Home all in one printer - seeking a recommendation.

[speckytecky]

Had a a HP AiO printer for home use, found it very expensive on replacement cartridges. For the past 3 years or so we have had a Kodak AIO but with that one it's been a massive frustration as, although advertised as one of the most economic to prun that's not been our experience. It does go quite long periods between use, mainly by her indoors who is a ballroom dance teacher and A level student daughter. Seems I no sooner buy and replace the manufacture branded cartridges than they run out - my guess, the ink dries up in the cartridges if they aren't regularly used. We have a desktop colour laser for most stuff so the AiO is mainly for scanning and copying. Very occasionally printing to photo paper.

 

Can snyone recommend a replacement AiO that's up to the job please, especially a machine that actually works wirelessly with iPads etc.

 

Thanks in advance.

[TechSupp]

Got a Dell colour laser MFD network capable from Morgan Computers myself, been quite happy with it so far and came with three sets of toners as well as the original ones. Have printed from iPad to it and is on my home network no problem.

[IrritableTech]

I got a canon mx740 I think it is. I use comparable cartridges in it to keep costs down. It's a five cartridge model which also helps.

 

Sits quite happily on the network. Printing from Apple and android (Google print) and our laptops quickly.

 

The scanner app works quite well on the laptops. Just pop your paper on the glass and select the computer you want to send it to.

 

When looking around I found Kodak printers were the cheapest branded cartridges due to the fact they had the smallest amount of ink in them!

[Edu-IT]

HP look to be quite good now with their automatic ink refilling for a flat fee.