From Staples website it appears as if they are having special offers posted that are only valid on Fridays ,, the best one today seems to be this all in one from Brother ,, this is a cool AIO printer as it uses EXTREMELY CHEAP INK TANKS ,, you can get a set of 4 for about $10 C/Y/M/K
I realize this printer has been on closeout at other stores in the last month or so but this is a really sweet deal.
******* UPDATE *******
My local Staples pm'd the online price ... posted in-store was $99.98 - $40 = $69.98 .... this was for a new unit not refurb ... As for the ink saving tips I can see where "plain paper" is a huge savings as otherwise it would default to glossy/photo and use colored ink in great amounts to get photo quality color saturation... The ink tanks are available from many sources at about $2.50 each; as they have no print heads and are just ink tanks they are foolproof to refill if you want to go that route also...
neidermeyer said: .....it uses EXTREMELY CHEAP INK TANKS, you can get a set of 4 for about $10 C/Y/M/K Thanks, OP. I was in the market for a printer that can take cheap ink. The link below the printer shows a black cartridge costing $24 and each color cartridge costing $13. Where do you get these cheap ink tanks for this printer, set of 4 for $10?
KayK said: just a warning.. the Staples page says no cable included.
One of life's little mysteries. When reading product reviews on printers from consumers, why is it that people expect the cable to be included when it is not in ab out 99.94% of printers sold on the planet?
I picked up two for free shipping, plus will make a good gift for someone! Thanks OP! Been looking for a new Printer that scans as my old one bit the dust and love the 10 document scanner, that will sure come in handy!
Bought one of these about a month ago to replace a scanner that fizzled and to get faxing ability. Been working fine. Fax works great. Printing is good. Haven't used the scanner part yet. For the money, it's a pretty good deal.
range
Member
posted: Aug. 15, 2008 @ 8:53a
5% OFF Coupon code for INK Catridges, Use Coupon CODE: FRD5
Hans23
Member
posted: Aug. 15, 2008 @ 8:55a
Guys, I do have this printer for about a year now. I ran out of color inks pretty soon I could not use the printer even to print in black without the other colors being replaced. I am not sure if there is a way to do this.
Hans
XxDaTxX
Senior Member
posted: Aug. 15, 2008 @ 9:01a
Hans23 said: Guys, I do have this printer for about a year now. I ran out of color inks pretty soon I could not use the printer even to print in black without the other colors being replaced. I am not sure if there is a way to do this.
Hans
Guys, I have this problem. I don't like to read the reviews posted by other members in the quick summary that says "Set the paper-type to plain. This is huge, because if you dont, even if you select grayscale printing, it will pull ink from the color cartidges."
Hans23 said: Guys, I do have this printer for about a year now. I ran out of color inks pretty soon I could not use the printer even to print in black without the other colors being replaced. I am not sure if there is a way to do this.
Hans
Replace the color inks. It doesn't print if any are empty. Look above your post a couple posts...the carts are $2.35 at a link someone provided.
Is the chance to get my local Staples to PM the online price pretty slim? I saw that the OP was able to get a new product, not refurbished, by doing the PM thing, so I'd go over to my Staples if I can do the same (get a new one instead of a refurbished one). Any thoughts? Thanks.
Don't know about been able to PM online to BM price, I think its YMMV. But I went to couple of Staples in my area. One of them had the brand-new printer for $69, while the other Staples had it for $99. No idea, why the price difference in BM store itself.
Both of these Staples store told me that the BM Staples doesn't carry refurb items. These items will have to be ordered online only. Paying $10 for shipping, bringing the total to $40, doesn't appeal to me much. Its better to get the $70 brand-new printer from BM store itself.
BTW, has anybody been able to get one of these refurb printer from BM store?
additive said: In for one with Staples reward membership for free shipping. Oh, forgot all about my reward membership and free shipping. Thanks a lot for bringing this up. Just ordered the refurb model with free shipping using the reward membership.
the standard Staples reward doesn't provide for free shipping unless the order is over $50.00
icecreamtruck
Member
posted: Aug. 15, 2008 @ 12:59p
Hans23 said: Guys, I do have this printer for about a year now. I ran out of color inks pretty soon I could not use the printer even to print in black without the other colors being replaced. I am not sure if there is a way to do this.
Hans
I had this machine too... ended up junking it. If even one color runs out (or if the printer thinks its time for the ink to run out), you can not print, period. For example, the printer tells you that you are out of magenta. You want to print a black and white document. The printer will not let you. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating. It was such a pain to own this printer. I lived with it for a couple of years and swore that I'd never buy another Brother product again.
icecreamtruck said: I had this machine too... ended up junking it. If even one color runs out (or if the printer thinks its time for the ink to run out), you can not print, period. For example, the printer tells you that you are out of magenta. You want to print a black and white document. The printer will not let you. This is INCREDIBLY frustrating. It was such a pain to own this printer. I lived with it for a couple of years and swore that I'd never buy another Brother product again.
If you had read the Amazon review in Quick Summary, you would have seen this... Third: the reason the unit will not print anything even if only one cartridge is blank is because it uses a suction type cart (different from most inkjets), and damage to the unit will occur if an empty cartridge is left in.
If I can replace an empty cartridge for less than $3 then I would gladly do it and put up with this minor inconvenience, rather than paying $30+ for some other printer's ink cartridge, that does not have this "issue".
Not sure Uber I saw elsewhere they said to edit your reward number on the checkout page. However there is no link to edit it on my checkout page like I saw a snapshot of. Maybe they made a special page just for me.
bobn27613 said: the standard Staples reward doesn't provide for free shipping unless the order is over $50.00 Mine is a standard rewards membership that I had opened in store, couple of years back. I haven't bought any item using my rewards membership, so its not like I have a high usage of the membership. I got free shipping for this item, after I had entered the rewards membership number on the checkout page.
ak649
Member
posted: Aug. 15, 2008 @ 1:21p
neidermeyer said:
******* UPDATE *******
My local Staples pm'd the online price ... posted in-store was $99.98 - $40 = $69.98 .... this was for a new unit not refurb ... As for the ink saving tips I can see where "plain paper" is a huge savings as otherwise it would default to glossy/photo and use colored ink in great amounts to get photo quality color saturation... The ink tanks are available from many sources at about $2.50 each; as they have no print heads and are just ink tanks they are foolproof to refill if you want to go that route also...
they gave you the new printer at the refurb price? How did you get them to do that?
this model doesn't eat up the ink? i've had bad experience on brother AIO before, it just kept eating the ink(when machine was cleaning itself) i had to replace them even i don't use
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vaduvur
Member
posted: Oct. 13, 2008 @ 9:19p
lillazyfats81 said: KayK said: just a warning.. the Staples page says no cable included.
as far as I know, NO printers from MFG come with connect cable
If the printer takes USB drives and memory cards, would you still need to have it connected to the PC, to print stuff? Wouldn't I be able to print without connecting to the computer (avoiding the cable)? This may seem like a dumb question; but I have no experience with printers. Sorry about that, and thanks.
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