Alternative to Canon 4200

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I like my Canon 4200 very much - but it is too expensive to run.
Can anyone suggest a less costly, but almost as good, alternative?
I print about 5 A4 black text pages a day and an occasional colour photo.
Phil.
 
Phil said:
I like my Canon 4200 very much - but it is too expensive to run.
Can anyone suggest a less costly, but almost as good, alternative?
I print about 5 A4 black text pages a day and an occasional colour photo.
Phil.
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I have two suggestions. Either start refilling your 4200 cartridges or
buy an inexpensive laser printer for your black and white printing tasks.
 
I like my Canon 4200 very much - but it is too expensive to run.
Can anyone suggest a less costly, but almost as good, alternative?
I print about 5 A4 black text pages a day and an occasional colour photo.
Phil.
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I suggest a laser printer
 
ggreekx said:
I suggest a laser printer
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If you want the quality of color photos that your Canon ip4200 can produce,
you will have to stay with that printer and not a color laser. Refilling
these carts is very easy - it just takes time and a little practice to get
it right. You will reduce your cost from about US$14 per cart to about $1.
There is a bit of a learning curve, but it isn't rocket science! Since you
already own the printer and like it you might as well save the investment in
a new printer, save lots of money, and enjoy beating the system as well! I
don't know which inks you can buy in the UK, but MIS, Image specialist,
hobbicolors, and formulabs from alotofthings are all decent inks in the US.
Each vendor has refilling instructions, and the nifty-stuff forum has plenty
of information on techniques and tricks for refilling.
http://www.nifty-stuff.com/forum/
 
Burt said:
If you want the quality of color photos that your Canon ip4200 can
produce, you will have to stay with that printer and not a color laser.
Refilling these carts is very easy - it just takes time and a little
practice to get it right. You will reduce your cost from about US$14 per
cart to about $1. There is a bit of a learning curve, but it isn't rocket
science! Since you already own the printer and like it you might as well
save the investment in a new printer, save lots of money, and enjoy
beating the system as well! I don't know which inks you can buy in the
UK,
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Try your nearest Cartridge World

but MIS, Image specialist,
 
measekite said:
That sounds pretty cheap to run to me.
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How can thay sound pretty cheap? The printer uses more ink to keep it going than it uses to print! And the cost of the Canon cartridges is extortionate, i.e. exorbitant, grossly excessive.
 
I like my Canon 4200 very much - but it is too expensive to run.
Can anyone suggest a less costly, but almost as good, alternative?
I print about 5 A4 black text pages a day and an occasional colour photo.
Phil.
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Look,i have a canon i965 and a brother MF laser.
I always refilled my i965 and still works perfectly BUT i don't care
about printing photos ( ihave a selphy cp510 to do this)
There is no third-party inks (MAYBE only inksupply's archival epson
ink) that can give you the same longevity with the original carts.

If i were you i would buy a B/W laser printer for everyday prints
and keep running the canon with the original inks for photos or other
important color documents.
 
ggreekx said:
Look,i have a canon i965 and a brother MF laser.
I always refilled my i965 and still works perfectly BUT i don't care about
printing photos ( ihave a selphy cp510 to do this)
There is no third-party inks (MAYBE only inksupply's archival epson ink)
that can give you the same longevity with the original carts.

If i were you i would buy a B/W laser printer for everyday prints and
keep running the canon with the original inks for photos or other
important color documents.
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Inksupply's MIS inks for these canon printers are a very close match to
Canon OEM inks. If you don't need archival prints this ink, as well as
Formulabs from Alotofthings and Hobbicolors make very nice prints. My
prints with MIS inks have held up well framed on the wall under normal room
lighting for over three years. Same with prints in albums.
 
Because I own a Pixma and I know with that usage the ink cost is not that bad.

Phil Pickard wrote:

 



"measekite" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:A%[email protected]...



> That sounds pretty cheap to run to me.
How can thay sound pretty cheap? The printer uses more ink to keep it going than it uses to print! And the cost of the Canon cartridges is extortionate, i.e. exorbitant, grossly excessive.



 



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> Phil Pickard wrote:
>> I like my Canon 4200 very much - but it is too expensive to run.
>> Can anyone suggest a less costly, but almost as good, alternative?
>> I print about 5 A4 black text pages a day and an occasional colour photo.
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>>
 
ggreekx said:
Look,i have a canon i965 and a brother MF laser.
I always refilled my i965 and still works perfectly BUT i don't care
about printing photos ( ihave a selphy cp510 to do this)
There is no third-party inks (MAYBE only inksupply's archival epson
ink) that can give you the same longevity with the original carts.
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That is absolutely correct. OEM ink looks better also.
 
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