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My printer appears to be giving up the ghost, can anyone recommend one for around £100 that'll do reasonable pic printing. I'll still go to a shop for the best stuff...

Around £100 as I have to convince SWMBO to agree!

 THIS ONE  (http://www.comet.co.uk/shopcomet/product/601110/EPSON-P50) will do a very good job well in budget

I bought one of those a couple of months ago and highly recommend it. Super simple to use as it's totally basic with no frills. I'm really pleased with the output.

Is it good on ink refill costs and economy? Once bought a lexmark I though was cheap until I was buy printer ink every 5 minutes...

Needed some ink in a hurry for my old Epson Photo 895 a while back, and noticed it was going to cost me about £40 for a set in PC world.  ::) 

Then I noticed they had a special offer on a Epson SX105 all in one printer / Scanner / copier for £29.00.  :)  To be honest as I only do the odd print for ourselves and family etc, I thought I'd give it a try.   I was quite impressed with the prints, better than my old photo printer.

Has three individual colour inks (about £17-£18 a set)  and about £6-£7 for the black, or individual colours.   Saved me a load of space on my desktop as my scanner has now gone.  And can be used as a copier for letters photos etc without even turning computer on.

Probably not up to everyone's standards, but it does me fine.  I nearly bought two.  :D     

The trouble is, it's actually harder to work true costs out when you use a number of different colour cartridges. I've done a lot of printing since i bought mine and as expected yellow goes first by a long way followed by light cyan and light magenta - magenta and cyan last a long time and the black cartridge is only just getting empty. I've found a couple of post free on line suppliers. Full set is around £48 but in practice because of the different amounts used you tend to only need a couple at a time. Because I'm currently doing things like calendars and notebooks I've just bought some compatibles from the same company which cost about £3.50 each. As I said, I'm really impressed by the P50 with regard to print quality. Even on standard photo quality I'm getting results i prefer to the ones I got from Photobox - mostly can't tell the difference between standard and best. I'm sure there are a lot of even better printers out there but for the price it's been brilliant.

Quote from: magicrhodes on November 12, 2009, 09:13:15 AM
Is it good on ink refill costs and economy? Once bought a lexmark I though was cheap until I was buy printer ink every 5 minutes...

A word from the wise... never buy Lexmark  ;)  They have recently introduced single ink carts, but their business model is to sell the printer at a loss and make their profit on the ink cart sales