Technology Good Basic Printer

[Llenroc]

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I'm looking for a decent printer under $100. Black and white and color documents. Photos not necessary. Recommendations?

Something with cheap cartridges would be a plus too. 👍

 

[16846]

Any inkjet should do the trick. For general printing any of the larger companies produce a decent product, I would however avoid Lexmark, I have seen more of that companies printers go to hell than any other.

 

[tinman831]

Any inkjet should do the trick. For general printing any of the larger companies produce a decent product, I would however avoid Lexmark, I have seen more of that companies printers go to hell than any other.

For the price of a new ink cartridge, you could just replace the printer with a new lexmark thats on sale.

 

[nlax30]

Do you really need color? If not just get a basic laser printer. I found a Samsung for right under $100 a couple years ago and it's a lot cheaper to print than an ink jet, plus it doubles as a copier.

If you do need to print color occasionally then maybe look into getting a laser printer for most printing and then just a basic color inkjet for those times when you need color. You could probably get both for around $150, definitely under $200.

 

[marithe18]

My mom bought me a new printer that I can use for my freshman college school works.

Our new printer's brand is Brother, it is nice because you can connect it into a local area network and we (me, my brother and my mom) can print on it through connecting to lan connection.

We bought it for a price of 120USD. It's ink cartridges are really affordable too. It also comes with a xerox and scanner. 🙂

 

[movax]

Go laser - Brother makes sub $150 lasers that are very nice and compact. The quality/sharpness of plain text printing, combined with lack of clogging/etc that inkjets suffer makes it completely worth it.

I picked up a HP LaserJet 4000 off Craigslist for $25 - complete with a duplexer & JetDirect card, so I can auto-two side print. Its huge yes, but LaserJet 4000s will still be printing long after the apocalypse. (Same holds true for the LJ 4 and 4+).

 

[16846]

...Its huge yes, but LaserJet 4000s will still be printing long after the apocalypse. (Same holds true for the LJ 4 and 4+).

Too true, my 'rents have a 4L I gave them, it's 15 years old and still works just fine.