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Hi all.

I currently have a Canon Pixma IP8500 which I bought a while ago mostly for photo printing, however we now using it for printing documents 95% of the time and rarely use it for photo printing anymore.
The problem with this is that the ink cartridges cost a bomb! It holds 8 ink cartridges and they cost £10 each, we are currently spending over £20 a month just on cartridges... that's more than what we pay for our TV, internet and phone!
Another slight annoyance with this Canon printer is that it's plugged into a Windows XP PC on my home network with 3 other computers, but my own computer uses Windows Vista which means I can't actually use it with my PC because the PC it's attached to is running the XP driver...

So I would like to buy a fairly cheap (will pay up to £50 and don't mind buying second hand), reliable, colour printer that is cheap to run and it must work with Windows Vista 64bit.
At the moment I like the look of the HP Deskjet printers, especially the HP Deskjet D4360 - what do you think?

Also, how do I get around with the problem of having the printer attached to a PC running Windows XP but also using it with a Vista 64bit PC on the network?

Any help would be appreciated.

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I'd suggest you keep this current printer for colour and get this laser printer for your black documents. I'm planning on buying this one too, and I'm in the exact same situation as you! Except I've got an IP4000 XD
http://www.ncix.com/products/index [...] omoid=1029
Brother HL-2140 Mono Laser Printer 23PPM 2400X600DPI 8MB 181MHZ Processor USB2.0 Win / Mac

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