After something cheap and cheerful, but which equally I hope would last a while and give some reasonable print quality.

Anyone spotted anything worthwhile in the sales?

How cheap's cheap?

I'm looking myself - so interested in any suggestions too.

BUT: Look at the price of replacement cartridges, not the printer - it's often a loss leader!

What sort of budget? Also remember that cheap to buy is not necessarily cheap to run as the ink refills are the killer on most printers. Also depends what you're wanting to print too - photos, text, charts, etc?

Chris

Just got an HP printer/scanner/copier for £30 from Curries.

Just stay well away from the budget Lexmark ones - my boss bought one and it goes through ink at an alarming rate.

Well, I guess £50 tops. I barely do any printing so hopefully refills won't be needed. Would be nice if a replacement printer were cheaper than the refills.

If you hardly print in colour, you might have issues with the cartridges drying out. :(

Well, it's an every now and then thing - but I don't need anything for high output, or extreme dpi quality.

For that sort of price, I'd just take a wander down to PC World. HP/Epson would be where my money would go

Chris

Just bought one of these and the genuine inks are £6.99 each

Buy a cheap Epson Stylus DX8450 - All In One Printer from PC World UK.

Seems ok for light use

HTH

Canon Pixma 3500 from PC world - £55

I picked up an Epson Stylus DX4050 (combined scanner/fax) for around 50 quid, good quality for a cheap printer and has 4 seperate ink cartridges, around 10 quid each to replace but far less frequent than usual, It tends to be one or two at a time rather than all 4. (Comes with 4 cartridges)