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| 216035 | 2004-02-16 21:35:00 | Thinking of buying one of these (www.qmb.co.nz) Anybody have any comments???? |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 216036 | 2004-02-17 00:15:00 | See if you can find out how much ink will cost you in the future. Lexmark offer great priced printers with the catch usually being that the ink cost is prohibitive. A colleaque recently forked out close to $100.00 for only a black Lexmark cartridge, whilst a black and a colour Canon compatible cartridge cost me $33 yesterday. The Canon's tanks are smaller, admitedly, however it was still far more expensive on a per ml basis. J :D |
Jester (13) | ||
| 216037 | 2004-02-17 00:37:00 | I have been looking at that, with widely varying results, but the consumables don't appear to be that expensive. Thanks for your comments. |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 216038 | 2004-02-18 19:51:00 | The Warehouse has Lexmark printers for $100, including both black and colour cartridges. The model is z605, I think. This new model does not yet have available Calidand cartridge clones - found at Dick Smith and the Warehouse Stationary shops but the Calidad web site may list the correct compatible cartridge. In any case I would be sure that cheap cloned cartridges could be bought before getting hooked into HAVING to buy the expensive ones. Personally I am waiting for the Chinese or someone to end the ridiculously high price of cartridges, ie, for some company to sell printers that have decent volumes of ink at decent prices per cartridge without having to get cloned cheapies. |
Steve_L (763) | ||
| 216039 | 2004-02-18 21:14:00 | It is catch-22 Steve . Printer manufacturers make their money from the consumables, not from the hardware, which is why it can often be cheaper to buy a new printer than it is to buy an ink cartridge for your old one . A few years back I bought a Canon printer (at model run-out price) for less than the cost of two cartridges . I was only in the market for cartridges but figured a spare printer wouldn't go amiss . Significantly cheaper consumables would probably mean a steep increase in initial outlay for the hardware . I have found the best compromise to be using a laser for B&W and keep the inkjet strictly for colour . I often print the text on pages with the laser then run them through the inkjet to insert diagrams or pictures requiring colour . Cheers Billy 8-{) :| |
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