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A Cheap and reliable printer with low running costs?

Which printer should i buy? I am an occasional printer, so dont really need a laser jet printer. I want a reliable printer, which is cheap and has low running costs. My last printer was a Lexmark Z515 i bought it for $30 but had to buy $50 worth of cartridges because i couldnt even re-fill them because Lexmark used some kind of precaution to prevent this. So i really want a Printer which i can be able to re-fill the cartridges many times and would be cheap. Thanks in advance

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1. Well, you should really get laser. You aren't really going to find a printer with ink under $3, and if it is around that price it will be rubbish. Try a Samsung ML-2010R. It;s about $90, but it'll save you a fortune on ink.
2. printers and ink or toner aren't really cheap. you can get a cheap printer, but the ink will be expensive. your cheapest way out is going to be a used inkjet that you can refill ink yourself. I got an HP 812c at goodwill for 10 and bought the refil kit at like walgreens or walmart for about 20. you can refill a cartridge 4 or 5 times. if you have to buy one it will cost about 20 - 25
3. 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. 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!