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Cheap decent printer

Kate Kestrel

Hi - can anyone recommend a decent printer that’s really cheap?

ours has broken and I really need to print out something very important this weekend - please help! Thanks !

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  • I'm not sure about the printer but maybe curry's have one? or you could look at amazon?

    Rather than a really cheap one, how about investing in a more expensive one what might last longer and be better quality? It all depends how often you print though

  • in reply to pinkchocoholic

    I bought a cheap one from Argos and they’re delivering it today - fingers crossed it’s not completely rubbish! We hardly ever use a printer - but when we need it we need it - and this was for some important forms that I absolutely have to post on Tuesday morning, The whole thing has been very stressful, and when my husband was packing up the broken one he spilled black printer ink over my sons rug in his bedroom and we had to throw that away too! What a mess! 

  • in reply to Kate Kestrel

    I find its often not the cost of the printer, but the cost of replacement ink thats the problem, some will take generic and therefore cheaper ink cartridges others know and reject them.

    I had a kitten that killed my printer, first he pounced on the paper as it was coming out and jammed it up, I sorted that out and then he walloped the ink cartridge as is was shuttling across, it didn't recover from that.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Yikes - I didn’t actually think about, I just bought a cheap one - we needed it quick. By the end of yesterday I was desperate quite frankly! It’s was comically bad - my husband managed to get ink spilled downstairs, upstairs, ruined a rug, ruined his trousers - it was as if he’d been wrestling with a Squid! Nightmare! Divorce pending!Joy It’s arrived and seems to work ok - and for now I’m just relieved about that! Hardly ever need a printer - we absolutely HAD to get this done this weekend. Argos might not be my favourite shop but their delivery service is absolutely great (in my experience anyway). Printer had 20% off too. Result (at least for now anyway!). 

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I find its often not the cost of the printer, but the cost of replacement ink thats the problem

    That is the key thing. Printers nowadays can be cheap but the ink isn’t.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    Yikes - I didn’t actually think about, I just bought a cheap one - we needed it quick. By the end of yesterday I was desperate quite frankly! It’s was comically bad - my husband managed to get ink spilled downstairs, upstairs, ruined a rug, ruined his trousers - it was as if he’d been wrestling with a Squid! Nightmare! Divorce pending!Joy It’s arrived and seems to work ok - and for now I’m just relieved about that! Hardly ever need a printer - we absolutely HAD to get this done this weekend. Argos might not be my favourite shop but their delivery service is absolutely great (in my experience anyway). Printer had 20% off too. Result (at least for now anyway!).