Recommendations to buy a new A3 colour inkjet printer around £150

[CakeHole]

90% of the work I do now on any of my A3+ printers are A4 size or smaller...

That is what has stopped me (so far at least) picking up the HP7510 for a second printer. I rarely need or even want anything as large as an A3 print, probably similar to yourself most of the time i just use A4 and 6x8 paper (or whatever standard photo size is). The HP7510 also has quite a large footprint, not even sure if it would fit on my shelf or if the shelf would support it. I can imagine it all happy one minute and the next.....

 

[The Hat]

not even sure if it would fit on my shelf or if the shelf would support it. I can imagine it all happy one minute and the next.....

It sounds like you’d need some help from printer support, just one of my printers’ weight in at 70lb. and nearly take up the space of an armchair...

I got 6 A3 printers and wouldn’t part with them, well maybe just one them..
I’d run scared of owning a HP printer, I found them not so user friendly..

 

[CakeHole]

It sounds like you’d need some help from printer support, just one of my printers’ weight in at 70lb. and nearly take up the space of an armchair...

Most of us have similar problems, except they weigh more and actually do take up an armchair, commonly known as the other half. Rather than printing though the species can think the gentleman of the premise prints money.

I got 6 A3 printers and wouldn’t part with them, well maybe just one them..
I’d run scared of owning a HP printer, I found them not so user friendly..

6 A3 printers my lord what do you use them all for? AND... can i have some of the new £5 notes you must be running off

To be honest i think how user friendly a printer is along with build quality, performance etc, varies model to model and there is no single brand that is best today... Well IMO anyway. Ive seen the odd brother and epson which IMO are better than similar priced Canon devices. Manufacturers seem to go through phases also. My Canon MP610 is built like a tank, and just keeps going look at a typical Canon which is in the £50-£150 range at the moment though and the construction materials are pretty flimsy, the top scan lids being a good example, so thin and bendy they feel like the plastic packaging you get in a box of Milk Tray Go back around 5 years or so and it was Epson following that trend.

The HP i mentioned has a few minus points such as no Double sided duplex printing and the top tray being fiddly to fit. IF it were still its RRP of over £100 i would not even suggest it (far better competition at that price including the Brother 5xxx and 6xxx range the OP bought) but £55 for a wired and wireless network capable machine that does A3 and has a 250 sheet paper tray i doubt there is much feature wise for the same of similar money. It is at least worth a look for people that want a big device on a budget.

 

[Roy Sletcher]

AND... can i have some of the new £5 notes you must be running of

Could be showing your age, or lack of criminal expertise. I would suggest at least a £50 note would be a minimum for a modern forger.

The £5 forgeries were what I read about in my schoolboy detective thrillers. Along with Biggles by Capt W. E. Johns.

Those were the "daze".

rs

 

[stratman]

I would suggest at least a £50 note would be a minimum

Easy does it, "Sketchy" Sletcher.

The most counterfeited British currency is the 20 pound note. Similarly, the most counterfeited American currency - in America - is the 20 dollar bill. The most counterfeited currency worldwide - outside America - is the US 100 dollar bill.

In practical terms, forgers print and criminals pass currency that is common and of enough purchasing value but not so much as to draw suspicion and closer examination or outright refusal to accept.

Forgers would love to print the largest American currency denomination but where would someone try to pass it?

The closest I will ever come to that is...

 

[The Hat]

The days of forging hard currency are only in the halfpenny place, now they just sit at home and seize your computer for ransom, and you are helpless to do anything about it, unless you have a backup, its $200 they’ll squeeze out of you, every time.

If that scares you then try this company: - cybereason.com.

 

[CakeHole]

Could be showing your age, or lack of criminal expertise. I would suggest at least a £50 note would be a minimum for a modern forger.

The £5 forgeries were what I read about in my schoolboy detective thrillers. Along with Biggles by Capt W. E. Johns.

Those were the "daze".

rs

@The Hat is not a greedy man plus he always needs change has not quite mastered 3D printer the pound coins yet


Well seeing as ive now used @The Hat to inject the funny into the thread, here is a more sensible question that springs to mind.

Why is it our printers, (sorry i mean The Hat's print factory) is capable of using the copy function on currency but wont let you scan it?

Obviously its something in scanning software and more than likely what the law has said scanning software must not be allowed to do, curious they have not made the likes of Epson and Canon hardcode it into the printer and its copy function though (unless im showing my printers age now and that has been changed).

 

[The Hat]

Scanning bank notes is a mugs game, you need a photo camera to get the best reproductions, also as @stratman has said after you’ve printed it, you then need another mug fence it.

I worked in print security for years and it was so easy to catch the fools trying to off load their poor handy work, todays scanners and inkjet printers are not the proper tools for counterfeiting, I’ll say no more...

I was being very serious about ransomware and only the very foolish with ignore the threat it poses to the average home computer, download the App now, it’s free...

 

[stratman]

cybereason.com

Interesting freeware.

Malware that encrypts your files and then you have to pay a "ransom" to decrypt them -- NASTY! I doubt having Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, my main strategy against malware attacks AFTER the fact (along with Google), would help since it does nothing for encrypted files.

 

[stratman]

Why is it our printers, (sorry i mean The Hat's print factory) is capable of using the copy function on currency but wont let you scan it?

I was able to scan as both a document and a photograph a US $10 bill with my Canon.

It takes a special kind of fool to counterfeit using a printer's scanner. Lock 'em up!