Echoing cost of ink and whether non-branded alternatives are available (check Staples or Viking). Though some printers are evil and refuse to work when you've replaced them with the cheaper ones unless you press complicated combinations of buttons to outwit them.
If you want colour, again compare cartridge prices and whether you can replace just one if it is run out or whether you have to replace all of them at once.
I check everything on paper so printing costs are my biggest business expense. A Canon MG2950 died with a bit of crumpled paper stuck inside it that I still can't get out. I still use its scanner. Depends if you would use a scanner. I wasn't expecting to but I turn out to use it a lot for passports, illustration scans and documents people want me to sign. But I have nowhere else I could do these things.
I am happy for black and white with a chunky Brother one that does fast double-sided. It has a separate drum and cartridges which is supposed to keep the price down but actually means two things to run out at separate times.
Think about what you want it to do and whether you want to pay extra for it to do anything else.
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Date: 2018-07-18 05:59 pm (UTC)If you want colour, again compare cartridge prices and whether you can replace just one if it is run out or whether you have to replace all of them at once.
I check everything on paper so printing costs are my biggest business expense. A Canon MG2950 died with a bit of crumpled paper stuck inside it that I still can't get out. I still use its scanner. Depends if you would use a scanner. I wasn't expecting to but I turn out to use it a lot for passports, illustration scans and documents people want me to sign. But I have nowhere else I could do these things.
I am happy for black and white with a chunky Brother one that does fast double-sided. It has a separate drum and cartridges which is supposed to keep the price down but actually means two things to run out at separate times.
Think about what you want it to do and whether you want to pay extra for it to do anything else.
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Date: 2018-07-18 07:48 pm (UTC)Think about what you want it to do and whether you want to pay extra for it to do anything else.
That's a good way of thinking about it. Cheap, black and white, doesn't have to be very fast. And having read white_hart's comment, wireless.