Now word of advice look how much your printing cartridges are before you buy a certain printer. Say you buy a $20 printer and the cartridges cost you $30. I maid this mistake with Lexmark. Great prices on printers, bad prices on ink cartridges. Shop around! If you get a printer you can really cut down your schooling costs!
Also look on eBay for generic cartridges! I was able to get a bunch of black ones for my old ink jet for $10!!
Laser printer!!! I've wasted so much money on ink jets and some of the newer ones make the cartridges to leak on purpose when they are refilled - at least according to a couple ink refill places we went to. We bought a nice printer from HP last year and it might as well be a paper weight! I got only 50 or so pages out of each black cartridge! Our old HP wasn't like that. I tried refilling them myself after the ink places wouldn't do it and sure enough, they leaked! So we bought a $50 brother laser printer and I've printed at least 1000 sheets on the trial cartridge and it's still going. A new cartridge costs about $60 and is for something like 2-3000 copies.
I have a sweet kodak printer it was about 90 but for both color and black cartridge its 25 bucks and they last a long time too like 3 months for mega printing
Yeah I want more info on the printer too! Mine doesn't load right anymore and is always jammed. I need to replace it and would rather get one that prints a ton on a little ink. Thanks!
That's exactly what I'm doing. I'm also using HomeschoolShare.com Honestly, there's enough stuff on there to keep you busy. LessonPathways even has curriculum set up ie what to study for 2nd grade english, science, history etc. I fear that they'll go back to paid memberships so I'm going through everything, picking and choosing, then putting it into a word document so that it's there and ready for me. Edited to add... If you don't want to buy a printer right now you could always check with your library. I print everything there because we only have laptops and I don't want mine bogged down with a printer. It's really cheap for me too. Just a thought.
www.learningpathways.com The Library. I'd scour online for freebie stuff. I'd spend the money on good BASE stuff (Like a good history or Science) and then gear all your other stuff around that base (literature reading, grammar, etc.). www.superteachworksheets.com has a lot of great free stuff, too. subscribe to www.currclick.com and get the weekly newsletter. Each week there is a freebie AND once registered you can search and download all their free products. www.homeschoolshare.com - great lapbook stuff. Hmmmm....hope this helps. It can be done, seriously! I spent about $250 last year for three kids. I got great deals on used items from our homeschooling convention. It was well worth the time and effort to scour through everything. Got a lot of literature for $.25 each. Got our History books and stuff for $2-$5 each. Got my son's Easy Grammar (workbook and TE for $18.00). WELL worth it.
I think you guys were asking for info on the kodak printer, but in case not, here's what I have. I got it on a sale for $50, but I've seen it down to $40 before. I couldn't be more in love with it. http://www.officemax.com/catalog/sku.jsp?productId=prod1280004&history=98s28zt8|prodPage~15^freeText~brother+printer^paramValue~true^refine~1^region~1^param~return_skus@ljx7onxv|prodPage~15^paramValue~true^refine~1^position~16^region~1^param~return_skus^return_skus~Y
I don't know what your plans were for science and history, but I have extras of: Apologia Exploring Creation with AstronomyThe Victor Journey through the BibleStreams of Civilization Vol. IThe Kingfisher History Encyclopedia If you think you can use any of these, I'd be more than happy to give them to you. They're extra copies, so they haven't been used. Let me know. Blessings - Carla
FYI, Amazon has the 2600 page volume print cartridge for it for only 45 bucks! I also read that you can milk all the toner out of the cartridge by covering the sensor window with tape. Can you tell I'm cheap? Lol.
