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whats a cheap-ink efficient printer?

i print many documents, mostly black and white every week. I currently have a hp psc 1315. Its a cheap printer however, the ink cartridges are so expensive. i've tried using refills but they never work - as in, they clog up after printing 10 pages I don't care about the speed of the printer nor the quality - but i just need cheaper ink! Im not looking for a laser printer either because apparently they're bad for your health any suggestions? thank you

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1. Canon and Kodak are the thriftiest on ink but about 200 initially, look at the canon models with individual ink tanks like a IP4000
2. Kodak. Uses very little ink and ink is cheap http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=9/11921/10580&pq-locale=en_US They invested a lot of money into reducing ink usage ($28 million dollars I believe). You get about twice as many prints than Canon and about three times as many than HP, Epson, Lexmark etc... At least get a Canon Pixma series printer if you don't Like Kodak.
3. I've made good experiences in the last 10 years with Canon printers with single ink tanks and refilling them with quite cheap colors (bottles - the brand doesn't help you as I'm in Switzerland). Same method with Epson and Lexmark was a problem, but with Canon it works fine - one printer for 6 years (often used) and now I use the Pixma MP 750 (multifunction) since 3 years without any problems and good quality prints.
4. There are other GOOD low cost options for professional quality printing and the Best Advice unless you like spending good money buying expensive inkjet cartridges, if I were in your shoes I would simply look for an older Hewlett Packard (HP) Laserjet Printer like one from the HP Laserjet 4 or 5 series, HP 2100 or 2200 series etc. and NO LASERJET PRINTERs are Not Bad for Your Health? As you know the print quality for any papers or documents you have to submit is TERRIFIC and all the drivers are still readily availble on-line for download. Like someone else suggest I actually saw some GOOD WORKHORSE HP LASERJET 4 printers on sale for $12.00 on CRAIGLIST which caught me by surprise me...since I personally own like 4 Hewlett Packard black & white HP Laserjets that I paid from a free-gift away, $35, $65 and like $1,500 <= years ago brand new. Naturally I don't need any more but where I saw it was on my local CRAIGSLIST under the FOR SALE category then COMPUTERS. What happened was Seller bought a huge lot of commercial HP Laserjet printers on few pallets and simply did not have storage. Just be PATIENT if you didn't see any under a wildcard search or maybe POST YOUR OWN CL Inquiry in 2 places under WANTED and COMPUTERS but most likely all you will attract is people dumping inkjet printers. EBAY COMPUTERs might be another Good Buy to find a good laserjet printer, but do yourself a favor and SEARCH BY CLOSEST DISTANCE bec S&H will certainly be costly. Also genuine unopened HP toner lasts forever and never dries up, and with patience can be bought for like $25 or more and one toner cartridge can easily last a full year. Hope the Above Info Helps!