First up is the big one, a HP LAPTOP! It is a HP G62-a22SA laptop PC. The spec is really quite impressive, it features: Windows 7, Intel Pentium Processor P6000, 3GB memory, 250 GB hard drive, 15.6" HD Brighview LED screen, wireless networking, Bluetooth and a webcam. Value is £399, we have 1 to give away!
DCP-197C All-In-One Printer. What can I say, this is our most popular printer BY FAR. It boasts a compact size for your desktop, 27ppm colour printing and 33 ppm mono printing. Up to A4 borderless printing and takes individual inks (black, cyan, magenta and yellow) saving you money by only replacing the ink that you need. It has a high resolution colour scanner and you can print direct from camera via the PictBridge connection. USB Host and Media Card Centre (print and scan) and includes FREE document management software. And last but certainly not least it is EnergyStar certified meaning lower energy usage. We have put this printer through the rigours of a busy office enviroment and it has never let us down. Value £73.80, we have 1 to give away.
Pentel Energel Sterling Liquid Gel Rollerball Pen. This is a really nice pen, it is 0.7mm medium rollerball with quick drying ink and its refillable. I recently went to a seminar and used this pen and I didn't get that fatigue you get from writing non stop all day! Value approx £8, we have 5 to give away.
LC-985. Available individually and in a quad pack. I like the new designs of the packaging, with the moon, sun and earth.
Not sure about the packaging on this one! I don't fancy Mr Fox looking daggers at me! I quite often get customers asking for the picture on the front and the colour (i.e a black duck) so now I will be asked for a pink fox!
Very Garden Of Eden. Blue apple anyone?
Lots of discussion on this one. John is adamant that it is a reindeer even though it is blatantly obvious it is a red deer. If you are phoning us and get to talk to John just say "it's a red deer ok" it will make his day! 
Putting a Kodak 7" Digital Photo Frame in the post to Northern Ireland. We are giving away Papermate pens with any order (while stocks last) and a photo frame once a day. All you have to do is place an order to be in with a chance! Hurry we will only be running this for one more week!
Ok so we are on the next lot of goodies! For any order placed you will receive a Papermate Flexigrip Gel 0.7 pen (blue ink).
Drove on beautiful avenued roads....
Here are some price comparisons you might find interesting! These prices are correct on 07/09/10. All comparisons are for the Epson T0715 genuine (as pictured above) and compatible quad packs.
Brother printers are well built and have a wide range of specifications to suit most requirements. They all take brand new replacement inks and the cartridges do not have microchips on them. They are multi cartridge machines and work well with compatible inks. The cartridges hold a good amount of ink with little wastage and I believe are the best value per page when using compatible inks. Brother printers have fixed print heads that clog up over time causing banding (lines from left to right on your printout) and complete blocking. The only remedy is to do regular print head cleaning from new, don't wait until you have a problem. Using the compatible ink will probably shorten the life of your printer but by the time it happens you should have saved enough money to replace it several times over.
Lexmark printers mostly have the print head built into the ink cartridge. These printers are cheap to buy but tend to be expensive to buy replacement inks for. A lot of people once they have purchased a cheap printer are shocked to find that one set of replacement inks cost more than the printer did! You wouldn't believe how many people come into the shop and find out the price and watching their faces fall when they realise that their printer is not a bargain after all is horrible. Lexmark also restrict where they sell certain cartridge models to keep the price unrealistically high and also try to restrict the supply of recycled cartridges to the remanufacturers for the same reason. Remanufactured cartridges are available but only for a couple of product lines, meaning you have to buy the genuine cartridges, there is no alternative. Lexmark printers mainly take two cartridges (one black one colour) so you are back to the old problem of when one colour ink runs out you have to replace the whole cartridge, throwing out ink in the process and wasting money. The printers themselves are good quality but the price of running them is prohibitive. The phrase I hear most when a customer is buying a set of Lexmark inks is "it would be cheaper to buy a new printer" and guess what it is TRUE! So my best advice is not to buy a Lexmark and save yourself some pennies!
Canon are another quality make of printer witha mix of ink cartridge types. The multi cartridge printers take the brand new replacement cartridges, which seem to be very reliable. Some people sell replacement cartridges that do not have a microchip on - these are very cheap and you have to take the microchip off the genuine cartridge and put it on the replacement, this is not a satisfactory solution. If the microchip has the slightest little mark or scratch it won't work and you have wasted your money. These printers have fixed print heads that clog up over time causing banding (lines from left to right on your printout) and eventually complete blocking. The only remedy is to do regular print head cleaning from new, don't wait until you have a problem. The majority of these printers have replaceable print heads, when the print head will not clear by doing multiple print head cleans you can easily remove the whole print head. This allows you to soak the print head in tepid water (boiled and then cooled to make sure it is pure) to try to dissolve the dried inks and clear the jets. Try to do this in a way that does not damage the contacts and try not to get covered in ink! When you get to this stage it is kill or cure so its worth a go and is surprisingly effective and can be done several times successfully if you are careful. If this does not work replacement print heads are available for most printers from Canon but you will have to weigh up the benefits as they can be as expensive as buying a new printer. 
OK back to business. Hewlett Packard (HP) are a quality make of printer with a wide range of models to suit most requirements. Many of the printers have the print head built into the ink cartridge. The genuine ink cartridges are widely available and quite expensive. The remanufactured cartridges are readily available and are generally good value compared to the genuine cartridges. The remanufactured cartridges are fairly reliable, they are not as cheap or as reliable as the brand new replacements that are available for other types of printer. As the remanufactured cartridges depend on recycled cartridges there is usually a lag of up to a year from the time a new model of cartridge is launched to sufficient empty cartridges being available to make the remanufactured cartridges readily available. Not all new printers use new model cartridges so check before you buy! HP does not list the ml on the packaging, instead they say how many pages the cartridge will do. For example HP22 says 165 pages, which is 5ml of ink in each colour. The 165 pages is at 5% coverage which is not a lot and I think is very misleading.
