Morning all,
Any recommendations for a good value small office / home printer - would prefer wireless if possible and assuming laser would be better / best ?
Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Having been through a few inkjets in our office in the house I'm now stuck on laser. You can leave it for months and it should still work next time you need it - unlike an inkjet which will need a new cartridge and will then see its arse about some other stupid thing.
I'm currently using an old Brother laser (just USB, no wifi) linked to a Raspberry Pi running Google Cloud Print so it's accessible to pretty much anything from anywhere. This can be done without a Pi... I just fancied a play!
Unfortunately Cloud print is being stopped in about 12 months time which is a bit rubbish.
I've a Lexmark C2425, seems solid.
Cheers - will check the Lexmark out
- quick google brought this up - anyone any thoughts on it :-
im in a similar predicament having a 15 year old hp laserjet (which is now a struggle and a bodge up to get drivers working)that as sharkbait says - jsut keeps on trucking. we dont print lots but when we do the last thing i need to be doing is ****ing about with it .
So i have been looking at an HP M15W to replace it which looks like a direct modern replacement for what i have + wireless/wifi print.
70 quid or there abouts.
black and white only - but we only print off stuff like tickets and receipts as required- if we want photos printed we just pay to get them printed by anyone of the online mob on decent paper.
I have a little all in one HP inkjet. It was really cheap and I'm on a free tier for HPs ink service. But every time I print after not using it for a few months it takes ages to clean and de-gunk the heads. I'm done with it. I need a small black and white all in one laser.
Brother keep doing cashback deals on laser printers that can make them silly cheap - this is what I have: https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-hl-l8260cdw/139150
Doesn't get huge use but way cheaper to run than an inkjet (using 3rd party toner) and doesn't need to clean nozzles (wasting all the ink) if it goes a few weeks without printing. Does all the Apple Airprint stuff, and installs in a couple of clicks on Windows and Macs. Still really happy with it.
im in a similar predicament having a 15 year old hp laserjet (which is now a struggle and a bodge up to get drivers working
If you can't find model-specific drivers, an old Laserjet will probably work just fine using any old generic PCL6 driver.
Brother keep doing cashback deals on laser printers that can make them silly cheap
Yeah, but look at the running costs. You've got four cartridges in there at ~ £100 a throw. Assuming the printer comes with full cartridges (which many don't) it'd be cheaper to buy a new printer each time the ink ran out.
Granted the purchase price is higher but this is like a fifth of the cost for ink: https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/samsung-proxpress-sl-c4010nd/144450
I guess it rather depends on usage, if you want to print the occasional 2-page document once a week then the Brother makes sense, if you're going to be printing 2,000 pages a month then the Samsung will have paid for itself in six months.
Compatible cartridges are more like £50 a set though.
Still on originals though, lowest is black at 80% full, about 700 pages in. They seem to be full 4000 page ones.
HP Envy with instant ink is working nicely for us. £3/mo is all we pay for ink, and the printer never misses a beat. It's a 5640.
HP instant ink user here. bought a printer for £40 about 8 months ago only cost me £1 so far when I went over my free plan limit
Compatible cartridges are more like £50 a set though.
Good point, well made.
you can’t find model-specific drivers, an old Laserjet will probably work just fine using any old generic PCL6 driver.
I do.its still a pain in the arse to find one that worked with windows 10 and more often I find I want to print from my phone rather than email it to my self and fire up the computer.
