Help me buy my new printer
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Hey everyone! I'm finally back from my long examination isolation and you cant tell how I miss the CP and the CPians:) Anyways, I'm thinking of buying a printer, an efficient laser one with a reasonable price ie around 100-120, probably HP, can you tell me what would you get or what specs should I be looking at when picking a printer?? Thank you guys ps. I'm not even sure if a colored printer would be trouble some in the ink usage, please advise on that too. Many thanks guys!
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Hey everyone! I'm finally back from my long examination isolation and you cant tell how I miss the CP and the CPians:) Anyways, I'm thinking of buying a printer, an efficient laser one with a reasonable price ie around 100-120, probably HP, can you tell me what would you get or what specs should I be looking at when picking a printer?? Thank you guys ps. I'm not even sure if a colored printer would be trouble some in the ink usage, please advise on that too. Many thanks guys!
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
I have a brother b/w laser that has lasted through a cross country move and regular use and it is over 4 years old. Model number HL4500 HL2040. I've been real happy with it. Never fails. I also have a Samsung color laser that is the size of a house and sits on my desk. I like that one too but it takes forever to start up. IMO stay away from ink jet if you plan to do a lot of printing. Lasers are more expensive up front but cost less to run and maintain.
Is the glass half full, half empty... or twice as large as it needs to be?
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Hey everyone! I'm finally back from my long examination isolation and you cant tell how I miss the CP and the CPians:) Anyways, I'm thinking of buying a printer, an efficient laser one with a reasonable price ie around 100-120, probably HP, can you tell me what would you get or what specs should I be looking at when picking a printer?? Thank you guys ps. I'm not even sure if a colored printer would be trouble some in the ink usage, please advise on that too. Many thanks guys!
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Muammar© wrote:
Help me buy my new printer
What? You want us to drive you to the store?? Pay for it maybe?? :-D
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I have a brother b/w laser that has lasted through a cross country move and regular use and it is over 4 years old. Model number HL4500 HL2040. I've been real happy with it. Never fails. I also have a Samsung color laser that is the size of a house and sits on my desk. I like that one too but it takes forever to start up. IMO stay away from ink jet if you plan to do a lot of printing. Lasers are more expensive up front but cost less to run and maintain.
Is the glass half full, half empty... or twice as large as it needs to be?
aptbid2002 wrote:
Lasers are more expensive up front but cost less to run and maintain.
Fully agreed. Color laser prints cost less than 5 cents per page while inkjets cost 4 to 8 times that. I have found that color lasers are not that good at photos though.
John
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Hey everyone! I'm finally back from my long examination isolation and you cant tell how I miss the CP and the CPians:) Anyways, I'm thinking of buying a printer, an efficient laser one with a reasonable price ie around 100-120, probably HP, can you tell me what would you get or what specs should I be looking at when picking a printer?? Thank you guys ps. I'm not even sure if a colored printer would be trouble some in the ink usage, please advise on that too. Many thanks guys!
All generalizations are wrong, including this one! (\ /) (O.o) (><)
There are a few criterions you can use to sort through the bazillions of printers available. If you NEED color, get a printer with seperate tanks for color. Be sure it can print without color cartridges inserted, because otherwise you cannot print your b/w-letter because yellow is empty (been there). If you can do with a laser, 100 to 120 will get you a decent printer. I've bought a new Samsung ML2010R for 49 EUR, and it has printed 2000 pages with the first cartridge, 2100 so far with the second one. The prints have been very stable, but the "eco"-mode prints seem to be a little on the bright side. Right now, I am looking for a source for refilled cartridges. They apparently cost less than half of the original cartridges, and I am willing to take any risk, because the loss is managable.
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Muammar© wrote:
Help me buy my new printer
What? You want us to drive you to the store?? Pay for it maybe?? :-D
A guide to posting questions on CodeProject[^]
Dave Kreskowiak Microsoft MVP Visual Developer - Visual Basic
2006, 2007, 2008 -
There are a few criterions you can use to sort through the bazillions of printers available. If you NEED color, get a printer with seperate tanks for color. Be sure it can print without color cartridges inserted, because otherwise you cannot print your b/w-letter because yellow is empty (been there). If you can do with a laser, 100 to 120 will get you a decent printer. I've bought a new Samsung ML2010R for 49 EUR, and it has printed 2000 pages with the first cartridge, 2100 so far with the second one. The prints have been very stable, but the "eco"-mode prints seem to be a little on the bright side. Right now, I am looking for a source for refilled cartridges. They apparently cost less than half of the original cartridges, and I am willing to take any risk, because the loss is managable.
Thanks Sebastian, I found Samsung ML2010R here and I think I'll go for it, and I think you're right about the refill cuz one original toner costs more than half the price of a printer so it doesnt really matter if the printer got damaged after the 10th refill:) Thanks again for your help mate!
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