Laser recommendations...

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Sensei

Hi!

I'm looking for a nice color laser printer for my lab. I hope you can
help me in choosing one with pros and cons :)

My specifications are easy: laser technology, color with separate
toners (black and colors, not necessarily separate colors C-Y-M),
ethernet, automatic duplex and below $900.

I found some HP without duplex, some epsons, but I don't really know...
it's my first laser!
 
Sensei said:
Hi!

I'm looking for a nice color laser printer for my lab. I hope you can
help me in choosing one with pros and cons :)

My specifications are easy: laser technology, color with separate
toners (black and colors, not necessarily separate colors C-Y-M),
ethernet, automatic duplex and below $900.

I found some HP without duplex, some epsons, but I don't really know...
it's my first laser!

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I recommend that you look at the OKI range of laser colour printers, they are
currently amongst the best available for cost per page and purchase price. They
are well built, and extremely reliable. In some countries OKI have a larger
market share in colour lasers than HP. Their photo quality is very high, for
the non professional photographer more than high enough. They have separate
toners and drums for all 4 colours, all user replaceable as are the fusers and
transfer belt. All of the functions you mention are available together with a
straight paper path which allows printing on heavy laser card and banner
printing.
Whatever you decide look at the total cost of ownership including frequency and
cost of replacement of toner, drums, fuser and transfer belt....all of these
need replacement from time to time in laser printers.
Tony
 
I am really pissed off about printer companies right now, so maybe I am
not the right person to ask. I have an HP LaserJet 1100A. HP screwed
up the design of the separator pad and it wore out just about the time
the 1 year warranty was up. This was not just on my machine, but *ALL*
of them. In fact, there was a class action suit that only resulted in
HP giving away discount coupons on more HP stuff!!! That really made
my day.

Then I got an Epson C80 inkjet for Christmas a few years back and found
that if you don't use it on a regular basis, the print heads dry up and
the machine is useless. The print heads are not replaced with the ink
cartridges. I ran into an Epson salesman in BestBuy when they were
doing a printer promo and he admited this, claimed they fixed it in the
C81 printers. A friend actually got Epson to replace her machine for
not printing right and got a C81 as replacement. It did the same thing
after a month or two. They replaced it with a C82 and same problem...
replaced it with another C82 and now it prints ok, but eats ink like it
is candy.

Printers are either very inexpensive to buy and very expensive to
operate, or expensive to buy and cheaper to operate, but don't keep
working. Compared to PCs, printers seem to be real crap!!!

Good luck on what ever you pick, I expect you will need it!
 
Consider closely all consumables, like toner, drum, fuser, fuser oil,
etc. Look at cost per copy, and don't be folled by cheap acquisition
cost when you get nearly empty toner cartridges. Starter cartridges may
have only 1500 or less prints at 5%. Refill cartridges may have 300, or
7000 copies or more,

Art
 
The designing and calibration on laser printer are based on commo
photocopy paper (70 g / sq m). If increasing paper thickness, th
color saturation of printing quality will be degreed. If pape
surface of thick paper (over 200gsm) has positive polarity to hel
toner transfer completely from OPC drum to paper. Low end lase
printer, 600 dpi plus PCL printing language, is enough
 
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