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Message Board > Been som bargains at Harvey Norman
Been som bargains at Harvey Norman| geek_tigra | July 19, 2008, 7:40 pm | #1 | | Been som bargains at Harvey Norman today. Canon col. printers from $29 and Epson $38. |
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| | geek_gorbulas | July 19, 2008, 7:44 pm | #2 | | Printer manufacturers make all their money on the ink you have to buy, that is why printers are dirt cheap | | geek_tigra | July 19, 2008, 7:48 pm | #3 | | These were reduced from over $200. Saw one guy buying 1 because it was cheaper than buying a replacement cartridge for the one he already had. | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 8:05 pm | #4 | | And what he didnt realise is that printers ship with not much ink in them. but he can always sell the printer or his old one on here. someone is sure to buy it. i got sick of printer cartridges and their hassles of not running right out and blockages etc so i got a laser printer. much more reliable and faster aswell | | geek_tigra | July 19, 2008, 8:14 pm | #5 | | Have to say I would prefer the same and in fact was looking closely at buying one however the $400+ price was a bit daunting and being in HN's for something else couldnt resist the deal. | | geek_intrade | July 19, 2008, 8:19 pm | #6 | | Hardlynormal als has had tomtom 1 satnav for 300 bux few month ago on special.cheaper then all others.... | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 8:31 pm | #7 | | Oh i just got a mono laser if i want colour printing ill just go and use a pay per use one. its been 4 months since i bought the printer and i havnt had a desperate need for colour yet. its a brother and cost be $150. i was a bit scared about buying another brother because the inkjet that we had was an absolute dog. the printer would always go out of line, use all the ink cleaning itself, the software was aweful and bloatware and the ink was pretty expensive. the laser is behaving itself so far!! it just operates off the wireless network via the base station | | geek_phlippy | July 19, 2008, 8:50 pm | #8 | | Laser printers do they print photos ok?
never used one.
any recomended ones? | | geek_paddaricko | July 19, 2008, 9:09 pm | #9 | | $29 , that's unreal. Hope the same deals still going tomorrow. | | geek_pdh | July 19, 2008, 9:19 pm | #10 | | I'm guessing it won't be considering the sale was called Super Saturday. | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 10:07 pm | #11 | | Re 8 i have found that colour lasers dont do a very good job of colours. they are never very accurate. perfectly fine for everything apart from photos which need to be colour accurate. you are better off getting photos printed at a good quality photo shop rather than printing them yourself. dont just go to any place with a photo printing machine but go to a photography shop who can print high quality images on good paper. i have found some places like the warehouse dont really have good image quality and the paper is aweful. had some photos printed in australia and they are horrible! looked like they came off a 10 year old inkjet then cut out with a blunt pair of scissors. i cant believe the crap that some peoples memories will be preserved on. then theres the case of people not having paper copies or backing up their images. recipe for disaster | | geek_pixma | July 19, 2008, 10:13 pm | #12 | | I'm sick of spending around $80 for all the new ink, no I refill my own, costs me under $5 fore the whole lot. ;) | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 10:21 pm | #13 | | Yea but it stuffs your printer cause the inks are never right for the heads. | | geek_pixma | July 19, 2008, 10:37 pm | #14 | | been doing it for 6 months now, no problems so far :) | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 10:50 pm | #15 | | The brother i had i used inks form cartridge world and it slowly stuffed the heads. wouldnt print properly. use at your own peril, if it stuffs out then you will have to spend $29 on a new printer!! | | geek_pixma | July 19, 2008, 10:55 pm | #16 | | Lol this printer here is just some 'el chepo cannon (username); lol | | geek_morrisman1 | July 19, 2008, 11:08 pm | #17 | | Printers a disposable now anyway so it doesnt matter. id like to think that people hold onto printers and stuff like that untill it doesnt do the job any longer but us humans arent like that. need the latest and greatest. must consume consume consume. my good old morry uses a bit more fuel than the normal mid 90s jappa runabout on the road today but its much better for the planet to drive around in something like that than it is to go and manufacture another vehicle. tell me if im off topic will you? those people who go out and but a new prius to replace their corolla because 'its more environmentally friendly' need their head read. the only benefit of the prius is that it makes less pollution where it is being driven. it makes up for it in other places. i guess computers arent too bad in manufactuing apart from some nasty chemicals in the components like bromide(?) in the PCBs but its the disposal which is a real issue. plastic everywhere and its not really recyclible. | | geek_pixma | July 19, 2008, 11:23 pm | #18 | | "tell me if im off topic will you?" Yep, you sure are lol!!! Then again, Jap cars are better than Chinese cars lol. Nuclear is what would have provided the power to make the car in Japan, whereas in China, its all COAL. Then again, you have the environmental terrorists that go on about cars being dirty and bad to the enviroment when they drive around in 25 year old ladas and the like ;) | | geek_richard112 | July 20, 2008, 7:06 am | #19 | | Back to printers . Have been using 'black & white' laser printers for some time now, mainly for sharper printing, also cheap to run & heaps faster than an inkjet. I suspect, but not sure that if you want to reproduce photos in greyscale (bw)you buy a printer described in the specs as "monochrome". The others possibly do text ok but pics as a 'line' image, like the crappy image you get from most faxes. I'm not 100% on this & happy to be corrected.
With inkjets, I found refills ok when I used them until the machine was left idle for a while, then terminal blockage. Cure-new machine. | | geek_tigra | July 20, 2008, 10:35 am | #20 | | # 9 thanks paddaricko you seem to be the only person that appreciates what a good deal this was.. Actually I could probably sell it really quickly on TM at $60 anyway and double my money. Tho I dont plan to. | | geek_crab2 | July 20, 2008, 10:56 am | #21 | | Harvey norman birthday sale was only until 6pm last night lol we went in to get a rewritable disk for the camcorder and ended up buying a 42 inch telly. That shop will soon be on our banned list | | geek_baker-assoc | July 20, 2008, 10:59 am | #22 | | if you buy a good quality color laser, Like we did ($1500) the photo quality is jst as good as if you go down to the shop | | geek_pheonix | July 20, 2008, 10:59 am | #23 | | LOL crab2 I can sympathize with you on that ... | | geek_mk3zephyr | July 20, 2008, 11:09 am | #24 | | Did anyone buy one of those el cheapo philips dvd players for $39???, just we bought some for xmas pressies and were wondering if they are ok or just junk | | geek_paddaricko | July 20, 2008, 11:15 am | #25 | | Is that the one with the All Black logo on the front. Good as gold if that's the one. Plays AVI's. | | geek_pheonix | July 20, 2008, 11:16 am | #26 | | Maybe / maybe notPhilips have turned to crap for their DVD and Hard drive recorders. Don't know about the players, but my contact in NEXT servicing is saying they are having major problems with Philips recorders. | | geek_pyro_sniper2002 | July 20, 2008, 11:49 am | #27 | | 11Thats laser printer dependent. The HP photocenters use a laser printer for their photo albums etc and there is nothing wrong with the quality they produce. | | geek_baker-assoc | July 20, 2008, 12:26 pm | #28 | | If you buy a cheap laser you will get what you payed for | | geek_tigra | July 20, 2008, 12:47 pm | #29 | | Lol...crab2 . | | geek_gbbrot | July 20, 2008, 3:08 pm | #30 | | $78.. gota be good.
http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/4882ab7008895eb62740c0a87f3b071e/Product/View/XP999<br />7 | | geek_stardesta | July 20, 2008, 3:11 pm | #31 | | Forget about harvey normans, just purchase from sellers on trademe. Cut out the middle man, and harvey norman is one of the biggest middle men in the world | | geek_paulap | July 20, 2008, 3:11 pm | #32 | | I do love my $9 optical mouse. lol | | geek_gbbrot | July 20, 2008, 9:20 pm | #33 | | .. I will buy from TM when they price realistically. Have a look at any computer category and the are trying to sell above retail price.. of course with no warranty, too. | | geek_tigra | July 21, 2008, 10:56 am | #34 | | Re # 15 We have been using Cartridge World refills on our Brother Laser printers for 4 years now with no noticeable issues. Did some display poster adverts last week with large Reverse type blocks and all perfect. | | Leave your comment: | |
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