just nip to Tesco round the corner or use an online service. The quality is better anyway.

 

Phil

Mono laser are dearer up front but you can look at 5000+ pages from one refill and if you're happy to take a chance refills can be just as cheap as inkets.

 

I have a rather ancient Samsung Mono laser all-in-one. SWMBO is a teacher and she prints lots. It's taken a right hammering over the years and it's going to be a software update that kills it not a hardware failure. I recently paid £25 for 2x 5000 page refills. Took a chance over the £70 OEM refills but they work fine.

 

Lasers are also much more reliable than inkjets btw. No inks to dry up.

 

If you need colour pay an online photo shop. Printing photos at a home is a mug's game now.

Thanks. Its not a daily use printer and I have noticed over the years that the ink jet needed nozzles unclogging and stuff to get pages coming out looking white and not covered in ink along the edges.

Pc world/currys are selling a wireless colour samsung laser for just over 100. Might take a look at that. I do sometimes print docs in colour with graphs and stuff in them.

Plus SWMBO used to clean and recycle toner cartridges, so she can sort that out for me.

Usual warning it to check the refill cost before buying. Lasers tend to come with a half filled toner when new.

Mono laser are dearer up front but you can look at 5000+ pages from one refill and if you're happy to take a chance refills can be just as cheap as inkets.

 

I have a rather ancient Samsung Mono laser all-in-one. SWMBO is a teacher and she prints lots. It's taken a right hammering over the years and it's going to be a software update that kills it not a hardware failure. I recently paid £25 for 2x 5000 page refills. Took a chance over the £70 OEM refills but they work fine.

 

Lasers are also much more reliable than inkjets btw. No inks to dry up.

 

If you need colour pay an online photo shop. Printing photos at a home is a mug's game now.

Not necessarily so - my hobby is photography and I spend a lot of time getting the colours/ saturation right so I bought a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 which I have set up with the printing profile. 100% perfect colour every time.

 

A lot of online printing outlets have no profiles so you trust to luck that the image comes out the way you want it

I know the OP was looking to replace an inkjet with a low cost alternative, but has anyone got any recommendations for a colour laser to replace my ageing and costly Lexmark C520? It currently requires (or so it says  :think: ) a transfer belt, at least two toners and I think all four PC units and I can't be bothered with it any more.

 

I'd really like one that combines a scanner as well and has low running costs and don't mind paying up to £400/£500 (it's for the business). Any suggestions?

Don't understimate ebay for toner cartridges. I pay about a tenner each for cartridges for our little HP LaserJets, and I tend to see about 5000 pages out of each. 

I know the OP was looking to replace an inkjet with a low cost alternative, but has anyone got any recommendations for a colour laser to replace my ageing and costly Lexmark C520? It currently requires (or so it says  :think: ) a transfer belt, at least two toners and I think all four PC units and I can't be bothered with it any more.

 

I'd really like one that combines a scanner as well and has low running costs and don't mind paying up to £400/£500 (it's for the business). Any suggestions?

 

I'm looking for a similar.

 

Found the following 2 options so far.

 

Samsung Xpress SL-C460FW

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/printers-ink/printers-scanners/laser-printers/samsung-xpress-sl-c460fw-wireless-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-fax-21895159-pdt.html

 

HP Laserjet Pro M1217nfw

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/printers-ink/printers-scanners/laser-printers/hp-laserjet-pro-m1217nfw-wireless-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-fax-10819377-pdt.html

 

Although the bloke in PC World knew less about printers than my 8 year old.

Don't understimate ebay for toner cartridges. I pay about a tenner each for cartridges for our little HP LaserJets, and I tend to see about 5000 pages out of each. 

The last lot of ebay toners for the Lexmark were about £125, one of which didn't work (e.g. the printer wouldn't accept it was a new toner) and the others have required a good shake from quite early in their life to convince the printer that they weren't empty!!

 

When it's worked properly, the Lexmark has been a fine quality printer but it seems to be getting more and more fussy in its old age, hence why I think it's time to pension the old girl off and replace her with a newer model.

Keep the scanner bit and try an Epson WF 2010- EXCELLENT PRINTER AND FAST. And for ink ,I'd advise http://www.refillman.com/, great compatible inks , great service at quick delivery. The owner believes in first class service to get return orders.

I'm looking for a similar.

 

Found the following 2 options so far.

 

Samsung Xpress SL-C460FW

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/printers-ink/printers-scanners/laser-printers/samsung-xpress-sl-c460fw-wireless-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-fax-21895159-pdt.html

 

HP Laserjet Pro M1217nfw

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/printers-ink/printers-scanners/laser-printers/hp-laserjet-pro-m1217nfw-wireless-all-in-one-laser-printer-with-fax-10819377-pdt.html

 

Although the bloke in PC World knew less about printers than my 8 year old.

 

I've been looking for one myself.

 

The Samsung has poor reviews on most of the sites I have looked at.

 

I bought one of the colour HP Pros for work, the text and photos are very good quality, but it is VERY slow to start printing (and noisy), the toners are low capacity (~700-900 pages at best), and very expensive unless you buy replacement toner from China.

HP have just won a case against Euro resellers of 3rd party toners, so dont expect to find cheap refills for much longer without ordering direct from China.

 

BTW, you realise the one you linked to is black only?? They do have a colour laser on sale at the same price.

 

Kyocera (spl?), have some colour lasers with excellent reviews, but my only experience of one long term was not good; flimsy build quality and constant paper jams after only 1 year of fairly light use.

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I've had the opposite experience of Kyocera, admittedly it was some time ago.

 

Expensive to buy up front but inks and parts were cheaper than rivals. The one's I used were in pretty filthy garage workshops and survived pretty well.

 

Ebay will have some good used office printers. They have a higher duty cycle and bigger carts but on Ebay they'll probably be needing new fusers and drums. Might be worth looking into if you can go in with your eyes open.

 

Foreclosure auctions often have printers on offer too.

I have been thinking of getting one of the Kyocera 5150's as they are cheap enough now newer models are out, all the reviews say excellent print quality even on photos, and running costs with official toners is cheap (and really, really cheap with bulk refills from China).

Not sure how my back will cope carrying it up the stairs though (40Kg!!)

Missed the laser thing, but I can recommend Laser. I got a present of an old Apple laser writer 12/600 lots of years ago. For a lot of B&W stuff it's great. One copy- the ikjet is faster. But from memory I've had it for about ten years and only reason I haven't used it recently is that I would have to save the item and revert to XP,as I can't find drivers for it in Win7. Again ,i could speed it up on a lot of things with more memory, but even though I've got similar memory from older MB, I can't find anything that it will find. Know the thing about weight. This thing is massive and weighs a lot.

Lasers are quicker than inkjets when they get going but they do take a little while to heat up at the start.

 

We'll probably replace the Samsung eventually with some office grade duplex printer.

I've had an Epson PX720WD Inkjet all-in-one for the last three years.

 

It's thoroughly reliable and far superior to the previous Epson Inkjet.

 

It as print, copy, scan to PC/e-mail/card, print from PC/ usb stick/photo card, photo printing, double-sided printing, wi-fi or wired connection. 5 seconds to warm-up/start. Officially can't print on acetates, but can be made to do so with a bit of manipulation.

Downside is that original cartridges are a bit pricey.

 

I don't print out documents, unless absolutely necessary, most docs are stored electronically. Main use is for photos. 

 

Nick

Found this and ordered it in a heartbeat.

 

http://www.ebuyer.com/453221-cx310dn-23ppm-a4-usb-enet-512mb-1200dpi-in-28c0563

 

£449 down to £150.

 

Which is a good job as I popped into PC World and Curry's after work on Tuesday.  Curry's had 1 laser in store £50 and was crap..

 

PC World - where the hell do I start, the bloke (I say bloke - I've got socks older than this kid) knew less about printers than my 8 yr old.  I cornered a lovely young lady (assistant manager)  who knew her stff :love:  but after 2 questions her store phone rang and she had to dash off and told me she'd send someone over to look after me, Guess who showed up..  

I popped into ****y Wierd on Tuesday - just to kill some time while waiting for SWMBO to come out of college.

 

Apart from the fact they seem to have ditched 90% of the stock in favour of copying an Apple store, I was the only (potential) customer in the store, yet not one of the dozen or so staff came over to see if I needed any help until I was actually leaving the store 15 minutes later.

I used to go into PC World to bait the staff but the novelty wore off quickly. I've only been in once or twice since and always for something pre-ordered.

I did go in when the HP tablet firesale was happening, the foetus that was working kindly admitted that the staff had reserved them already.

http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/toner-cartridges/Lexmark/CX310DN.html?mv_pc=froogle&utm_source=froogle&utm_medium=cpc&utm_content=printer_toner&gclid=COaOuMmaqLwCFQPmwgodS2wAXA

 

Deep pockets !

 

Nick