Suggest a printer for the college academic

[tjking14]

Here is my story. I am a college student who prints quite a lot of college material, papers etc. I print around 100 letter sized pages a week mostly in black white, using my canon mp280. As a printer it works fine, but I am sick and tired of having to swap cartridges month. It is expensive for one, and troublesome to order new cartridges often. And to think that suck a small amount of ink costs so much, it is just day light robbery. And the fact that companies go to the lengths they go in employing technologies to extend their profit margins, is appalling. I could print at my college. But it is expensive 15 cents a page. And more so since I am not on campus often, it is inconvenient on a day to day basis. I have read that refills are only possible to an extent that they eventually clog printing heads.

Anyway, what are possible solutions for my problem. I am ok with buying a new printer as long as it can guarantee me some amount of reliability while allowing some refill option. I am entirely ok with a monochrome printer. Please advise me on these matters.

And it must be entirely clear to you already, that I am total noob in these matters. To me a printer is just a way to get a better grade. No less no more.

 

[panos]

I have read that refills are only possible to an extent that they eventually clog printing heads

Depends on your refill technique and the compatibility of your inks.

My suggestion is keep your printer, make a quick research on the web and youtube and buy a small refill kit. See how it works. If it works well, buy ink in higher volumes and then the cost will be drastically minimized.

If you are not happy with the refilling results, get a laser printer.

 

[Simon R.]

I'd go for a monochrome laser printer. Lot's of cheap compatible/remanufactured toner cartridges out there

 

[The Hat]

Here is my story. I am a college student who prints quite a lot of college material, papers etc. I print around 100 letter sized pages a week mostly in black white, using my canon mp280. As a printer it works fine, but I am sick and tired of having to swap cartridges month. It is expensive for one, and troublesome to order new cartridges often. And to think that suck a small amount of ink costs so much, it is just day light robbery. And the fact that companies go to the lengths they go in employing technologies to extend their profit margins, is appalling. I could print at my college. But it is expensive 15 cents a page. And more so since I am not on campus often, it is inconvenient on a day to day basis. I have read that refills are only possible to an extent that they eventually clog printing heads.

Anyway, what are possible solutions for my problem. I am ok with buying a new printer as long as it can guarantee me some amount of reliability while allowing some refill option. I am entirely ok with a monochrome printer. Please advise me on these matters.

And it must be entirely clear to you already, that I am total noob in these matters. To me a printer is just a way to get a better grade. No less no more.

I would also advocate the laser printer route as a better option with large capacity cartridge.
But if you want to continue to use your MP280 then by all means get compatible
filled cartridges from a reliable source it would be a far cheaper option for you.

Compatible cartridges are not as bad as some would say to use and they will not block up your print head
when you use your printer regularly just as long as you dont try refill them yourself that is..