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I have a feeling my printer is completely knackered. It prints approximately 2 pages per minute (on a good day!), I have to feed each sheet individually or it jams, and it jams regularly for no apparent reason.
I've tried giving it a clean but it wasn't very successful - is this something I can do properly at home, or does it need to be serviced? If it can be a DIY job, what are the things to look out for?
It's a HP P/S/C type jobby, rather large, and blue with a grey top. Can't remember the model.
If this doesn't work, any recommendations for a new one? I'll be buying it in September ish as shouldn't need it much until then, and I'd rather not spend more than £100 on it. Due to my habit of rushing to meet deadlines, quick printing is important, and ideally I'd like another 3 in one thing.
I've tried giving it a clean but it wasn't very successful - is this something I can do properly at home, or does it need to be serviced? If it can be a DIY job, what are the things to look out for?
It's a HP P/S/C type jobby, rather large, and blue with a grey top. Can't remember the model.
If this doesn't work, any recommendations for a new one? I'll be buying it in September ish as shouldn't need it much until then, and I'd rather not spend more than £100 on it. Due to my habit of rushing to meet deadlines, quick printing is important, and ideally I'd like another 3 in one thing.
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Is it paper thats been sat around on your desk? as if it gets even unnoticeably damp it causes it to stick, other than that, theres not an awful lot you can do, regarding it being really slow, an obvious thing to check would be what print quality you have it set it, ensure its just on Normal or something.
Regarding buying a new one, no recommendations from me, not often i have to print things out, but you'll pick a decent one up for under £50 (and i dont mean the Lexmark efforts that you then need to pay £50 for a set of cartridges for!) for a 3-1 id say you'd easily get one for under £100 still.
Everybody i know uses Epson with good results weather it be for general printing, photo printing or printing on to the face of CDs... One thing to watch with Epson seems to be that if you use cheap 3rd party ink, and use it very very rarely, it clogs the print jets up, but if you do more than a couple of pages a week it shouldn't be an issue.
if yo don't print often and mainly text I'd get a black and white laser printer which you can get for around £50 these days
if you get any printer work out how cheap you can buy the ink first.
I got an Epson D88 and you can get compatibles for it for like £1 to £1.50p each
My and my friends all bought DELL's but we knew the prices of the ink would be Hoooooge
But we only paid £9.99 for an inkjet fully delivered - we all used it once - refilled the ink by syringe a few times and when it was screwed gave them away. - Disposable printer.
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Epsons are good, solid reliable printers with cheap consumables.
Canons give a fantastic print out quality
Dell/Lexmark etc... do a job but once the inks ran out... buy another printer since it's literally cheaper in many cases :crazyeyes