For really some time, buying OEM or Original Equipment Manufacturer cartridges is the first choice of customers whose printers run out of ink. This style is beginning to change just lately. Customers are fed up with high-priced OEM cartridges and trying to find a lot more affordable selections, say, compatible and remanufactured cartridges. So, let’s think reversely, to save as much money as possible, why don’t you buy printers with cheap ink? And what printer should you buy even you already have this idea in your head?
Generally speaking, the main brands of printers in the market which can use cheap compatible or remanufactured ink cartridges are Brother,Canon,Epson.
Brother Printer with cheap ink: Most of inkjet MFC Brother are printers with cheap inks. For example Brother MFC-J615W and Bother MFC-295CN are both all-in-one color inkjet printers with cheap ink which can scan, copy and fax. By cheap, maybe you can’t believe, a whole pack of four colours of LC61 are only $12.99 at 123ink.ca. The other Brother printers with cheap inks LC61 are MFC-J265W, MFC-5490CN,MFC-5895CW,MFC-795CW,MFC-6490CW,MFC-255CW,MFC-495CW.
Canon Printer with cheap ink: Comparing with Brother, Canon has more inkjet printers. Among them, a fairly large number of them take comparatively cheap ink: such as Canon 220/221,CLI-8/PGI-5 and PG210/CL211.For example, MP980 printer with cheap ink PGI-220/CLI-221,a combo set of 5 ink cartridges is only $26.99.And Pixma MP495 printer using cheap ink PG-210/CL211,$34.99 for a combo of both color and black which can print up to 220 black page and 401 colour page.You can also check the other Canon printers which use PG210/CL211,such as Pixma MP280, Pixma IP2700,MX420,etc.
Epson Printer with cheap ink: Epson mainly produces inkjet printers. Printers which use the famous T069 ink cartridges are no doubt your first choice of printer with cheap ink. For example: Epson Stylus NX215, Stylus NX510, Workforce 600, etc.
What printer with cheap ink? The printers mentioned above could probably help you out with this question. But the list is not finished and won’t be finished with the new printers keep coming out and new compatible cartridges follows. But at least, you can have an general idea about what are cheap inks and what printer takes these inks.
The HP remanufactured toners seem to be the best buy for the price.