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Anonymous
Recommendations on printers for papercraft? My friend who had a printer is moving out of town, so I will be printerless. I have one at work, but it's laser, and I heard the ink isn't good for papercraft.

Should be:
relatively cheap
good color /cheap ink?
cardstock capable (are any not?)
able to print b&w without using color -- for papers and such

What does /po/ use?
>> Anonymous
Go to your local big box store.
Ask to see the printers.
Ignore what the salesman says.
Look for the cheapest printer you can find. (30$) It'll come with a cartridge.
Print until it's out.
Repeat.
>> Anonymous
>>149991

Yes, I did that for a while. Buying new printers that come with ink carts is cheaper than just buying the carts.

Lexmarks can usually be found on the cheap, and then you can just eBay/Craigslist the thing for $10 afterwards.
>> Anonymous
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I have a Cannon IR3100cn so can do high quality prints up to A3 size and double sided with gloss finish should I wish. If you can get access to a printer like that it is well worth it, I'm lucky in that my place of work is also the place where I live (we are a publisher amongst other things) and can use the printer for whatever I want.
>> Anonymous
I don't know too much about printers, but HP seems to be pretty good and you can get a decent all-in-one for less than $100. Also, if you're going to invest in a printer that you're going to be buying new cartridges for, you should probably buy a giganto cartridge refill kit. The carts will stop working eventually, but you can stretch their life span by quite a bit.
>> Anonymous
Go to Ritz/wolf cameras ask if they have any printers that have a full rebate. Be very nice and ask if you can buy one without a camera purchase. If they say you gotta buy a camera ask if they have any cheap ones that are under the correct code. I used to work at one and we used to give away "free" cameras all the time. U just buy it and send in the rebate.

Otherwise check dell refurbished.