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Any recommendations for a good quality, basic & small in size printer? The more compact the better!
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tabby;1449524 wrote: Any recommendations for a good quality, basic & small in size printer? The more compact the better!


Black and white or colour?

Low or heavy use?

Frequent or infrequent use? (I used to write a quarterly newsletter - I didn't print often but when I did I printed a lot).



FWIW, I've changed over to small laser printers. A b&w in the flat cost me £50 new and the colour one at home cost £65 but I've still not had to buy ink for them three years down the line and I'd have had to replace inkjets at least once each by now.
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I have an HP officeJet 4500 that works fairly well.

It cost me about $60 US when I bought it, and it costs me about $50 US to replace cartridges. Medium usage, probably every 6 months.

My only complaint is that It has to be on the same subnet as my PC for the network connection to work.

Most users probably won't care about that.
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LarsMac;1449553 wrote: I have an HP officeJet 4500 that works fairly well.

It cost me about $60 US when I bought it, and it costs me about $50 US to replace cartridges. Medium usage, probably every 6 months.

My only complaint is that It has to be on the same subnet as my PC for the network connection to work.

Most users probably won't care about that.


Main reason I don't like HP is the intrusive bloatware they saddle you with just to print a document :-(
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Bryn Mawr;1449556 wrote: Main reason I don't like HP is the intrusive bloatware they saddle you with just to print a document :-(


Yeah, there is that.

Though a while back I bought a Samsung printer and they pulled the same stunt.

And their printer was less reliable than my HP.
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LarsMac;1449561 wrote: Yeah, there is that.

Though a while back I bought a Samsung printer and they pulled the same stunt.

And their printer was less reliable than my HP.


Inkjet -> Samsung = Lexmark

Laser -> Samsung = :-6
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