Re: Laser printers any advice?

Adam Aglionby

On Jun 28, 11:51 pm, "Feenee" <> wrote:
> "Adam Aglionby" <> wrote in message
>
> news:1182602307.556842.221610@n60g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...
> Thought this would have come up recently but not according to Google
> groups, anyway looking for low cost , purchase and running, mono laser
> printer.
>
> >>etc
>
> The other part of your question was about a cheap colour...
>
> Have a look at the HP K550 inkjet- it's an office colour inkjet currently
> touted as 30% cheaper to print than a laser and the fastest inkjet in the
> world. With duplex and network from Misco for £50!!!
>
> Feenee
added crosspost to alt.comp.peripherals.printers

Was thinking of older HPs for their legendary reliabilty and hoping
could pick one up locally,getting a bit long in tooth to bother with
taking a punt on an ebay one posted.

At cheap end of mono laser line are the Samsungs which accordin to
this site have lower cost per page than the cheap HPs:



Samsung ML-2570 Running Cost Guide: 5% 1.53p, 20% 6.12p

HP LaserJet 1018 Running Cost Guide: 5% 1.9p, 20% 7.6p

This will be with using manufacturers consumables, rather than refill
or compatible.

At these sort of per page costs , colour laser dosen`t look
horrifically more expensive to run, bit more to purchase but more
versatility:

Xerox Phaser 6110 Running Cost Guide: 5% 2.81p, 20% 10.7p

HP Color LaserJet 2600n Running Cost Guide: 5% 1.79p, 20% 7.16p

Can find out very little about the Xerox aprt from it apparently uses
solid inks, the HP is really a Canon with an HP badge stuck on the
front, aware that non windows driver support is flakey, and compatible
and refills for this model really dont work well:



Really need laser for printing waterproof serial and ID tags for
items, ability to add colour to tag would be handy.

Even the Epson Durabrite inks on `waterproof` media are not very
enduring. Will keep trusty R200 for photo printing, did consider
converting to bulk ink tanks but it still isn`t waterproof.

Any experience of any of the above models or any suggestions.

Thanks
Adam

Gavin

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:04:21 -0000, Adam Aglionby <>
wrote:

>Xerox Phaser 6110 Running Cost Guide: 5% 2.81p, 20% 10.7p
>
>Any experience of any of the above models or any suggestions.
>

we used to use Phasers when they were under the Textronix brand. they
are effectivly inkjets but using wax, and the colours are fantastic,
they are so deep and vibrant they really make colour toner type lasers
look washed out.

Drawbacks are they tend to need to stay on rather than turned on, on
demand, so it depends how heavy use it will get as to if it's viable
for you.

We only got rid of ours as the we standardised on a corporate colour
laser, and they were getting old and needed more amd more requent
maintainaince, but they had 5 years of solid service before we got rid
of them.