Canon Printer in Aldi

[VicParticipant @vic]

I used to buy paper for a couple of places I worked at. I chose a Dutch company called Océ to supply and maintain mono copiers and often used to use their branded copier paper when the price was competitive. Canon bought out Océ about nine years ago and the paper was rebranded Canon Océ. The Océ was dropped from the packaging some time ago. Most of the stuff used in the copiers/printers was 80gsm but I used to buy heavier stuff up to 300gsm for special jobs. I prefer 90/100 gsm for home use and Canon Top Colour Zero is pretty good.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

**LINK**

John Lewis have a Canon all in one printer for £5 more than the Aldi offering, two year warranty included. Just a thought!

Have to say that I have no personal experience of Canon printers.

Link to product at the top.

Edited By V8Eng on 12/09/2018 22:09:44

[DalboyParticipant @dalboy]

Posted by Neil Wyatt on 12/09/2018 10:57:00:

How strange. This thread seems to be attracting a gentle flow of spammers trying to seed links to printer support sites.

Easy to stop, but I'm curious as to why they are doing this!

Neil

Nothing new Neil. I have the same thing happening on the sister site Getwoodworking. The other favourite is the first post disguised as an answer to a very old post but with links.

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Posted by not done it yet on 12/09/2018 08:50:02:

I would buy another laser printer, but she wants something more easily portable…

If all you want is a printer (not multifunction) HP Laserjet Pro M15w is pretty small and light, rivalling similar inkjet printers. Right now it's on special here (S.Ontario Canada) in Staples for $69.99 (about £40 odd). Don't know about the UK though.

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Inkjet is still by far the cheapest way to get a large (13 x 18) printer complete with commensurately large scanner. Both functions are unbelievably useful when you need them (workshop drawings etc).

I got my HP Officejet 7612 a couple of years back at a decent clearance price (~ CDN$100 or so I think). The biggest problem was finding somewhere to put it in the den (you always can though).

[JonParticipant @jon]

Done a bit of searching and cant find the inflated number of prints your supposed to get with these.
All producers inflate the number of prints.

What i would suggest is have a look at a few unhappy customers reports https://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B01J3B3HJW/ref=acr_dpx_hist_1?ie=UTF8&filterByStar=one_star&showViewpoints=0

One even mentions lack of prints and the cost of cartridges is more than a printer. Dont come with cartride or USB lead so factor that in.

Have had many printers over the years non worse than HP since the chip in the cartridge. Refills will only last so long as well, still have a use by date.

So far think i was early in the act going for Epson ET2550, still using supplied inks 2 years on not even 1/4 used. Done well in excess of 2 years accounts prints about 1200 pages text and around 60 full colour prints all for £170.
The way you have to look at it is similar printer approx £90 but how much will it cost to do X amounts of prints. Likely the extra for the Epson will pay for itself within 12 months. HP's and Cannons bled me dry in the past as did Brother MFC laser.

[Nick Clarke 3Participant @nickclarke3]

Posted by Jon on 13/09/2018 19:58:16:

HP's and Cannons bled me dry in the past as did Brother MFC laser.

The worst I ever came across were Texas Laser printers (also badges as QMS I think) that had time expiry devices so after so many weeks a drum or a waste toner bottle or a toner tank had to be replaced whether you had done 1 or a thousand prints. They soon went in the skip!

[Mark RandParticipant @markrand96270]

In 2006, I rescued an abandoned HP laserjet 4000 from one of our sites that had already closed when I went to recover some other computer equipment for our site (ME/trains link:- The site that closed had been the Metro Cammell works at Washwood Heath in Birmingham ). I have bought a new toner cartridge for it, but I don't know if I'll live long enough to fit it.

[Enough!Participant @enough]

Going back some years …. I was always a fan of Epson inkjets. The big draw was their printheads which was universally acknowledged to be the best in the business (and highly tied up with patents). Among other things, Epson had the ink nozzles within the printhead, the ink supply being a simple tank. Others, such as Canon, had theirs within the cartridge making for a somewhat more complicated cartridge. Epson could make their nozzles much finer with consequent better output.

But therein lay the Achilles-Heel of the Epson. Unless the printer was used regularly, those nozzles would clog oh so easily. There were all kinds of home-brew recipes for clearing the blockage (including soaking in window cleaner) but in my experience, they failed far more often than they worked. You could buy a replacement printhead but it cost more than the price of a new printer.

Canon's were limited to replacing the cartridge if the same problem occurred but they were less susceptible to it anyway.

After going through 3 Epsons that way I gave up on them, reasoning that they just weren't suitable for my style of usage. I still think they were the best printer though if your usage was sufficient.

As I said, that was some years ago. I wonder if that situation has changed today.

[JonParticipant @jon]

Used to get quality prints from an old 94 ish Cannon until it the unit spewed ink every where.

Think any printer do some reasearch however new.
I even looked at the cheapy mono lasers think were £85 but they only come with a starter toner same with the colour around £129. New colour toner around £200! Which then makes that £129 printer £329 see the point.

Touch wood in two years may be more the ET2550 is superb for home and or small business use, it will pay for itself within 12 months of ownership £170 at the time discounted special offer when they first came out. Its eqivalent to an £80-90 printer whereby your stung on the cartridges and lack of prints hence cost to run.

One HP i had i got 12 colour A4 prints from the cartridges, in the info stated around 60-70. 336 – 40 text black and white it gets expensive quick at way over £30 a cartridge.

[V8EngParticipant @v8eng]

I have been using an HP Envy 4504 all in one for about three years no problems with paper handling and good print quality.

The cartridges (301) have the print head built in and I’ve never had any problems with that system, life is too short to count pages but I print a lot of plain text A4 plus glossy photos and the cartridges seem to last a long time.

 

Edited By V8Eng on 14/09/2018 21:39:41

[VicParticipant @vic]

We bought a Brother colour laser for non photo printing as you can top up the toner cartridges instead of buying new ones. The only problem is the network card in it’s gone wonky so we can no longer print to it wirelessly, it worked just fine until the warranty ran out … I think we’ll try a Canon colour laser next, the Canon I used to use at work worked flawlessly but then it did cost over £10K.

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