Color laser printers - recommendations please.
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Last time around I bought the (then) best-reviewed HP 2550. Yes, it was huge, noisy and tricksy to refill but I'd have not minded if it had worked. Sadly the paper handling system was *rubbish* and it ended up jamming after printing just a couple of pages. The beastie would mainly be used for presentations - paper only with charts/diagrams rather than photo-quality images. Speed a factor but much less important than: a) reliability - it _has_ to work. Every time. b) no requirements to install copious quantities of vendor specific software tat (thanks HP) c) cheaper toner costs good but pretty essential that consumables be limited to toner. I hate the idea of littering the planet with drums. d) quiet is good. e) reasonably simple to sort if paper does jam (waay ack in the day my HPLJII would print 10'000's of thousands of pages w/o a murmur. What happened?) f) 'workgroup' capabilities not a requirement - much more the case that this is used at high intensity infrequently. I'd settle for USB if simpler to setup/maintain than wireless. How much am I willing to pay? Up to £400 ~ US$800 let's say. Any recommendations/war stories welcomed. Thx++ Jerry P.S. Who wants a great big lump of plastic with 2550 on the badge?
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Last time around I bought the (then) best-reviewed HP 2550. Yes, it was huge, noisy and tricksy to refill but I'd have not minded if it had worked. Sadly the paper handling system was *rubbish* and it ended up jamming after printing just a couple of pages. The beastie would mainly be used for presentations - paper only with charts/diagrams rather than photo-quality images. Speed a factor but much less important than: a) reliability - it _has_ to work. Every time. b) no requirements to install copious quantities of vendor specific software tat (thanks HP) c) cheaper toner costs good but pretty essential that consumables be limited to toner. I hate the idea of littering the planet with drums. d) quiet is good. e) reasonably simple to sort if paper does jam (waay ack in the day my HPLJII would print 10'000's of thousands of pages w/o a murmur. What happened?) f) 'workgroup' capabilities not a requirement - much more the case that this is used at high intensity infrequently. I'd settle for USB if simpler to setup/maintain than wireless. How much am I willing to pay? Up to £400 ~ US$800 let's say. Any recommendations/war stories welcomed. Thx++ Jerry P.S. Who wants a great big lump of plastic with 2550 on the badge?
Cheap lasers spray toner all over the page, most of it doesn't stick and is wasted. Check the lifetime of the part named 'waste toner bottle' - be concerned if it's less than a small multiple of the toner cartridge life or drum life. We have a Tally T8024 printer, but it cost a lot to acquire in the first place. On this printer the waste toner collects in the drum cartridge which lasts around 35,000 pages. We're about to replace the drum for the second time, it's now done over 57,000 sides (it prompts for a drum 'needing replacement' long before it stops actually printing). Its cheaper sibling the 8108N[^] allegedly has a drum that lasts the life of the printer, but since you can't change it that's a self-fulfilling prophecy! The charging capability of the drum does start to wear off over time and usage. The printer manufacturers haven't done very well at setting up component recycling schemes in the UK.
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Cheap lasers spray toner all over the page, most of it doesn't stick and is wasted. Check the lifetime of the part named 'waste toner bottle' - be concerned if it's less than a small multiple of the toner cartridge life or drum life. We have a Tally T8024 printer, but it cost a lot to acquire in the first place. On this printer the waste toner collects in the drum cartridge which lasts around 35,000 pages. We're about to replace the drum for the second time, it's now done over 57,000 sides (it prompts for a drum 'needing replacement' long before it stops actually printing). Its cheaper sibling the 8108N[^] allegedly has a drum that lasts the life of the printer, but since you can't change it that's a self-fulfilling prophecy! The charging capability of the drum does start to wear off over time and usage. The printer manufacturers haven't done very well at setting up component recycling schemes in the UK.
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Hi Mike Thanks - nearly ending up selecting an OKI out of desperation. The 8108 looks like a good thing, I'll have a poke around to see if anything else comes up.