Looking for a 'easy to manage' all-in-one printer?

i have got a Brother DCP-115C all-in-one,you can buy black ink seperate and triple colour pack,it has a memory card reader on the front and you can buy compatile inks at tesco,black ink is under £9 and the triple pack is under £15.You get a complete pack of inks when you buy the printer,i have found it very good and it prints off excellent photos.I had an epsom printer before but the Brother all-in-one is much better and more economical,hope this helps.

If you'll do a lot of printing then cost out the inks as well - refillable ink reservoirs will be much cheaper to run than cartridges, especially as you can top up one ink at a time.

At the very least look for a separate black cartridge for obvious reasons, you'll chuck the whole lot away whenever your black runs out.

If you are doing artwork then go for a printer with archival inks.

If time is important and you are printing images visit a store and print out a photo - which will give you a feel for the time involved... students time is valuable too!

You have many decent printers on the market but I would stick with a major name - try searching for reviews.

Enjoy your course.

All I know is you want one that you can set, or is set to only use the black ink, so that consciously you have to set when you want colour.

As a student most of your work will probably involve printing out text so you don't need colour.

It is quite surprising how much of the colour you will use, unnecessarily.

We have a 3 in1 unit, scanner, printer and copier and rarely use the scanner or copier.

The cartridges are expensive, so I will not recommend it.

Just consider what you will be using it for and if you need one with all of the bells and whistles.

Look into Canon. They make good printers that don't have many problems with clogged heads.

I would advise you to absolutely avoid Kodak... Regardless of what appears to be lower ink prices.'

Kodak's support system and drivers are probably worse than ***ANY*** other printer manufacturer in the industry, bar none. Forget sharing your printer to other computers, forget anything but a "canned" response to questions, I don't know if their support people CAN NOT read plain English questions, or whether they just FAIL to do so, but answers from them will NOT be answers to your question, unless your question happens to fit their canned responses.

At the moment they only support a very limited number of operating systems, and even after more than a YEAR of promises, they do not yet have ANY kind of support for Linux even though the Linux community has offered to produce the drivers FREE for them, if they would only supply the specs needed to write the drivers. They are obviously either completely incompetent, idiots, or being paid by Microsoft not to release linux drivers. (Or a combination of the above) I wouldn't trust them a bit at this point... Supposedly Linux drivers have been in the works for over a year... Who knows if they will ever get it right (Or windows 2000 drivers, or the ability to share from a wireless print server... You can't even share between SUPPORTED operating systems... and who knows if they will EVER support the next version of windows?)

I've also seen some complaints of problems with the print heads, not sure if that is a legitimate complaint, or just some users not doing something right. Since their support won't even get back to me to get some drivers so I can use the printer and test it myself, I can't verify or deny this.

Stay away from them and go for a good printer that has decent after-market cartridges available for them. Many Epson/Canon printers have good after-market inks available, since thier print heads are not integrated into the cartridges themselves.

I've got a HP Vivera 2575 Photosmart . It can scan, photocopy & has a USB & memory card reader on it also. Great printer got both the black & colour ink refilled & cost €30.

Im using an Epson photo RX425 and all of The features work great (averaging about 25-40 prints per day)

The scaner is great, the photocopier is spot on and the photo reproduction is great!

As for ink, I use compatibles from Ebay that cost me £24.98 for 28 cartriges (thats 7 complete sets!)

Heres a link;-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/28-COMPATIBLE-INK-FOR-EPSON-...

HP company Inkjet one thousand funds:$164 to $195 HP Deskjet 5850 funds:$182 Lexmark Z816 shade Jetprinter fee:$149 Epson Stylus photograph R200 fee:$106 My determination of printers are given here on the inspiration of their overall performance, comments & fee. desire you will possibly be able to compliment one. good success.

cannon has superb printers especially the MP series they are easy to use and change ink catridges.

go to the store.