sagfgrump wrote:
My HP printer that I bought about 10 years ago is proving too expensive in terms of ink - and also is not working very well with colour photos.
what would people recommend - I use it for word documents and printing photos in colour, I was happy with the print quality of my old HP (c4480), but shelling out the price I paid for the printer each time I need a new colour cartridge seems a bit steep!
I print my photos at Costco or a lab and use my printer for everything else. I print a LOT and have had a Canon G3200 Megatank printer for about 2 1/2 years. The ink tanks are refillable and the ink is about the same price as a cartridge, but the bottles have about 10x as much as a normal cartridge. My printer paid for itself in about a year (I used to spend about $300 per year on ink cartridges for my Canon Pixma, 9500 I think). You get about 6,000 pages of text from a black ink bottle that costs $17.99. It only uses 3 colors and each is $11.99 and a set is supposed to be good for about 7,000 pages of color text.