Printer at home?
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Anonymous
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Buy a printer cheapskate.
We always had a printer at home. |
Anonymous
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I cannot believe people like this exist.
Let me guess, you arent paying for college either. |
Anonymous
| We have an HP all-in-one and we buy our ink at Costco. Yes, the ink is expensive, but I buy it on sale at Costco and probably spend about $200/year on ink. I'm surprised that people with means go without at-home printing options. It's so convenient to be able to print stuff at home and I can't imagine relying on my employer to subsidize that cost. |
Anonymous
Of course you can't imagine - it's not allowed in most workplaces. |
Anonymous
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Get a HP laser printer and buy your ink at costco. At most schools can't even print there. The schools don't have enough paper for the teachers, let alone for middle schoolers and high schoolers to print assignments!
Get a printer, OP. |
Anonymous
I understand - what I don't understand is how he has gotten through freshman, sophomore, and half of junior years without - and now needs one. It's just something I never wanted to have to deal with - DH and I very rarely print, and it has been nice to not have to deal with another piece of tech/equipment that can break/malfunction/cause headaches. And, you are recommending an HP laser - do you mean buy the toner at Costco? |
Anonymous
Name call all you want. I very rarely had a printer at home. Computer, yes. Printer, no. Printers can be $100. They can also be $300, $500 or $800 (or more, I imagine). Big difference in price and, I suspect, quality/dependability/longevity - and I was not feeling well versed enough to know where on the cost spectrum we need to land. |
Anonymous
Yes, HP Laser and get the toner at costco for it. Exactly. We had to replace ours recently. We got this one: https://www.costco.com/hp-officejet-pro-8028-all-in-one-print%2c-scan%2c-copy%2c-fax.product.100492930.html I like being able to scan, copy and print. |
Anonymous
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We bought a laser printer that prints black and white only and we have been very happy with it. The one we have is a Dell, which we actually bought second hand from a friend who is a college professor. She was upgrading her printer for her home office and sold us her old one. We have had it about 7 years now and it is just a workhorse. It prints fast and never seems to need any maintenance.
Here is a brother printer for black and white only that is $80 and has good reviews: https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-L2300D-Monochrome-Printer-Printing/dp/B00NQ1CLTI/ref=sr_1_6?keywords=laser%2Bprinter%2Bblack%2Bwhite&qid=1575692901&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&sr=8-6&th=1 |
Anonymous
Of course you need a printer at home when you have a school age kid. Printing all kinds of materials are very helpful in all kinds of ways outside and within the school spectrum. Printer is essential tool like a pen or computer. It allows you immediately print materials that you need and have them at your disposal as needed. Printing outside of the house causes hardship on a kid and oftentimes hinders learning. It is essential for research and for creative education. Also it is great for expanding child's horizons. Black and white printing is very inexpensive and color is not that expensive either however to make some budgeting you can restrict color printing of big full color pages but you should not restrict black and white text printing ever. You can buy very economical printers that print tons of pages per cartridge. If I were you I would just buy the cheapest printer but with few things in mind: - it would need to have an option for separate black cartrage along with color ones as if you have only color ones and no black, the printer uses colors to print in black so it is expensive. -I would stay away from Epson who has nice printers but my experience is that as opposed to HP their heads do tend to dry between uses and it sucks and is very frustrating therefore causes problems. - HP printers you can have sitting for months without use if you have to and their heads do not dry as Epson so you can just go straight to printing some stuff. Printing outside is more expensive then printing at home, if it is not about money then it is about time, if your child has to go places and look for free option, it takes away tons of money from resting, and studying and relaxing and all that kid needs so it is a total waste of life. Average school kid can run on one set of cartridges for solid few months sometimes even a year if they print only few pages a week. This is random HP basic work horse printer that cost 59 bucks at Best Buy, it will do for the very basic home use without any problems and will last you years. many people use this kind of printers for kids or family use because it is really good basic printer. Picture come so so but it is not ideal for photo printing but your school papers will do just fine. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-envy-5055-all-in-one-instant-ink-ready-printer-black/6191401.p?skuId=6191401&ref=212&loc=1&ref=212&loc=1&msclkid=6ba64f6bb5c91b76f906128781d4eceb&gclid=CIvo8_fWpOYCFZLzswodYasKLQ&gclsrc=ds It takes two cartrages - one is color and the other is black ink each can be bought individually at 15 bucks more less https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-65-ink-cartridge-black/5301900.p?skuId=5301900 https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-65-ink-cartridge-cyan-magenta-yellow/5301800.p?skuId=5301800 or both in one paper box for bit less https://www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-65-2-pack-ink-cartridges-multicolor-black/5303000.p?skuId=5303000 |
Anonymous
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Be careful letting laser printer into your home environment especially if you have allergies,
asthma and other issues. Google laser printer health hazards and decide then. |
Anonymous
| Buy a printer but do it for the house. Ask your teen what else they would like for Christmas. Giving them a printer for Xmas is like giving them a vacuum cleaner. |
Anonymous
| How old are you? Every family I know has a printer at home. |
Anonymous
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OP, you should post in teens forum, that forum will have much better understanding of kids needs
in this regard. There are few ways that you can try to get a free or inexpensive printer: -ask forum if someone can donate - go to local thrift shop - go to your local dumpster, people dump perfectly good printers all the time and you can just ask someone prior to dumping if you can have it, I would be happy to give it to you instead of dumping into recycles knowing it would help your child immediately. - post a free ad wherever you can to ask. People are buying new computers and new printers all the time and replace perfectly good working ones, they do it mostly for the updated looks so something three y ears old will still be great working but they just dont' like it anymore. |
Anonymous
Some people live on one budget, some are single parents, some live paycheck to paycheck some are at poverty line. PP don't assume that everyone can afford one but yes, every child should have one if only possible. |