Seeking inexpensive printer with large ink capacity.

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Don't care much about quality, just don't want to have to buy new ink
all the time. I'd like to try and re-ink the cartridges myself, as I
have done this in the past with decent results, so I wouldn't want a
printer that prevents this.
Thanks in advance.
 
montygram said:
Don't care much about quality, just don't want to have to buy new ink
all the time. I'd like to try and re-ink the cartridges myself, as I
have done this in the past with decent results, so I wouldn't want a
printer that prevents this.
Thanks in advance.
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This might not be a common suggestion but I bought a used Canon N2000
printer for $150 off ebay and use it heavily for half size Autocad
drawings. It also prints very good photos. The ink cartridges for it
are 80ml for color and a whopping 130ml for black. This compares to
11ml, I believe, for Canon's BCI-6/3 cartridges. Considering I can get
compatible N2000 cartridges for less than $20 each it is quite an
economical printer. Also, time between cartridge swaps is very long.
Another good thing is the printer head on the N2000 is rated at 50,000
sheets and it prints on up to 13"x19" paper.
 
Don't care much about quality, just don't want to have to buy new ink
all the time. I'd like to try and re-ink the cartridges myself, as I
have done this in the past with decent results, so I wouldn't want a
printer that prevents this.
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In a laser the old panasonic 4450i... very old beast of a laser that
took about 1 pint of toner under the lid. Very slick and in a pinch
you could toss in the cup of waste toner. The quality would suffer
somewhat but it's better than nothing. we're talking 5000 pages per
bottle of toner typicaly $50 at office depot, or less if you went with
copy toner.

TI microlaser. Not so big, but could take raw toner in a pinch. The
offical system to detect new toner was a fuse that gets blown when
replacing the cartridge.

Older canons inkjets that took the bc-02 to bc-20 bc-10 big black
cartridge. BJC-2000 IIRC. $30ish per 900pages OEM bc-20 cartridge,
and could be drilled and refilled if needed. Larger than even the HP
#45a but you remove the color tanks to accept this big black.

HPs that took the #45A cartridge. 42ml IIRC and 833 pages.
ecconomical if you buy OEM. Quality very good for text. Easy enough
to find at second hand stores.

Canon ip3000/4000/5000 and even the newer ip4200/ip5200. 25ml black
500pages or so. Not the bigest but easy to refill. very good for
text. These are still sold new, though the 3000/4000/5000 are harder
to find.
 
montygram said:
Don't care much about quality, just don't want to have to buy new ink
all the time. I'd like to try and re-ink the cartridges myself, as I
have done this in the past with decent results, so I wouldn't want a
printer that prevents this.
Thanks in advance.
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If you're really planning on doing a LOT of printing then you could do
worse than looking at CIS kits as well. I'll not bang on about it though
as I've mentioned if often enough..

Check http://www.continuousink.info/ if you'd like a few pointers and info.
 
Don't care much about quality, just don't want to have to buy new ink
all the time. I'd like to try and re-ink the cartridges myself, as I
have done this in the past with decent results, so I wouldn't want a
printer that prevents this.
Thanks in advance.
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Just joined this newsgroup and caught this message: The closest you'll
get to laser costs with an inkjet is with a HP 1100D/1200D/DTN/DTW ;
Unfortunately, these seem to be discontinued. They come with starter
cartridges of 12/12/12/28ml of CMY K, and the 'full' cartridges are
28/28/28/69ml (the HP #11 (CMY) and #10 (K) ) The cartridges run about
$30-35 each. The Ds come with 1 150 sheet paper tray and the DTN/Ws
come with a network jack (W is wireless) and a second, 250 sheet paper
tray.

These printers are pretty huge for inkjets. They're for business use -
photos look okay, but aren't that great, and the pigment black with
the dye CMY makes gloss paper dull. They have separate printheads.
There's a new HP out now with a totally different model number that
takes 'big' cartridges, but smaller than these (I believe 18ml for
color and 59ml for black) ; Staples has the 1200D on clearance right
now, while Office Depot has the 1200DTN at regular price still. I
bought the 1100D on clearance and have been very happy with it
overall, but the bottom margin is rather large, and I've found that
for printing brochures, it's inconvenient because one panel of each
side will be crushed away from the edge unless you print two panels,
then turn the paper around to print the third one (i.e. have to run
the paper through the printer 4x). One of the questions I'm going to
put in a separate thread is if anyone has the 1200D series and if the
bottom margin is smaller. As a general purpose office printer for
massive document printing, etc, it's great, and /incredibly/ cheap to
run. Also, the cartridges are one of the few HPs that are rather easy
to refill, though they can't be reset (they'll always show 0% unless
you buy new chips for them). I haven't started refilling yet, as I've
still not gone down past the 50% mark for any of the colors and I have
two extra sets for it.

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http://www.FenrirOnline.com

Computer services, custom metal etching,
arts, crafts, and much more.
 
If you're really planning on doing a LOT of printing then you could do
worse than looking at CIS kits as well. I'll not bang on about it though
as I've mentioned if often enough..
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I'm not sure if i'd agree 100%. I'm all for refilling and i'm all for
refilling, and i'm all for builk ink and CIS kits... but I gotta say
assuming B&W laser is the ticket. By design it handels huge bulk jobs,
capasity is in the thousands of pages range typicaly speaking, and is
more reliable. CIS kits are cool for those who are doing color prints
and just gotta have ink, that's reasonable... but given the choice
between a retrofit and designed to do it in the first place, i'd lean
tward designed to do it.
 
zakezuke said:
I'm not sure if i'd agree 100%. I'm all for refilling and i'm all for
refilling, and i'm all for builk ink and CIS kits... but I gotta say
assuming B&W laser is the ticket. By design it handels huge bulk jobs,
capasity is in the thousands of pages range typicaly speaking, and is
more reliable. CIS kits are cool for those who are doing color prints
and just gotta have ink, that's reasonable... but given the choice
between a retrofit and designed to do it in the first place, i'd lean
tward designed to do it.
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You're right... if someone wanted to go for black and white I'd ask why
they were looking at inkjets too..

All good points... I know I'm somewhat biased but I yep.. I'd agree...
 
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