HP Printer ink

[Piff]

I guess it depends on how much printing you do.

My Canon inkjet (top quality photo printer) has 5 individual tanks. The main black one costs £9.69 delivered, and does 5500 pages of A4 text. Possibly a laser would be even cheaper, but I can live with being able to print 5.6 pages of text for 1p. The colour tanks are £7.89 each.

I'm with Bill - depends how much printing you do. I've got a canon A3 printer with seperate print tanks. The electronic bits built into the print heads get changed less frequently.
I use Tonik.co.uk for ink tanks & print heads and generally use their own brand ink tanks as I don't do much high grade printing. Their service is good and they have replaced any faulty items without question.

 

[Rory]

My FIL has a Canon printer - think it's an iP6600 - which uses 7 ink carts and it's a right pain, especially as he buys the cheapest possible and then calls on me to make it work, which means swapping chips and many levels of warning messages.

The carts don't seem to last 5 mins and with 7 of them one or more seems to need changing almost every time the printer is used. It blocked the print head the other day and new one was £40 - I thought I'd be able to get a whole printer for that these days but the prices seem to have bounced a little.

 

[Dryce]

It was almost cheaper to buy a new printer than to buy just the cartridges.

The manufacturers cottoned on to this and you get 'starter' cartridges with many new cheaper laser and inkjet printers.

I picked up a little HP printer recently that came with a cartridge with a note to say that it was rated at just 10 photo prints.

 

[BTB 500]

I must admit that I was pleasantly surprised to get a full set of cartridges with the Canon.

 

[ukcodger]

My FIL has a Canon printer - think it's an iP6600 - which uses 7 ink carts and it's a right pain, especially as he buys the cheapest possible and then calls on me to make it work, which means swapping chips and many levels of warning messages.

The carts don't seem to last 5 mins and with 7 of them one or more seems to need changing almost every time the printer is used. It blocked the print head the other day and new one was £40 - I thought I'd be able to get a whole printer for that these days but the prices seem to have bounced a little.

Same as mine Rory. 6 cartridges in the 6600. The point is, I only use original CLI 8 cartridges (£8.70 off the internet, delivered). I've never had a blockage, chip problem or anything other than perfect printing. In 2 years though I've got through 6 Cyan, 6 Photo Cyan, 7 Magenta, 9 Photo Magenta, 11 Yellow and 12 Black cartridges! That's a lot of money for someone.

 

[BTB 500]

I only use original CLI 8 cartridges (£8.70 off the internet, delivered).

Cheaper from 7dayshop.com. My last order

Date Ordered: Friday 21 November, 2008

Products
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1 x Canon CLI-8BK Black Inkjet Cartridge = £8.39
1 x Canon CLI-8M Magenta Inkjet Cartridge = £7.89
1 x Canon CLI-8C Cyan Inkjet Cartridge = £7.89
1 x Canon CLI-8Y Yellow Inkjet Cartridge = £7.89
1 x Canon PGI-5BK Black Inkjet Cartridge - Large 26ml capacity = £9.69
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Sub-Total: £41.75
Total: £41.75

That includes P&P. As mentioned, there is no VAT payable.