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Need Help selecting new Inkjet printer,one that is more efficient!!

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yackulic

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I currently have a HP 1350 All-in-One Ink Jet Printer that I use to print about 50-60 8x10 color prints a month but it is costing me a arm& leg in Ink costs.

So I am looking for suggestions on replacement model, as I hear there are newer ink jet printers which are more efficient when it comes to printing and ink consumption or the ink replacement is cheaper then the current (I use HP56 & HP57).

I looked at a color laser printer but the quality of printing is not good enough and replacement cartridges make it to expensive..
 
Hard to find a current model printer with a lower TCO than the Canon iP4300. Clone tanks for it are $4. each or less. And it has been as low as $70. after rebate recently and the Egg has been selling it for $90. shipped ($75. during the period of free shipping they had before christmas)..

A full set of new OEM tanks (which the iP4300 comes with) costs $75. alone... Heck, at that rate you could buy the printers when you need ink and then sell them on eBay with your empties (so they could swap the chips to clone ink tanks) and come out way ahead...

.bh.
 
By all means yackulic---the ip6000d is the better and cheaper photoprinter----unlike the ip4300, it has no
text black cartridge----but no chips means it will take readily available clone cartridges---and refilling is
very easy with Canons.-------if at all possible--get a printer that uses the BCI-3&6 cartridge line.---refilling should slash your printing costs by a factor of 10x or better.

For refill and clone cartridge advice---try the nifty stuff forums.
 
iP6000D is a six-color, true photo printer which isn't as capable at text printing. The iP4300 is a general purpose printer which is excellent at text and equivalent to the iP5200 with 3500+ nozzles - a four-color photo printer. I doubt you could tell the difference between the photo printing of the iP4300 and the iP6000D. You'd have to go to the 8500 to get noticeably better photo printing.
. If you're serious about your photo printing, you won't be using the direct printing features of the 6000D anyway. A short while ago, Beach Camera still had the 6000D at under $100. IDK what it would cost to get one now as they are OOS at Beach.

.b.h.
 
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