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All you need to do is buy from a business that doesn't depend on fraud. Samsung make very nice and cheap black & white laser printers. I've bought two over the
by PieterH 10y ago
All you need to do is buy from a business that doesn't depend on fraud. Samsung make very nice and cheap black & white laser printers. I've bought two over the last few years, around $70. I see one on Amazon for $75 that has wifi printing as well), comes with a cartridge that lasted me 2-3 years and some thousands of pages, and replacement cartridges are $60 for branded ones, less than half that for generics. The printer is tiny, quiet, fast, etc. I can't believe people still buy anything else, after all we don't print photos at home much anymore, do we?
There are other manufacturers that do the same kind of model.
Just avoid HP and (in my experience) Canon. Laser is the way to go.
- smacktoward 10y agoGood news! HP just bought Samsung's printer business. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10677/hp-acquire-samsung-printer-business http://www.anandtech.com/show/10677/hp-acquire-samsung-print...
- PieterH 10y agoSigh. Well, HP is doing their best to bring us into the paperless future, I suppose. Nice of them.
- jws 10y agoThere is still Brother. They make nice, inexpensive black and white laser printers.
- aruggirello 10y agoPlus they have excellent support for Linux with every single printer model - once you install their drivers.
- MrTonyD 10y ago+1 for the Brother monochrome lasers. I have two of their 2270dw printers that I bought after throwing away my three HP printers (after I couldn't make an important print out due to cartridge time-outs). Best thing I ever did. Now I'm both saving money and getting reliable prints.
- combatentropy 10y agoDell makes printers. Black-and-white laser printers from $100, color lasers from $200.
- bArray 10y agoThe cost of the ink should in theory be next to nothing. You can buy ink from our local pound shop and mess around with drilling holes in your cartridges and hoping nothing goes wrong. A thousand pages in the UK could cost (by my estimates) about £5 to print. A cheap pack of 500 sheets is £2 and a large bottle of ink is £1.
- consto 10y agoHP buys Samsung's $1bn printer business http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37337989 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37337989 Looks like Samsung won't be making "very nice and cheap black & white laser printers" for much longer.
- tdkl 10y agoThere's also Xerox apparently, cousin got a B&W laser[1] with WiFi for 55€. Original toner is around that price, but third party toner with warranty is 20-30€. [1] http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/laser-printers/phaser-3020/enil.html http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/laser-printers/phaser-3...