How to choose a printer

Finding the right printer for yourself can be confusing. There’s so many to choose from, they’re such a big range of prices, so what should I consider???

Firstly, the price. The purchase price is the least of it all. What a printer ‘costs’ is, over time, mainly what it’s going to cost you for replacement ink cartridges. You need to figure out how much you can spend on a printer right now, because you want the ‘best’ you can afford to buy, and from the available printers around that price range you need to choose the one which is going to have affordable running costs.

Secondly, ink cartridges. This is the main ‘cost’ of your printer. ‘Good’ printers have separate cartridges for each colour. If the replacement cartridge includes all the colours in the one unit, and you run out of one colour, then you’re faced with the prospect of either continuing to print funny looking pictures or buying a more expensive ‘all-in-one’ cartridge when you had plenty of ink left for the other colours!

This prospect is the main reason that most of the ‘ultra-cheap’ $80 and less printers are really not very good purchases. They’ll almost inevitably have an ‘all-in-one’ ink cartridge, or at best a black and a colour cartridge. (I feel rather ‘ripped off’ when I have to replace 3 colours just because one ran out!)

Thirdly, what are you using the printer for?? Don’t look at a printer and think “This must be good because it has all these wonderful features.” Decide base on exactly what YOU need to use it for. Do you need to print lots of documents? Is printing speed an important consideration for you? Are you going to be printing photographs? Do you need a fax functions? Is a Scanner require? If so are you going to need to print them directly from the camera or the camera’s memory card?

Canon MX700 is a multifunction printer with fax, scanner, and separate cartridge. We have been supplying numbers of customer with it. it is a great choice for small offices with a wide variety of print tasks. Fast print and copy speeds • Great print and scan quality • ADF • Two paper sources • Preview LCD • Memory card slots and PictBridge port. With a RRP $199.00, you can't go wrong!
The ink cartridge for this MX700 is very reasonable as well. Only $10.50 on compatible ink cartridge.