Do any of you kind people happen to know what is the best all in one printer around at the minute?

I currently have a lexmark x74 and its been fine for the last couple of years, but the cartridge refills are really expensive (over

I got an Epson Stlyus RX420 all-in-one jobby, awesome prints in hald decent paper, ink lasts a while, scans at high quality, and does quick one-touch copies

Epson ...get a photo printer r300 or r 200 or whatever is the latest flavour............and then get your ink from here

Phoenix Direct Epson T481-6

they really are cheap and they do work been using their compatible ink for well over 5 years with NO problems

Now my kids are wanting to print stuff more and more, and its costing a fortune in ink.

I have been told to go for an Epson as new cartridges can be picked up for a fiver.

Do you agree? or can anyone recommend whats best to go for?

Equivalent Canons are good too (3rd party cartridges are usually cheaper than Epson), and print results are roughly identical. Worth a look if there's any special offers on, etc.

Rob.

I like my R300 but it'll depend what kind of printing you're doing. For the majority of text/black and white printing, I'd got for a laser every time. For photos, I like the R300

Chris

I'm a Canon man these days, for inkjet printing. Have used HPs and later Epsons but my current Pixma IP3000 is very good indeed. Cracking quality (I regularly frame the results from it) and gen cartridges are about £9 each for it from MX2: Food for Enthusiasts - they last ages too. Separate ink tanks are an excellent option if you're shopping about too.

The updated model of mine, the 3300, is around £50 online. Check Savastore.com – Computers, Hardware, Components, Displays, Software, Photo, Aries PC

Steve

I have an HP2420dn for home use... 16ppm and a built in duplexer unit and network ready....

If you do an awful lot of printing, like several pages a day and particularly a 6x4 or A4 sized photo printouts, you can get yourself an Epson R200 or R300 and get a CISS (continuous ink supply system).

It's a tad "messy", but you'll never fork out on ink cartridges again, and the ink you get in bottles is endlessly cheaper than prepared cartridges.

Another thing to bear in mind, at least with the epson, when you change cartridge, it wants to do some print-head aligning, etc, and that uses ink from all the cartridges, not just the one you've replaced.

One of my pet hates is the blocked nozzles I occasionally get (don't use mine everyday) and it insists on squirting out half the capacity of EVERY cartridge, despite only one being blocked I'll get a CISS one day...