In my experience, the lower-end HP printers are not fantastic for printing photographs.
I did have a mid-range HP Photo printer a few years back and that did do a good job, but was expensive to run.
I can recommend the Canon MG/Pixma series printers - the ones with the 4-digit numbers rather than 3 - as most include duplex (both sides) printing, have a separate cartridge for each colour (cheaper to replace) and give very good print quality (I have the MG5250). These can be had for between ~ £45 and £65.
Compatible cartridges are cheap too and work perfectly - try Prink online - I pay £7 for a full set of 5 cartridges.
Hope that helps!
(Voted Hot on this deal though, on price alone :wink: )

​Thanks. Might look at this.

Although a month less of ink :wink:

Will probably hold more paper and be easier to manage.

Yes comes with the ink cartridges

Comes with starter inks, then if you subscribe to the instant ink you get new ones sent, mine came within a week.

YEP!, VERY!. :-(

Hence such 'Deals' tend to go down veryyyyyyy well?!. :-)

Cheapo generic Cartridges are another viable alternative mind, to that of totally free ...

YES!!! But th elowest level of the plan is only £1.99/mth. That's pretty damn cheap to me, even for light printing. Convenience is what you are getting.

That's a shame, as like some of the earlier other's, I had looked to bag me one of these too at some point?, hmmmmmmmmmmm, no big, lol. :-)

1) YES, there are 2 packs of ink in the box you can use straight off regardless of whether you join the `instant ink` scheme, colour and black?
2) NO, there is no extra box of `instant ink` in the box as well. Once you have registered for the instant ink trial, I believe that they will send you some carts. I got my email to say they were being shipped within 2 days, and had printed nothing.
3) NO, you do not HAVE to register and activate the `instant ink` service when you insert the carts (Because you may not want the trial), BUT if you want the instant ink trial, you need to sign up for it within a few days of activating the printer is my understanding. I'm assuming if you want the instant ink trial, you will simply sign up immediately.
4) YES - Once registered you select a usage level? 1= £1.99 for 50 pages 2=£3.49 for 100 pages 3=£7.99 for 300 pages
5) YES - The £7.99 option is the best value even if you don't use that much as the pages roll over to the next month
6) NO - They do not roll over for more than 1 month. I *think* you would have the last months worth of pages that rolled over, but that would be it. At absolute best you would get 300 pages roll over on the last month and only for one month. After that, any rollover would have disappeared
7) I THINK SO - After `instant ink` I would assume you can put normal cartridges in, BUT, cartridges are not cheap, so do the maths of buying new carts over say the £1.99/mth plan. Personally I think the plan is a better deal, even on the lowest level.
8.) HELL NO - LOL, Compatibles for these have never been cheap to my knowledge. If you are looking to run with compatibles, Epson is usually a better bet, but, the lower level plan usage for me still trumps the compatibles. I ahve an Epson as it is and have just bought the HP Envy 5546 with a 9 month free trial. Pros and Cons of Genuine vs compatible, and often down to usage. As an example though, if I buy a set of good compatibles for my Epson (Ones I trust), I am looking at about £3.50/cart for all 4 carts, so tends to vary between £14-£16 a throw. If I do that twice a year, that's dearer than the £1.99/mth deal on 50 pages, and cheaper than the £3.49 deal for 100 pages/mth.

This deal is on page count, not ink usage, so if you are printing a lot of photographs, I would venture that this is a far better deal than compatibles.

1. They are both a instant ink cartridge and a normal cartridge and will behave which ever way you want them to depending if you take advantage of the Instant ink trail.
2. No - Just a Colour and Black instant ink enabled cartridge, or a setup cartridge.
3. Yes as above.
4. Yes pick a plan that you would like, always choose the 300 pages as this will give you an idea of how many pages you printer per month for you to make a informed choice at the end of the 5 month trail.
5. Yes
6. No only rolls over from the previous month.
7. Yes
8. No, not compared to the cost of instant ink v's compatible.

Link please

​Quidco still down at the moment :disappointed:

How much was it instore?