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Title: Fed up - cost of Inkjet inks
Post by: Wordtaster on Wednesday 14 May 14 07:41 BST (UK)

Fed up with paying through the nose for those coloured inks and having less use for them these days, can anybody recommend a black only printer scanner?

Looking round it seems my only option is a laser printer but these seem rather bulky.

Cheers guys.

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: KGarrad on Wednesday 14 May 14 07:46 BST (UK)

Mine has a button to press for Black-and-white only?!

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: panda40 on Wednesday 14 May 14 07:46 BST (UK)

On your printer setting set it to print in black only. I then set it back to colour for the odd thing I need to print out.
Regards panda

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: Wordtaster on Wednesday 14 May 14 08:14 BST (UK)

Tried that and it gave no end of problems plus of course it 'insists' on having those coloured inks installed.

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: suey on Wednesday 14 May 14 08:25 BST (UK)

I can commiserate with you. I thought I was getting a good deal with an Epson D7400, (bankrupt stock ::) )   It's cost me more in ink than the darn thing cost.

Even when set to print in black only it still seems to use all the colours and for some reason known only to itself the magenta always goes first.

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 14 May 14 08:29 BST (UK)

You could try the small* Samsung  SL-M2022W/XEU monochrome  laser printer - only £59.99 at one well known computer store.  Other small ones are available but cost more.

Gadget

* 332 x 215 mm

PS - the Samsung all-in-one  Xpress M2070W is also monochrome but costs a bit more and is bigger  :-\

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: Flattybasher9 on Wednesday 14 May 14 08:30 BST (UK)

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Regards

Malky

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 14 May 14 08:40 BST (UK)

Ironically, I've always got spare in the black cartridges (LL Black and Matte Black and Photo Black for Epson R2400 A3+) - it's the cleaning out of the heads that uses up the inks! I buy cheap compatibles for most printing - most are excellent and cost very little if you buy in bulk.

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: Wordtaster on Wednesday 14 May 14 09:58 BST (UK)

Thanks guys, appreciated.

Title: Re: Fed up
Post by: alanmack on Wednesday 14 May 14 11:08 BST (UK)

I sympathise with your problem. You might try something of an alternative approach.

If it is webpages you are printing out Firefox has the Print Edit add-on that enables you to cut out all the coloured decorations etc that use up all the ink to leave just the part you want. Available free from the Mozilla site. There is I'm told an equivalent for Chrome too.

For other print out you could just print as a PDF and store it on your computer somewhere. A pseudo-printer which installs as if it were a printer creates these. Try CutePDF or my favourite PDFCreator. Again free software.