recommend me a home laser printer, or?

[HotJambalaya]

I very rarely have to print anything, but every single time I do, my ink has basically dried out. Im running an HP Envy 5540, with scanner and wifi printing, all of which is I assume standard now.

So basically Ive been told that with a laser printer the ink will never run dry, so even with my 3x a year printing, I should be totally fine. Suggestions?

[JulianHJ]

In my experience you can't go too far wrong with an HP, Samsung or Brother.

[Evanivitch]

Brother has worked well for us. Used sporadically but 100% better than the inkjet that gave us so much trouble before.

[goldar]

Buy the cheapest laser you can get your hands on. I bought a Samsung model brand new for £50. It does what I need to an excellent standard, and in 4 years the toner has only been replaced once.

[Riley Blue]

Another vote for Brother. Ours has been 100% reliable for eight years.

[addams]

Exact same situation for me.

I bought an HP Laserjet (can't remember the model) and no complaints at all.
Have also used Brother at work, so either make would be good IMO.

[number2]

Definitely go laser. Toner will last forever (not really, but long enough) with your occasional printing and it's a lot faster than ink jet.

When you have a printer you'll use it more than you think though.

I've a multi function Xerox. £350 I think it was.

Scan to email function is useful as is the copier function.

Edit: this one https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/xerox-workce...

Edited by number2 on Saturday 24th September 16:07

[annodomini2]

Find an office supplies auction, just check the toner costs before you bid.

[number2]

We're reasonably heavy users and paid £213 for a 15,000 page black toner cartridge when the original part filled one ended. That's been in since November 2020 and still going strong.

For low use though a toner will last a v long time.

[extraT]

I came on to post for advice about this very problem so sorry for the highjack and perhaps this will help you OP

I have a brother inkjet which is superb, however we are heavy printers and the costs are slowly becoming uneconomical / difficult to swallow.

In a shop today, the guy recommended an Epson EcoTank 3850. It seems these run on little bottles of ink rather than cartridges and can be replaced cheaply (I live in Austria so one bottle cost about €12). The claim on the box is the black ink prints about 14,000 pages and colour about 5,000 - and the sales guy also said the reality will not be far off. Price of the printer was 450€ with ink included.

Does anyone have any experience with an ecotank printer?

[speedchick]

extraT said:

I came on to post for advice about this very problem so sorry for the highjack and perhaps this will help you OP

I have a brother inkjet which is superb, however we are heavy printers and the costs are slowly becoming uneconomical / difficult to swallow.

In a shop today, the guy recommended an Epson EcoTank 3850. It seems these run on little bottles of ink rather than cartridges and can be replaced cheaply (I live in Austria so one bottle cost about €12). The claim on the box is the black ink prints about 14,000 pages and colour about 5,000 - and the sales guy also said the reality will not be far off. Price of the printer was 450€ with ink included.

Does anyone have any experience with an ecotank printer?

I've just bought an eco tank, but it was bought as a sublimation printer so doesn't have regular Epson ink. Not used it much (it only arrived Wednesday and I've been too ill since). But filling it up was a doddle and connecting it to the WiFi was easy and my desktop found it straight away without having to install the drivers. Planning to give it a serious work out tomorrow.

[sgrimshaw]

JulianHJ said:

In my experience you can't go too far wrong with an HP, Samsung or Brother.

Sadly, Samsung sold its printer business to HP a good few years ago.

[clockworks]

I had a cheap Samsung laser for nearly 10 years, only got rid of it because Apple stopped providing drivers for it, so it wouldn't work on my iMac after an OS upgrade. Replaced with a cheap Brother laser about 6 years ago.

Whatever you buy, make sure you can get generic print cartridges or toner refills for it.

[boxedin]

A Brother laser printer, get a wireless enabled one. For the model I have, they're still providing updated drivers some 8+ years later. It's supported everything I've thrown at it, windows, linux, android. I don't know about recent mac/ios. I stopped using them a few years ago.

[DanL]

For exactly this reason I (now) have a Samsung ML-2168 laser jet. It was in or around the cheapest reasonable looking one Currys had at the time, and it’s still working great a few years later.