best printer / scanner while travelling

sir alvisar · Member

best printer / scanner while travelling

Cruising Cruze · Guru

Hi Ernie

Get an $19 dollar one from Office Supplies including 2 cartridges
when empty get an new one you can't get for the same price new 2 new toner cartridges
you only need to bring your own USB cable
Hope this helps ( or $30 more for an wireless one )

Cheers John

Rabbit · Member

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-- Edited by Rabbit on Wednesday 18th of January 2017 09:37:46 PM

Rabbit · Member

Hi Ernie

Yep that what I do! Cheap printer/scanner unit and buy when printing required and hold for the remaining trip!

Regards

Denis

Bello · Veteran Member

That's the go, a cheapie and a spare cartridge, then chuck it. Just don't print photos and expect them to last.

Goood luck

kiwijims · Guru

Keeping an eye on ebay is worth while,

I was browsing there the other day when an add suddenly appeared from "the Good Guys"

One H.P. Printer / scanner / Copier, with two cartridges,

came on the market for an incredible price of $ 11.90.

"Strike me" it costs me 5 times that, just to buy replacement cartridges for my Canon printer!!

Hard to believe they could sell them so cheap, so I jumped into the car and shot to our nearest store which happened to be only 2 km away,

I grabbed the only one they had in stock and as soon as I returned home I checked on the Computer, to find the Add was gone, all over , finished. !!!

I've since tested the Printer, it works fine, good as gold. biggrin biggrin biggrin

K.J.

Grubbygypsy · Senior Member

Geez....the poor old earth....burping with all throw away our waste.
That is cheap....just about cheaper than going to office works or library.
I have a little scanner. It's about the size of a remote control (A4 length though). I didn't want to donate the space to the size a printer takes up. So if I ever need to print (rare) I go somewhere and print it off. I do find the scanner handy though, because I bin (destroy) everything I get so I don't have to waste space on documents (I also run a tight back up ship x 2).

Desert Dweller · Guru

We've just bought a new CANON printer for home at $19, cheaper than cartridge replacement. When away store info on a USB & print it at the local library at 20 cents per sheet.

sir alvisar · Member

thanks for info everyone

PeterD · Guru

Ernie, the home printers tend to be bulky and may be very difficult to store in the van. They are also more subject to vibration than portable printers as well. If you pourchase one then keep the bits that secured the moving bits where applicable.

The best printers are a little on the expensive side so you may have to look at the third rate option of the home printers. The only portable models i am aware of are the HP OfficeJet 250 Mobile All-in-One Printer at around $450 retail and the Canon Pixma iP110 at around $300. As recommended above try the auction sites for cast-offs. However be aware that the early HP models came without a scanner it was an option option and may not come with the offering. The early HP ones just came with a black cartridge only.

Cruising Cruze · Guru

@ Desert Dweller

We can even do better.

Today we looked for a new printer as well

we were looking for a Canon MG 2560 usb ( $19 )

walked into Office Works this morning and we've seen an Canon MP230 for $15

Bugger I should have bought 2 of them I just realized

Cheers John