sidicks Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 (edited) Our Dell (free) printer is running out of ink, and with 2 cartridges coming in at £55 from Dell (although no doubt unbranded cartridges would be a bit cheaper), we thought it worth considering investing in a new (wireless) printer which would be much more convenient for us. Can anyone recommend a wireless, all-in-one printer incorporating scanner, fax, printer and potentially of sufficient quality to print photos (or is the general concensus that it is much easier and of broadly comparable costs to print them at Boots?!)? Budget would be between £50 and £250 depending on recommendations and availability of special deals?! Cheers Sidicks Edited January 3, 2009 by sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 Stear clear of Lexmark or HP if you don't want the spectre of expensive cartridges rearing their ugly heads again. I've been using Epson's with between 4 and 6 cartridges for the last few years - you can pick up ink for these from a few quid a set, although the later models are getting spicier for ink as Epson are starting to 'tweak' the printers so that they don't like the 'clone' jobbies, that said the 'clone' cartridge makers seem to always get it sorted quite quick. I'd start with the usual suspects - Tesco Direct, Ebuyer, PC World. You never know who's doing the 'big' offers until you get into looking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pingpongpo Posted January 3, 2009 Report Share Posted January 3, 2009 I'm sure PC world had an offer on yesterday for a half price wireless printer. Not sure of make though...came out at about £60 notes (was £120) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) Just to let you know I'm stumping 134 sheets for an Epson PX700W later today from PC World, 'booked online' for store pickup at the web price. Seems to do what you want - and what I want - CD/DVD printing at decent quality. Was going for the 'top of the range' PX800FW at £230-250 but none locally and the only advantages over the 700 are fax and an A4 auto sheet feeder for the scanner bit, oh and a bigger LCD screen that does touchscreen. Cartridges run at about 40 quid a set (1 black and 5 colour) for genuine Epson, but I'm sure I'll find cheaper aftermarket jobbies for my daily run of the mill stuff, and swap into the Epson's for wifey's photo sessions! Just noticed (again) you want fax so you'll want the PX800FW thats around £230-250 online. I can live without fax, but that said it wouldv'e been nice but not for a ton, for me a bit spicy! Edited January 4, 2009 by pontyslapper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 4, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 (edited) Thanks for your post - funnily enough in my research last night I'd narrowed it down to the Epson PX700 or PX800, and had decided that we could live without the fax machine (and touch screen display) for the sake of £120. Our PC World has none of these in stock, so I'm planning to order it from amazon for £122 delivered. I would have liked to have picked this up to set it up today, but for another £25 saving I can wait for a few extra days! There are a couple of questions that I'd be very grateful if you could answer for me: 1) Presumably it comes with ink included? Is this the standard T0807 Ciara multipack ink (all 6 cartridges) or a smaller 'starter' pack? If the latter, then I will probably order a replacment set of inks at the same time. 2) When you scan an A4 page, does it scan the full image? Our previous Lexmark would cut off a thin border all the way around the edge which could be frustrating depending on what you were trying to scan. I'm hoping that as this is a photo printer and hence can print right to the edges with zero margins, that it might scan similarly...??? Thanks! Sidicks Edited January 4, 2009 by sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Just arrived home in the last 5 minutes from PC World in Merthyr where it was trying to snow. I think it comes with a proper set of inks - the first set prime everything up on Epson's that's why they always seem heavy on the first set of ink! There's a chap on ebay, from Bristol who does buy it nows on the genuine multipack inks for about £22 plus postage - I'm having a few of them - £49 in PC World and about £45 quid everywhere else!! You have to search for T0807 on ebay if I remember! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 Haven't setup yet - wifey has had me helping her 'trim down' while the nipper is kipping! All done and away in the loft. I would think that it may do 'borderless' scanning as it does 'borderless' printing, but that said until I setup and play later I just don't know! Sorry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 4, 2009 Report Share Posted January 4, 2009 I know its late - just finished printing off my 'justification' to the wife. Amazing colour reproduction of a photo she took of the nipper in her ball pit - had them printed 'properly' and the PX700W has IMO blown the 'proper' kit away! Scanning wise - it seems 'borderless' to me, but I'm no expert and I only had a letter handy to scan. I scanned on fully auto mode and it was done in about a minute. Out of the box - top piece of kit - needs a little bit of tweaking like everything to fit around where you want stuff put etc. I've got mine 'hooked' into the router rather than via USB which means some of the functions on the front panel of the printer such as the scanner options don't seem to work - you just have to use the relevant software bit on the PC - the joys of networked printers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Thanks for that - I best order one straight away!! sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Ordered !! Sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 5, 2009 Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Just for reference... chappie in Bristol who does genuine ink for £22 plus p+p eBay UK Shop - inkandtonersupplies: Epson, HP, Lexmark I've just ordered 3 sets - just a bit more than a smidgeon over the £49 that PC World want for one set!! He sends them out minus the 'pretty' box with the bird on it apparently - less weight and bulk - cheaper postage and less chance of having to trek down the sorting office I guess - they are still in the vacuum pack mind - you'll know what I mean when you unpack yours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 5, 2009 Thanks - Following your PM yesterday, I'd already ordered one set from this chap! Sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 He frighteningly quick with his ink despatch. Ordered yesterday at 11am and the posty 'carded' us at 11:05am today. So I know where to go for ink 'in a hurry' and at a good price! Just picked them up and am about to leave feedback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 (edited) I won't be home for a few hours yet, but my wife tells me that there is a card through the door suggesting that a recorded delivery parcel was attempted to be delivered this morning - I guess that is the ink! So it does appear to be amazingly efficient service! Sidicks Edited January 6, 2009 by sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hopsta Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 AudiPartner also does a cracking service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 6, 2009 Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Didn't even know a TSN'r was in that game - If AP's prices are anything like £22 plus p&p for the genuine T0807 multipack I rather he gets my future custom rather than some 'random' on eBay! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2009 Didn't even know a TSN'r was in that game - If AP's prices are anything like £22 plus p&p for the genuine T0807 multipack I rather he gets my future custom rather than some 'random' on eBay! Likewise - I always try and support fellow TSN colleagues if I can, but as no-one responded to my post I went elsewhere. Next time i need ink I will contact AudiPartner! Sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 10, 2009 Report Share Posted January 10, 2009 Has your 700 arrived yet?? How you finding it?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 Has your 700 arrived yet??How you finding it?? Simple to set up, and so far very impressive. Haven't printed any photos yet, but ordinary printing is excellent. Sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 11, 2009 Report Share Posted January 11, 2009 I played with the notepaper setting last night - totally funky A4 notepaper with pictures of the nipper watermarked behind some feint lines - not quite 'school' style A4 notepaper, more sort of quick notes to aunties and uncles stylee - very funky! Very impressed with the photocopy function - it does borderless, shame I was rushing and didn't line the letter up properly - thank goodness it was only for a 'rough' storage copy! All told I'm very impressed - the photo printing is phenomenal - we compared it on Best Photo to a professionally printed photo that we took of the nipper in her ball pit - all those colours on the balls - we didn't tell anyone which was which and nearly everyone picks the 700 effort over the pro lab job every time. That in my view makes it well worth the dough for proper ink and photo paper - I'll not be feeding this with 'aftermarket' ink or paper methinks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidicks Posted January 12, 2009 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 I must admit that when I read on the Epson website "And your photos will be better than lab quality”, I took that with a pinch of salt. After all, why doesn’t the lab just spend £150 on a new printer…………. Anyway it’s good to hear that it works well! Sidicks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pontyslapper Posted January 12, 2009 Report Share Posted January 12, 2009 I know what you're saying - but its a volume thing, I guess. The photo centres in most supermarkets where we'd get our photos done have a balance between quality and price - its a compromise thing. I think a 7x5 from the 700 would be quite a few times pricey than the 7x5 from Asda's - that said we'll still be 'bulk' printing the photos at Asda/Tesco/etc and then 'home' printing the ones that will be gifts for grandparents/family as the quality is that much higher just on a side by side look, even if you really look at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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