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I thought I’d post about a printer that I bought back in 2020 when I needed to print for my job when working at home. I bought a canon G5050 printer so it’s a general inkjet colour printer rather than a photography printer.
I’ve been very impressed by the print quality but mostly by the running costs. The printer came with a full set of black and colour ink bottles (full bottles not partially full like some printers come). It also came with a spare black ink bottle so i added an extra set of colour inks (circa £25 for the 3 inks) worrying I’d soon go through the ink.
After 2 years of perfect operation I’ve just had to run the maintenance programs as prints were recently coming out faint (I’ve stopped using it as regularly as I can now get into the office to print but I’m also trying to cut down on printing from an environmental perspective). Running the nozzle check program found the magenta ink head was blocked but it was sorted by running two cleans followed by a deep clean. What was interesting is there was a print count of 4,918 nozzle check prints. Considering I’m still using the original inks (ink levels are currently black 25%, cyan 30%, magenta 30%, yellow 50%) I’m pretty impressed as it works out roughly as 0.6p per page (75% of ink used at £40 replacement cost / 4918 printed pages).
The Canon G5050 is currently £170 at Argos and a full set of inks (bought individually) from canon store is £40 so if you want a cheap to run general printer I’d definitely recommend one.
I’ve been very impressed by the print quality but mostly by the running costs. The printer came with a full set of black and colour ink bottles (full bottles not partially full like some printers come). It also came with a spare black ink bottle so i added an extra set of colour inks (circa £25 for the 3 inks) worrying I’d soon go through the ink.
After 2 years of perfect operation I’ve just had to run the maintenance programs as prints were recently coming out faint (I’ve stopped using it as regularly as I can now get into the office to print but I’m also trying to cut down on printing from an environmental perspective). Running the nozzle check program found the magenta ink head was blocked but it was sorted by running two cleans followed by a deep clean. What was interesting is there was a print count of 4,918 nozzle check prints. Considering I’m still using the original inks (ink levels are currently black 25%, cyan 30%, magenta 30%, yellow 50%) I’m pretty impressed as it works out roughly as 0.6p per page (75% of ink used at £40 replacement cost / 4918 printed pages).
The Canon G5050 is currently £170 at Argos and a full set of inks (bought individually) from canon store is £40 so if you want a cheap to run general printer I’d definitely recommend one.