help finding home printer/scanner

alterintel · Mar 27, 2015

Hi.
I have been researching this for days. I need a home printer with scanning ability. I don't need the latest state of the art in photo processing, or lots of bells and whistles. I need something affordable and a vital part of this is the price of the ink cartridges. I know some companies make cartridge substitutions at a lower price or 'fill your own cartridge' kits. Some of those don't even work with my current printer. The price of the printer's ink cartridge is vital to the equation. I thought comparing cartridge prices would be easy on the internet, but the opposite seems to be the case. So I am hoping someone here can help. My current hp printer [no scanning] rips me off for $24 for a cartridge every few months. I was told Kodak keeps its cartridge prices low, but then found out it was draining color cartridge ink while printing black and white. To me this whole printer thing is a scam. I should add that I have a very old computer [dell/xp] and one that is about a year and a half old, [dell/windows 7] and I would like to use the new printer with both. Don't know enough to know if that is feasible.
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alterintel · Mar 31, 2015

Thanks Joe Ray. You are the only one who responded. Would appreciate hearing any other ideas so as to have more than one choice.
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Eldon · Apr 1, 2015

The all-in-one printer suggested by JoeRay12 is an excellent choice. It's difficult to suggest an alternative because we don't live in the same country. Prior to buying a printer, check the price of cartridges. And (in your situation) whether it supports Windows XP. If not, check if the manufacturer has drivers for Windows XP.

DavidGP · Apr 1, 2015

Hi

I cannot fault the suggestion of the Canon printer MG5550 as its a good all rounder, and plus point is it uses individual inks unlike in the main the HP all in ones (YMC) that cost a lot so if you use a lot of cyan for instance you only need in the cannon to change the cyan cartridge but in an all in one YMC cart, you have to change the whole thing.

Other pros are its wifi connected, con is a large-ish footprint, but depends on what space you have to locate a printer.

I do agree with Eldon, check driver support, but in Windows 7 you should be fine with most modern ones if not all.

alterintel · Apr 4, 2015

Well, thanks everyone for your suggestions. I neglected in my original post to say that I have a cable connection and can't use a wireless. So I posted about that right after JoeRay's post. I don't know what happened as I thought the post went thru but I see that it did not. I am sorry.
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Eldon · Apr 5, 2015

alterintel said: ↑

I neglected in my original post to say that I have a cable connection and can't use a wireless.
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Yes you can. All you need is a Bluetooth transceiver (dongle) that plugs into a USB port - it's probably supplied with the printer.
How do you use a cable-connected printer with 2 PCs? Are they connected via a LAN cable?

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