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I always buy Epsom printers,scanners and always buy their inks but not their paper.
I tried Canon smaller but image was poor
 
oh i see, i found them both in the catalouge and it seems the dell is better as it has a card reader and is slightly faster but a tiny bit bigger. same picture qality for both but which is cheaper on ink? i dont think dell make ink do they?
 
HP will be the more mass produced as will their inks including the cartridge world type replacements and the unbranded carts.

Picture quality and cheap inks - Epsom
Day to day quality and mass availablity of inks - HP
 
im sort of swayed with the dell at the moment though because it is faster and has a card reader but the inks look more expensive from wha i can see, picture dpi is the same though
 
The specs are almost meaningless. The really hard things for a printer to do, like printing a page of pure black are never easy to find.

Having had two Dell laser printers for the family business I have to say I was disappointed. The drivers used to nag you about going to dell to buy refills, and they didn't last very well considering they were designed for commercial use.

We also used to use HPs; the LaserJet 1100 and 4p were both brilliant. But again, the quality of more recent HP stuff is a bit suspect. Never, ever buy an HP laptop, spares are a nightmare.

Our most recent purchase was a Brother. It's a cracking little printer, feels much more expensive than the ones we had before, prints well and in the last few months has given no trouble. Cheaper to run too.
 
I wouldn't buy either of them personally - how much durability and build quality do you think that you'll get for fifty quid, especially with these all-in-one devices? Not a lot, that's how much.

HP inksets are probably the most expensive of the major manufacturers too.
I'd go for Epson personally and just a dedicated printer, not one of these printer/scanner/copier things. Well, not a fifty quid one anyway..... :roll:
 
I had a Dell 720 which was basically a rebadged Lexmark Z55 (I think). Inks were horrifically expensive.
 
we already have a dedicated printer but it doesnt work on the mrs windows 7 laptop :roll: with regard to build quality, they do have a 3 year warranty i think and it wont be used everyday, probably more like evry week. with the dell the inks are looking like £30 and the hp ones a bit less for a colour and a black
 
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