The reason why I haven't posted for so long is that I've had the Christmas virus with added catarrh courtesy of my mother. So I've been off work all week but today I have actually been able to hear properly sometimes, which is a definite improvement.

However, my printer has died. It's only four years old too. So I'm after recommendations for a new one (inkjet).

The current one is an Epson C86. Before that I had an HP printer for six years that I only got rid of because it was slow. All I need a printer to do is to print without costing the earth. I did lots of research on this before and ruled out Canon because they didn't bother with a tray for the paper it had printed, which just means it'll throw them everywhere.

A handy list for what I want in a printer:

• cheap - but not so cheap it'll be really crap and fall apart by the end of the year
• a similar size to the current one (460mm wide, 242mm deep, 198mm high)
• a similar print speed to the current one (12ppm colour, 22ppm b&w - but that does seem super-quick to me, so I can definitely cope with slower)
• I like the idea of separate colour cartridges in theory, but given that I either print just black or all colours pretty much equally, I'm not sure it makes much difference
• I don't need it to do anything clever - like scanning or plugging my camera's card straight into it, I just need it to plug into a USB port and print when I tell it.

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