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I don't use a Printer at home and the ones I buy for work related stuff are way too much - size, cost, ongoing costs - for a replacement for an older gentleman who does a bit of colour printing.
What's the go to home printer nowadays. This was the last one I bought for myself
I have to say I am a big fan of the HP stuff, great value and touch wood never had a breakdown yet. I have used Dell, Lexmark, Cannon & HP at home / small business and my HP ones are the best I have had
Impressed with HP that much I switched everything from Dell to HP.
I have one similar to this at home, very capable printer, Ink is readily available through the instant renew system where the printer orders the ink itself for a monthly fee, I just buy mine as and when. I have found they don't seem to keep altering the cartridges when they update models, had this with a Lexmark that was the reason it had to go.
As soon as I witched to the HP I realised my Lexmark wasn't great
I also have a fairly old HP Photo printer 10-12 years old, still prints perfectly and Ink cartridges are still the current ones.
Our HP510 was chucked a few years back for no other reason than it wasn't used anymore. Built like tanks, last longer too!
The later low-end domestic HP photosmarts annoy me...the drivers seem flakey and resource hungry, although thay may have improved on them in recent years. The C4200 we have in Spain is dries out its ink catridges if left unused for a few months and has no proper "out" tray Hope the newer models have got better. The ePrint app is pretty good though.
I like the Canon Pixmas, got one myself and our new Bosch BEA950 comes with a Pixma iP7250, which so far seems ok. Plugged and played onto the WiFi ok and auto detected on PC and Mac, iPhone app seems a bit slow printing though. Compared to HP's ePrint which I use on the officejets.
Have a look here they do an offer choose a free printer. But a number of sets of ink cartridges and get the printer free. I got a Brother 4 in 1 that does A3 it's great. Quick delivery aswell.
Epsom stylus range for me, I very rarely use a printer (mostly for boarding passes on Ryan Air) inks are cheap £7 for a full set and the printers are very easy and straight forward to use, current one is around 10yrs old and never had a problem, it's a scanner too which comes in handy for documents like passport etc, prints good pictures too.
Epsom stylus SX425W.
Last edited by ditchmyster; 09 July 2016 at 09:40 AM.
We recently been able do visa / passport app on phone ( photo) them straight to email.
Also used phone for BA boarding pass.
Pretty sure did same Ryan air to France recently
Yeah I've seen people doing that and that you can download the app on Ryanairs website, I just prefer hard copy and having been bitten by Ryan air over boarding passes in the past I like to make sure I have a hard copy before I leave the house, I'm old fashioned like that, I even still use cash money.
Overkill for you probably, but its great full apple talk, Full duplex printing colour laser, back in my day these would have been 1000s 250 quid now...
08 July 2016, 11:15 AM
Home printer recommendations
Hope the newer models have got better. The ePrint app is pretty good though.
