All-in-one Printer w/ Cheap Ink

[Zandy595]

Anyone have a printer/scanner/copier/fax machine that uses inexpensive ink?

I'm tired of spending $100 to replace our ink.

 

[Elliesmommy]

Without a doubt you should look into Kodak printers. Mine cost me $75 at Walmart and has a copier, scanner, and printer. There are also models with the fax option for just a few dollars more.

Here is the gem.... THE INK IS CHEAP!!! I think I am paying around $10 each for a color cartridge and a black cartridge. The cartridges last a long time too. I am a person who prints photos, am in school so I have homework, and I have my own business. Needless to say, I use my printer. I have had the printer for six months and used the smaller cartridges that came with the printer within the first two months and am on my first set of refill cartridges. With about 1/2 the ink left on each.

I replaced my Cannon inkjet with this Kodak printer and can tell you that I have saved at least $200 on ink so far.

I highly suggest looking into the Kodak printers, I am in love with mine.

 

[flamingglobessigmund]

I have an HP all in one. The ink costs $15 (or so). The ink numbers are 74/75. Before I bought the printer at Staples, I checked how much the inks would cost. I believe I spent $75 on the printer. That was 3 years ago.

Good news is Walgreens has this ink and will refill the empty cartridges. They have specials for as low as $9.99, or free (on Earth Day, I think).

 

[Elliesmommy]

Oh, I forgot to mention that I am printing several pages of grocery coupons each week as well. Still four months on one of each cartridge with 1/2 the ink left in each.

Awesome deal!

 

[Elliesmommy]

I have an HP all in one. The ink costs $15 (or so). The ink numbers are 74/75. Before I bought the printer at Staples, I checked how much the inks would cost. I believe I spent $75 on the printer. That was 3 years ago.

Good news is Walgreens has this ink and will refill the empty cartridges. They have specials for as low as $9.99, or free (on Earth Day, I think).

You are right, Walgreens offers one free cartridge refill on Earth Day. They also have coupons for $2 or $3 off their regular price of $9.99 refills in their fliers on a regular basis.

They, however, are limited as to which brands/types they can refill.

 

[bicker]

I've been very interested in the whole Kodak versus HP ink prices controversy. It's been raging for over three years. However, I think it's pretty-much been resolved:

http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/ipg/the-truth-about-printing/printer-ink-cost.html

So here is HP publicly and clearly acknowledging that Kodak printers would save the average user "as little as" $1 per month. "As little as" is practically synonymous with "at least, but perhaps more than..."

Having read both sides of the issue, I'm now convinced that Kodak is definitely the way to go. As soon as our HP dies (or perhaps even as soon as when it runs out of ink again), we'll almost surely replace it with a Kodak.

And hopefully Kodak won't install such inanely heavy software drivers, as HP did. I don't know who's writing software for HP, but they seem not to know what they're doing --- OR they are deliberately insinuating their software into the OS so deeply that extricating yourself from HP software will be quite difficult.

 

[runwad]

Without a doubt you should look into Kodak printers. Mine cost me $75 at Walmart and has a copier, scanner, and printer. There are also models with the fax option for just a few dollars more.

Here is the gem.... THE INK IS CHEAP!!! I think I am paying around $10 each for a color cartridge and a black cartridge. The cartridges last a long time too. I am a person who prints photos, am in school so I have homework, and I have my own business. Needless to say, I use my printer. I have had the printer for six months and used the smaller cartridges that came with the printer within the first two months and am on my first set of refill cartridges. With about 1/2 the ink left on each.

I replaced my Cannon inkjet with this Kodak printer and can tell you that I have saved at least $200 on ink so far.

I highly suggest looking into the Kodak printers, I am in love with mine.

Can you tell me the model number?

 

[Zandy595]

Thanks everyone!

Sounds like Kodak is the way to go. I'm going to check them out. Do all models have cheap ink, or only specific ones?

 

[linnylu]

I was looking at wireless printers this weekend and also debating which brand to get. My sister-in-law has a Kodak and highly recommends it.

 

[npmommie]

Without a doubt you should look into Kodak printers. Mine cost me $75 at Walmart and has a copier, scanner, and printer. There are also models with the fax option for just a few dollars more.

Here is the gem.... THE INK IS CHEAP!!! I think I am paying around $10 each for a color cartridge and a black cartridge. The cartridges last a long time too. I am a person who prints photos, am in school so I have homework, and I have my own business. Needless to say, I use my printer. I have had the printer for six months and used the smaller cartridges that came with the printer within the first two months and am on my first set of refill cartridges. With about 1/2 the ink left on each.

I replaced my Cannon inkjet with this Kodak printer and can tell you that I have saved at least $200 on ink so far.

I highly suggest looking into the Kodak printers, I am in love with mine.

I am so glad to hear this about Kodak printers.
I am going to replace my Epson with a Kodak. I am so sorry I bought the Epson. It prints beautifully, but it is truly an ink HOG. and the ink is not cheap at all, I spend a fortune.
I debated between the two when I bought this one. uggh.
its not even that old, but I am hoping I can just give it to someone who needs a printer but can't afford one right now.

oh and Staples has the Kodak wireless 5250 on sale, the regular price is $129 and there is an instant $50 off making it $79
walmart has it too, for $89 all the time. they also have a couple of cheaper kodak wireless models.