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Thread ID: 52295	2004-12-16 04:23:00	Best basic printer	Joe Blogs (35)	Press F1

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303707	2004-12-16 19:34:00	Based on experience, I would rate them in the order of HP, Canon. Epsom is a suburb of Auckland, so not sure how that relates. ;) Epson (the printers) however tend to consume a lot of ink in cleaning cycles, as do Brother. But do look at the lasers currently on offer, there are some amazing low prices.	godfather (25)
303708	2004-12-16 20:08:00	I perhaps should have named the title "Best basic budget printer". All we are really looking for is a very basic printer for printing a few documents a week. Colour is not important. We have an xp machine. Looks like the low end canons could do the trick. Anything new on the market these days should do the trick. You're looking around $70-$100 max I'd say.	~sy~ (95)
303709	2004-12-17 00:06:00	Based on experience, I would rate them in the order of HP, Canon. Epsom is a suburb of Auckland, so not sure how that relates. ;) Epson (the printers) however tend to consume a lot of ink in cleaning cycles, as do Brother. But do look at the lasers currently on offer, there are some amazing low prices. Why do you rate HP above Canon Goddie, build quality, ink consumption, print quality & speed? I've only owned HP's but was considering Canon this time around although I haven't delved into the pros and cons yet. Lasers are looking promising in duo with a high end injet for colour images, however I outsource most of my larger print work now, fast, no hassle and cheap. Epsom Print for you Goddie (www.londonancestor.com), no doubt it took a bit of ink to produce ;) Apologies for the OT Joe	Murray P (44)
303710	2004-12-17 00:22:00	Personal experience only Murray. All the HP printers I have ever bought are still in service (and it's into the dozens) apart from one which simply wore out after many thousands of pages. I ran a fleet of them in a large organisation, and "inherited" a large number as a result of a merger. Of all the inherited IT "junk" the HP printers were still going, and were the only devices to survive a review. Canon work fine, but when you spend thousands on a top end large format printer and have to junk it after a year and a half because the device was not supported by a new 32 bit operating system ("we only sold that in NZ and Australian and a few other markets, so we are not going to release new drivers sorry") I went off Canon in a big way. All the HP migrated fine. But the Canon gear works fine.	godfather (25)
303711	2004-12-17 01:03:00	The cheaper the printer the more expensive the ink	noone (22)
303712	2004-12-17 01:33:00	...and don't forget Joe to factor in the cost of a usb cable if you haven't a spare - many of the cheap Canon's are usb only , and don't come with a cable included	KatiMike (242)
303713	2004-12-17 01:34:00	The cheaper the printer the more expensive the ink Not necessarily - I got a Canon i250 because it was cheap but with research found that almost all Canon printers use the same ink tanks (BCI24) which are cheap and they all seem to print similar resolutions too... Go for a Canon - I can't speak from too much experience as I've only had it for a year but I cant fault it :)	HadO (796)
303714	2004-12-17 04:07:00	The laser suggestion was serious. Any inkjet which prints two or three pages on weekdays,and has the weekend off is likely to have problems with clogged printhead holes. You'll use much more ink in cleaning cycles than ever gets onto paper. A low cost laser will give much cheaper printing.	Graham L (2)
303715	2004-12-17 04:31:00	A low cost laser will give much cheaper printing. Suggestions as to model ?? Cheers T	TonyF (246)
303716	2004-12-17 06:48:00	Brother 1430 or is it 1240,I forget but the lowend brother laser printers can be had for around $225 They run to about 5000-6000 copies before the drum needs replacement and then its cheaper to get a new printer cheap toner reliable ---until drum dies reasonably fast	the highlander (245)
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