Labor Day Printer Deals

It’s back to school time, and looks like stores need to make room for new inventory.  Fry’s Electronics had (one day only) the Canon Pixma MP620 on sale for $79.99.  It includes a USB cable, scans to PDF, does wi-fi and wired networking, so already a bargain.  If it could only do duplex printing (print both sides) too it would be a steal.  For that either look at the Epson Stylus NX415 or wait for the newer model Canon MP640 which goes full auto duplex printing.

Speaking of Epson, Office Depot had $40 off the Stylus NX415/$59.99 and Stylus NX515/$109.99.  The latter does wi-fi and wired networking, but neither includes a USB cable.  At least the Epson models do manual duplex printing and scan to PDF via the software.

And if you were in the market for a laser printer, the Brother HL-2140 was $59.99 at Office Depot.  At these prices, for basically the cost of ink replacements, how wrong can you go?  FYI – These inkjets use 4 or 5 ink colors cartridges which cost about $14 each to replace.  Toner (for laser printers) goes for about $50, but the consumer is still in the dark as there is no printed mL of ink/toner on the packaging!

Wish the All-in-ones here could do legal size printing-scanning-copying.  Not many (?any) do from what I’ve seen.  Oh well, that’s for the next upgrade I guess…