Need a new printer

[TinaRoyal]

Hi Kimbrey,

The HP Printers UK telephone number is 0207 660 6027.  They will give you all the help that you need.

They can take over your printer remotely and download anything that may be required.

Regards,

Tina.

[Kimbrey]

 Thanks Tina

Will ring them now

Kim

[ThrelfallYorky]

(Little voice) I've just replaced an HP that'd finally started to be unreliable with a Canon.... and it never seems to know if it's scanning or printing.... nor do I until it's done it.
Wish I'd consulted here...

[Gallicrow]

I've gone through many, many printers over the last 20 years and the best of the bunch is probably HP. The worst (Lexmark aside, hopefully no-one would consider getting one of those!) is Kodak. Canon can be good, but tend to break quite easily.

Last year there was an offer on the HP Envy 6234 which meant that it cost just £20, which included a free trial of HP Instant Ink for six months or so!

For my purposes, HP Instant Ink was a complete pain and I unsubscribed as soon as the free trial was over. I (or rather my wife) occasionally needs to do a lot of printing in a short space of time and this doesn't suit any of the Instant Ink packages.

Now I just buy the cartridges myself, which are eye-wateringly expensive (around £50 for a twin-pack of the extra large colour and b&w cartridges if you shop around) but I prefer that to worrying about whether I've exceeded my monthly printing allowance and will be charged an arm, a leg and probably a kidney or two for a few extra pages that I happened to need that month.

The printer itself is perfectly fine, it handles duplex well. The scanner on it can be temperamental, I had real problems with it whilst on Instant Ink and these seem to have disappeared when I unsubscribed, but perhaps a Windows 10 update fixed the driver. Who knows.

[Calverley Lad]

Could it be a case of 'bank details required'.

[Ian Nelson]

Am I the only one on the planet who refills his own cartridges with a selection of Refill packs from the £ Store and Tesco.   I'm currently on my 3rd Canon and I've found it cheaper to buy the special offer packages from Currys or Tesco for around £30 as it's cheaper than buying replacement cartridges.  I print many photos and printed off 120 copies of my self-published novella at 128 pages + a glossy outer jacket with £2 worth of ink.  OK! I spilt some on the carpet and had to buy a rug to cover the blobs, but you can't cry over spilt ink!  ( my spellchecker thinks that should be 'spilled' but then it's not very West of Scotland, I think).