I agree!My Canon cost me less than £100. Just two sets of cartridges cost me £112. Perhaps they sell the printers at cost, to create a market for profitable refills.
I tried non Canon inks but one very nice A4 photo print that my wife's sister hung in her living room faded within about 6 months. Now the machine gathers dust. Great results but intolerable running costs.
Gerry Winskill On 23/08/2011 12:27, Peter Dodds wrote:
Low cost ink replacement is a palindrome, Gerry. I have or have had as many as 6 printers connected to my PCs, because of my work, but nowadays, I rarely print my manuals - I supply them elctronically. I have looked at printers and ink a lot over the years therefore. I bought a printer (HP1000) from Staples 4 weeks ago for £19.99. It is brilliant. Very simple - absolutely no buttons apart from an on/off switch, fast and good quality for printing text and general graphics. I don't print photos - Boots can do it far cheaper. The printer replaces an HP5600 of which I once had two - excellent machines which lasted about 9 yers before I gave one away as supernumery last year, and the other one stopped accepting refilled cartridges about 2 months ago (but I suspect the cartridge refiller's stock of 56 and 57 cartridges were getting very tired after nine years of being recycled). Of course replacement cartridges for the HP1000 will cost twice the cost of the printer and more. As I said - a palindrome. Peter