New Printer Needed ASAP

Good afternoon everyone my Canon MG6450 has just gone retired and I really need a new one ASAP so Currys have some good deals as tomorrow is Black Friday any suggestions would really be of some help to woo,thank you

 

@silu many thanks for your lovely post,it is very much appreciated,with the greatest respect to you my dear friend there are no such beings as a typical women,so I shall go to Currys tomorrow and look for a printer that is not to big and is black in colour

 

Avoid very cheap printers, they are often sold with "start-up" or "setup" cartridges that contain tiny amounts of ink and buying full sized replacement cartridges can cost more than the printer.

If you do lots of printing then have a think about HP Printers and use their Instant Ink service - it will work out cheaper. But if you only print a few pages every month then go for a printer that takes cheaper cartridges, Brother or Epsom.

Make sure it has 4 separate cartridges for the 3 primary colours and black because then if one colour runs out you only replace that one cartridge at a time.

 

Are you wanting to print at photo quality @wiseowl?

HP were always my go-to printer, but as has been mentioned above they have locked their printers to only take genuine HP cartridges which cost a fortune. I am currently running an Epson 760 which so far has been pretty good - works flawlessly on wi-fi, and non-genuine cartridges aren't too expensive for it. It isn't a cheap option though.

 

Good evening and thank you @fat controller they have them in Argos for £99.99p
Epson Expression Photo XP-760

Thanks @Jack McHammocklashing I will have a look

 

That is a bargain @wiseowl - I think I paid £160 for mine. The photo quality is remarkably good, and the scanner on it is excellent (it is the first one I have had that is capable of scanning and copying Mrs C's cross stitch patterns, and not losing any of the symbols or gridlines).

 

I don't use my Epson for printing photos so don't know about that but it's an old flatbed scanner/printer that has given good service for many years. Can't say how much it costs as we never seem to have to pay for our computer type equipment.

Ours has the three colour and one black cartridges and we buy non-Epson cartridges on the net very cheaply. They work out at less than a £1 per cartridge and, I think, they usually contain 35ml but are cheap even if they're 19ml. Never had a problem with them.

FYI:- it is recommended that you don't turn off printers as, if you do, most of them do an automatic head cleaning when turned back on. Apparently, tests were done, they can use up to a third of the ink over the lifetime of the cartridge. That also fills up the thingy (technical term) that contains the ink that was used for it.

 

Good afternoon @fat controller and all my other friends and thank you for all your sound advice and help.its very much appreciated my friends
After much deliberation and looking at 200 printers(on line and at Currys) I decided to purchase this Epsome printer.,I went to Argos after reserving the printer I had decided on (2016 manufactered) stood patently waiting for my number to appear about 20 minutes and there it was in a beautiful box,and then I noticed that it was another Epsom model (2015) the manager said that the 645 was not in stock so they had replaced my order with another model which they can do on occaisions,I said thank you and then went to Currys,where Canon salesperson accosted yours truly for 20 minutes,but alls well that ends well and now it is all set up Wi Fi and all