Reply to: Best home printer?

[Sysman]

I use one of these at home and it's the best A3 Colour Laser I have ever used.

I installed the max capable ram memory as well, and it handles any print job I can throw at it.

Never once jammed in over a year of use, gets used nearly every day, and does what I expect it to with no hassle at all.

Ta for the tip.

I've been down the route of small home office rubbish inkjets and been on the receiving end of jams, slow printing speeds, poor colour repro, etc.

The worst printer I got was an HP DeskJet colour jobbie. I'd had the B&W version before and that was a real workhorse, but with the colour one you could never tell when it was going to jam on the first page or not. If you got past the first page it would carry on for further pages without hassle, but that first page was often a nightmare. More than once I ended up nearly missing the evening post when bashing an invoice out.

[Board Game Geek]

I use one of these at home and it's the best A3 Colour Laser I have ever used.

I installed the max capable ram memory as well, and it handles any print job I can throw at it.

Never once jammed in over a year of use, gets used nearly every day, and does what I expect it to with no hassle at all.

I've been down the route of small home office rubbish inkjets and been on the receiving end of jams, slow printing speeds, poor colour repro, etc.

The Oki is by far the most impressive printer I've ever owned.

[Sysman]

Tired of having to replace a cartridges* I got a cheap 'n' cheerful Brother laser. It just works, and they do support Macs.

* It wasn't just the cost, but the convenience as well.

[FarmerPalmer]

for low cost of running - laser all the way

I ran a little HP laser for years, then when my wife was doing a lot of printing for her etail business she bought a little Samsung laser, which was good, and very cheap to feed. replace every other toner cartridge, i.e. refill the toner once only, any more and it was terrible.

I now have a Epson C2800N - which is not little - and costs ~£300 if you want to replace all the ink (every 1500-3000 pages)

[Addanc]

Wouldn't a pack of coloured crayons would suffice for his picture book.

[scooterscot]

I have the Telegraph -

What kind of contractor are you?

[DiscoStu]

I have a small Samsung laser, cost pennies to buy and you can refill the toner cartridges so it costs pennies to run too

[gingerjedi]

You'd think Xerox would make a decent printer wouldn't you? From my experience anything below £500 must be made by some subsidiary as they are utter sh*t, they work better when all the superfluous bits have broken off... once you've found them all from numerous paper jams.

Lexmark have always been good mind.

[PRC1964]

I bought a little Canon laser printer about 10 years ago.

It's never gone wrong and the toner lasts for years despite being used to print off endless school projects.

In the real office it's all HP kit apart from one Kyocera for colour.

[Fred Bloggs]

Go for HP. Quality kit. I had a Brother fail 2 days out of warranty. They said "tough luck". I'll not buy any more Brother kit. Presently I have 3 HP's and all are very good machines.

[s2budd]

HP Laserjet

Agreed with above. HP Laserjet 4, 4+ or 4M from ebay or other source.
ink costs about £50 - £70 a pop but lasts for years.

[FiveTimes]

I have a brother MFC465, great bit of kit and the compatible cartridges are quite cheap.

[darmstadt]

I have a little HP Laserjet which I haven't put toner in for 2 years and I use it weekly, well surprised.

[sasguru]

Tight as ever.

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It's how i became a real millionaire, innit?

[DimPrawn]

In particular, taking into account ongoing costs (toner etc) which is the best printer to have in the home.

Tight as ever.

Live a little. Stop crying real tears evertime you print a page.

I recommend Brother printers.