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could anyone recommend a good A4 photo printer for around the £60 mark.

Needs to be easy to use mainly. id like to be able to set it up to print wirelessly if possible.

Ive been considering the canon 4300 which ive found for about £50-60 but i have very little experience with printers.
 
I have the ip4300 and bang for buck I would recommend it :)
 
Epson R260 would be a good printer, nice quality and cheap to run. Using Epson paper and ink the output is fantastic and the output even with compatible cartridges is not far behind.

I run an older model R300 with a CISS it costs me virtually nothing to run and the output is still very good. I've just bought an R2400 for outright quality but I can't comment on it yet as I've not had chance to use it properly and its not in the right price band
 
ditto the epson comments, i have an r200, my only complaint is a full set of epson ink costs about the same as the printer did which included inks ... go figure that one out..
 
If you get the Epson you can add a CISS then your printing costs will disappear. BUT be careful which one you get. I bought one and it was rubbish then I sent it back and bought another one which has run faultlessly through 2 sets of inks (equivalent of 25 sets of cartridges).

Mine cost £47 but was full of ink and ready to install and like I said faultless.
 
Cowasaki (great name..) - what is a CISS ?
Some sort of bulk ink cartridge thing I guess...
 
steveinspain said:
Cowasaki (great name..) - what is a CISS ?
Some sort of bulk ink cartridge thing I guess...
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Steve...CISS= Continuous Ink Supply System...lots of tube type thingies and bigger pots of the coloured stuff.

Bob
 
Thanks Canon Bob, and by the way - remember what you told me about not holding a 5d unless I could afford one................
 
Another recomendation for the ip4300, good print quality and genuine inks can be picked up fairly cheaply if you shop around.
 
scraggs said:
Another recomendation for the ip4300, good print quality and genuine inks can be picked up fairly cheaply if you shop around.
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:agree: - just bought one after wearing out another Canon Pixma one - photo quality on photo paper is superb imho & it has separate ink cartridges which is a must - as scraggs mentioned they can be picked up pretty cheap (just over £3 at Amazon)
Paul ;)
 
Can you get Epson inks to go in these things..?

..or am I being anal about keeping it 'real' ?
 
I brought the Epson R360 earlier this year for around £70. Only one problem it drinks the ink! Just purchased my 3rd set of ink cartridges!!!!
 
Well its back to recommending a CISS. They are wonderful devices if you get a good one. It costs me £12 for a set of 6 bottles of ink. Each bottle hold 15 cartridges full of ink AND there is no wastage per cartridge so you actually get 20X more ink. Now that works out at £12/120 = 10p per cartridge and you never have to change them . All you have to do is draw up a syringe of ink (supplied) and squirt it through a hole in the top of the reservoir. No mess, no hassle and you just do that when the ink gets down to about 20%. Its not even critical how much you put in. Also every time you turn the printer off then back on again it resets the cartridge chips so the printer thinks you have put new cartridges in. (cost of the R300 system is £46 inc full set of inks)

As a side point I have JUST used my R2400 for the first time WOW WOW WOW. Archival matte paper on full quality - Looks like I just collected a print from the camera shop. Fantastic detail and colour. Looks like I am going to have to find another £200 for a CISS for the R2400 (they are more than for the 200/300 series). If anyone wants to know where to get the same CISS I use let me know and I will get the name and address. (not all CISSs are the same. The first one I bought was from SVP and it was absolutely rubbish and I got covered in ink and spilled some on my mac mini!)

I am looking forward to printing a B&W print but I have to go to work now!
 
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