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I want to buy a printer. The last one I had died when the ink cost $70-80
and I knew the new laser jets were going for a little over $100.

I only print 6-8 pages/month. B/W only. Any brand name printer
reccomendations?

Thanks,
Bob
 
I want to buy a printer. The last one I had died when the ink cost
$70-80 and I knew the new laser jets were going for a little over $100.

I only print 6-8 pages/month. B/W only. Any brand name printer
reccomendations?

Thanks,
Bob
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I'm pretty happy with the bottom line HP PSC. Although the feeder broke, a
PSC 1410. cost me $70 but replacement cartridges costs $15-20 each.

It replaced Visioneer scanner and Lexmark printer. Loved Lexmark too but
the ink cartridges dried out within 2 months and replacements cost $30-40
each. Had enough when a brand new cartridge dried out in less than 2
weeks. I print even fewer pages than you.

The bundled software suite sucks big time but the PSC works fine
in XP and works even better under Linux. Prints envelopes and labels.
 
bob said:
I want to buy a printer. The last one I had died when the ink cost $70-80
and I knew the new laser jets were going for a little over $100.

I only print 6-8 pages/month. B/W only. Any brand name printer
reccomendations?

Thanks,
Bob
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Hi,

Yes, with your low volume of printer, a monochrome laser printer is
definetly the direction you want to go since laser toner doesn't dry out
like ink.

As for brand, individual printer model quality seems to flucuate more than
brand, so I don't think there really is a "top brand".

I got a new printer not to long ago. My printing needs are similiar to
yours, except that I may go a month or two without needing to print -- but
when I do print, I usually print hundreds of pages at a time. (Manuals,
schems, etc.)

I bought an HP Laserjet 1020 (monochrome laser) and it filled my need
perfectly. Bought it on sale from Newegg, prints quickly, great B/W
quality, etc. The 1020's are cheap and sold virtually everywhere. There
are a few things that may be a disadvantage with the 1020 though: its a
"win"-printer (there are Linux drivers also), so needs to be hanging off a
computer. You can't just plug it into an ethernet drop and run it
standalone. Also when you print on both sides of paper (manually), the heat
causes the paper to curl a bit. (It uncurls as the paper cools down
though.)
 
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