broke my brother printer which ticked all the above boxes ( needed tape round colour cartridges when empty to allow B+W printing to continue. don’t need anything fancy
anyone know of something suitable
thanks in advance
bill

Get a laser printer.

Seriously, it’s not much more than an inkjet and is much cheaper to run, and a thousand times more reliable.

Get a laser printer.

+1. You’d be mad to get an inkjet for what you need.

I can source a new Canon laser for not much money if you want. Fifty quid, say? I’ll get the exact model tomorrow.

We’ve had one of these for the past 8 months –
Brother HL-1110
Comes with a 700 page ‘starter’ cartridge

After that you can buy 4 x 1000 Page toners for £18.99 from here –
Aftermarket Toners

Yes they are aftermarket, but they work fine!
I’d be surprised if you can get anywhere near 4000 pages for £18.99 from a Ink Jet!

Cheers
J

Plus one for laserjet.

Still using a 50 quid hp laser jet i got in 2000.

Have to use hooky ink refills as they dont make em any more- or not for [blooming] years…

Its starting to get a pain in the ass to find the drivers for new versions of windows. I suspect ill need to swap out shortly.

A friend gave me a HP Lazerjet 1022 when they upgraded in their office about 6 years ago. She wasn’t sure how old it was or when the cartridge had been changed, if ever. Well 6 years and a few thousand pages later and it is still going strong on the original cartridge 🙂

When it dies I will just go out and buy another

Mines a 1010 welshfarmer.

Suggest you get a new mono laser printer for what you need.

I’m still using a 2001 HP Laserjet 1100. Just keep going on and on. Toner cartridges last ages.

Apologies for the minor thread hijack but does anyone have a recommendation for a colour laser, ideally with wifi.
Not worried about copying or scanning so just a printer rather then a multifunction is fine.

anyone have a recommendation for a colour laser

I’ve got a brother hl3140. £99 from John lewis (2 year warranty). Very happy with it. Print quality is ok and it’s been reliable. Not tried the WiFi as I have it wired.

handyman153 – Member
We’ve had one of these for the past 8 months –
Brother HL-1110
Comes with a 700 page ‘starter’ cartridge

After that you can buy 4 x 1000 Page toners for £18.99 from here –
Aftermarket Toners

2nd that – had one of those for a couple of years – used both Brother and cheap replacement toner cartridges with no problems – reliable paper feed too

I have a samsung laser from 2001 that was being chucked out five years ago still going strong. Before that I had a dell laser off eBay for a fiver but the drum failed.

I use a usb -parrallel converter and a raspberry pi as a wireless print server, so I can print over wifi from laptops and mobiles.

thanks to all for the suggestions and offers. The brother HL-1110 and cheap toners sounds ideal.

Apologies for the minor thread hijack but does anyone have a recommendation for a colour laser, ideally with wifi.

Also have a Brother colour laser printer, which we use over wifi. Sits there for weeks with no printing, and then prints nicely when needed.

John Lewis Brother colour laser printer

This is the Canon I mentioned.

https://www.canon.co.uk/for_home/product_finder/printers/laser/i-sensys_lbp6670dn/

Cougar – you mention a decent laser printer for around fifty quid, but the link is for one that retails at £250 new…

Any chance of a link to the cheap (but decent) one?

Thanks

That’s the one I have. I’ll happily sell it for £250 instead if you want.

I have had a tiny B&W Brother Laser Printer for years, they cost about £50=60 and running costs are peanuts.