Printer recommendation?

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Dan

Hi,

I'm looking for a new printer - I own a graphic design business, and am
regularly priting full-colour & photo documents, as well as text documents,
so I'll need something that works well all around.

Ideally, I want to keep running costs (ink) down to a minimum, so a great
printer with expensive ink wouldn't be an option. I have around £150 to
spend.

Can anyone recommend a decent printer (available to purchase in the UK)?

Thanks
Dan.
 
I hate replying to my own posts, but I've been looking at the Canon Bubble
Jet i865... any good?
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For an all around printer that is good at photos and office documents, the
Canon i865 is very hard to beat. It has a very low ink cost, refill and
third party ink is readily available. As an added plus, an auto-duplexer and
auxilliary paper tray/feeder are available to increase it's usefulness as an
office printer. You can read a good review of it at Tom's Hardware guide and
Photo-i.co.uk

It's also an extremely fast printer. At least twice as fast as any other
inkjet printer. Somthing to consider though, Canon has a multifunction
printer/scanner/copier/fax machine that uses the same print engine. So you
would get more functionality for only slightly higher price and I think that
it is actually less expensive than the i865 if you are considering the
duplexer and extra paper feeder. The unit I would recommend you look at is
the MP730 Photo. Here's the link to Canon's
site:

http://www.canon.co.uk/For_Home/Product_Finder/Multifunctionals/Multifunctiona
ls/SmartBase_MP730/index.asp?ComponentID=33935&SourcePageID=26562#1

Hope this helps.
 
Chris said:
For an all around printer that is good at photos and office
documents, the Canon i865 is very hard to beat. It has a very low
ink cost, refill and third party ink is readily available.
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Superb - will most probably be better than my Epson C40UX which seems to
have gone down the pan!
As an added plus, an auto-duplexer and auxilliary paper tray/feeder are
available to increase it's usefulness as an office printer.
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Probably wouldn't need such features as the printer would only really be
used by me.
You can read a good review of it at Tom's Hardware guide and Photo-i.co.uk
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Superb - got 94% at Photo-i, so must be decent!
It's also an extremely fast printer. At least twice as fast as any
other inkjet printer. Somthing to consider though, Canon has a
multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax machine that uses the same
print engine. So you would get more functionality for only slightly
higher price and I think that it is actually less expensive than the
i865 if you are considering the duplexer and extra paper feeder.
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I can only find the MP730 for £300, which is a bit much for what I need.
I've got a scanner & fax machine - so I think the i865 will do the job fine.
Hope this helps.
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Very much so - cheers.
 
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