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Our two printers are on the fritz. I’m currently hand writing a small invoice to slip in with our packages. I do have a DYMO for my shipping labels. I would like to get a reliable printer for invoices that has cheap ink refills, I prefer not to refill ink if I don’t have to.
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Ryanne lists the one she and Jay use in the resources tab, that is unless they have changed it. I bought the suggested Brother laser printer couple years ago. Only I got the wireless model. It sits over by my shipping station loaded with adhesive labels, 2 up on a sheet. I just click to buy my label, send to that printer and by the time I walk over there the label is sitting in the printer tray.
Ryanne also did a video on how she refilles her’s but Brother got msart and starting making it much harder to do your own efills. The plug is very hard to remove, a screw has to come out and other stuff. So, I skipped refilling after the first go and have just bought a laser toner refill on my Staples account when needed. It is also deleivered to my office door w/ free shipping.
The Brother cost me about $50 a few years back and the refile toner is about $35. I got close to 4,000 pages +/- out of that cartridge. [that’s 8,000 labels at 2 per sheet]. That’s about 1 penny per label not counting the label sheet. I wonder how much savings these Dymo printers really save since they are so expensive. But we don’t do a large volume anyway.At that low price I consider the laser printer disposable anyway but it is still working fine. I only do labels on it. We have a second all in one for our regular office documents. Since you already have a Dymo for your labels, then a cheap black only laser printer would probably do you just fine and after very case of 4-5,000 sheets, just replace with a refill. Cheap enough.
Just my opinion for what that is worth. Mike Collins at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
Good luck
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Hi Mike, I used to refill my inkjet printers, and even though I am thrifty…somethings you just have to splurge on. I just want it to be the “cheapest” splurge possible. I have seen the Brother laser printer that Ryanne has recommended and I do want to go wireless too. At approx. 4000 sheets per toner I think I will pull the trigger this week after seeing if there will be any Black Friday deals. Thanks for your advise. Sharon
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I recently ran into a similar problem. My Inkjet ran out of ink and my backup cartridge was defective. I refused to go to a store and pay retail for a new cartridge.I purchased a variation of the Brother laser printer Ryanne recommends.
Due to it being on sale (Lucky for me), I bought the Brother HL-L2380. It was on sale for $99 plus tax and came with a starter toner cartridge, which is supposed to be good for about 700 copies.
I couldn’t be happier with this purchase. It only prints with black ink, which is just fine for me.
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yeah i love my brother printer, this is the newest version of the one i have–
https://goo.gl/k7gcEQ
and it’s been great and very economical, esp when you can refill the toner yourself. this is my video on how to do that–
i also use a Dymo 450 thermal label printer for USPS ebay labels and love it. no toner to refill ever, though it only does USPS labels, not Fedex or Intl.
https://goo.gl/XE5IB5 -
I’ve heard good things about the Epson Ecotank inkjet printers. Instead of cartridges, it is designed so you buy refill ink, which they sell very affordably. The machine itself is fairly expensive, though. If you print a lot of color photos or documents in addition to your eBay needs, the cost per print is probably comparable to a laser.
I use a wireless color laser printer by Brother. Found it at a church sale a few years ago for $15. Don’t really use it much anymore, though, because I switched to a Zebra thermal printer for labels and I don’t include invoices in my shipments unless the customer requests it.
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When my last inkjet printer died I bought an Epson Ecotank inkjet printers. The printer is more expensive but the ink really is dirt cheap. They sell it with 2 years of ink for the average user. I was using it to print labels every day so I had to get more black ink well before the 2 year mark. Another “2 years” of black ink goes for $12 on amazon
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