Please, for the love of God can someone recommend me a user friendly printer!

I have a 7yo HP Envy with €7 per month Instant Ink subscription for 100 pages, plus 300 reserve. The ink cartridges arrive in plenty of time and are larger than normal.
It’s connected to the home Wi-Fi and picks up any device for simple printing. I manage more complex jobs from the iPad and it has never let me down.

I recommend the New York Times reviews for this sort of thing.
www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/best-home-printers/

Highly recommend a Laserjet over an Inkjet:

1. Lasers are more expensive to buy but cost per print is much much lower
2. Lasers will not dry up through lack of use
3. Lasers are faster at printing
4. Do not update the software if you want to use compatible cartridges (HP)
5. You get what you pay for, but HP & Brother are both good

We got rid and now just go and print at the library!
It's quite expensive but we very rarely print anything, and can both print stuff at work if needed anyway!
We found that every time we needed to use it (every 6 months ish) the ink had dried up and the software needed updating.

I should add, it’s worked for about 3 years now without an issue.

Black and white laser, not inkjet. We paid about £110 quid and it’s great. No frills, just straightforward reliable printing from phones or computer.

Love my Brother MFC-J4340DW after having a previous much hated printer. Ink cartridges lasting ages, bigger paper drawer so I don't have to keep filling it up, ink levels on display all of the time, wireless connectivity great all over the house.
Only thing it's not been great at was accepting photo card, so if you want to print photos, probably don't buy this one.

Get a laser not an inkjet. They are SO much more reliable and the toner cartridges last ages.
We've got an HP laser printer/scanner/copier that is about 8 years old not and still going strong.

Also unless you absolutely must have a colour one, stick with black and white.

I bought a compact hp laser printer/AIO and I love it. It's just black and white though and no good for photos if that's what you need. I still have the old inkjet if I want to fight with it over a photo.

Ink jets are the worst.

Laser much better. You can get a cheap b&w laser for peanuts and the cartridges last forever.

You can get a colour laser which are also pretty good. Just don't use it to print big blocks of colour or else it will get expensive. You don't let your 7 year old loose with one.

Epson ecotank here too. I gave our last cannon one away. Couldn't have anyone part money with a useless machine. .

I kicked my printer to death before I threw it away and it was cathartic.

No, advice but I feel your pain! Every printer I've ever owned has refused to work when I've needed to print an important document urgently, only to suddenly burst into action when I'm printing a silly picture or something else unnecessary.

You can’t have that they don’t exist. The reason a printer can be only £40 is so they make money on cartridges. If you buy a much better printer, you have separate everything g and choice of suppliers.

You get what you pay for and convenience and time saving makes it well worth the money to me, but I’m me you’re you :)

I was going to post a thread asking the same!

But also one that doesn't insist on you changing every ink cartridge when it's only the black one that's run out and you only want to print in black and white....

Oh, and one where they don't charge for the ink like it's made out of powdered gold. A reasonable printer for a reasonable price that can be refilled at a reasonable cost.

My previous HP printer was spared from being lobbed out of a first floor window soley by my reluctance to sweep its shattered components off the driveway.

My Kodak can occasionally be tricked into compliance by faking a calm, leisurely disposition, but like all printers, any hint of adrenaline or cortisol and it will start arsing around.

Since I don't print a huge amount , At 600 it would need to last decades - it would be cheaper to use the local printers

Epson Ecotank.

Don’t get a cheap one. I spent £600 on a colour laser printer from HP suitable for an office and it’s never ever ever ever let me down.

it’s just expensive.

Brother black and white laser printer - one of the cheapest from Argos - has worked sort of for a year now if you are patient

Anything else I use the local printing firm

I took out a loan and bought an Epson Ecotank, and when it dies I'm going to suck up the expense and do it again.

We just got the cheapest one in Argos last week, works just fine!

I have a Canon and fucking hate it

Some bright spark decided it didn't need a button or switch to turn on and off, just a spot that you touch. It gives no feedback to indicate that it's been touched and is actually turning on and just sits there like a stupid lump of fucking plastic.
Then when you've waited for a bit and have assumed that you can't have touched it correctly and touch it again, it immediately leaps into action, turning on, then almost immediately turns off again.

I decided i never need to print in colour so i just got a black and white one - seems to have worked because I've never had a problem with it and it's been giving me low ink warnings for months now and it's still printing fine. It's a HP. The less there is to go wrong, the better.