Talk Printers??

I've never looked at any laser printers other than Hewlett Packard. Their ink jets might be crap, but their lasers have always been top notch. :)
 
I think that's an updated version of the one my mum has. If it is, it's not bad at all for the money.
 
neil_g said:
colour lasers are rediculously expensive to run.
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Depends what you're printing. You can get a good couple of thousand prints out of each toner cartridge. Can't say that for inkjet. :)
 
My colour laser works out at about 8p per colour page takeing in to account toner and drum costs.

Problems I have had with samsung colour lasers is that they never use PCL which can occasionally cause problems with some software but most windows apps will print to them no problem.
 
Aye, the maintenance can add up over time for sure. But really, it's cheaper just to buy a new printer every couple of years. ;)
 
I don't know about other manufacturers, but my experience with HP has generally been that they'll carry on the same toner cartridges for at least 3 or 4 generations of a particular line of printer.
 
yeah sorry was more of an inkjet comment my last :)

HP are pretty good for continuation of laser carts (theyd be daft if they werent going by their office customer base), just dont try and run them on "compatible" brands..
 
i worked it out to be 10p per colour print. not bad i thought, main use would be printing A4 photographs, and documents the id just use the inkjet..

cheers for advice guys, may go for the hp, but will look about the weekend..:D
 
westley byford said:
i worked it out to be 10p per colour print. not bad i thought, main use would be printing A4 photographs, and documents the id just use the inkjet..
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Lasers aren't much good for photos, at least not if you want a good result. I have a colour laser (HP CP1217) and wouldn't use it for photos, the quality of the output from either of my inkjets is massively better, even the HP D7360 with super-cheapo CISS.
 
really?? i was told 'by the guys in the shop' that laser's was better..:(

all you guys use inkjet for photos then??
 
which shop?

i dont print my own..

in our design dept we have 2 massive fiery rip colour lasers for proofing but for image quality it always has to be the epson large format ink printer.

laser burns the powdered ink to the paper, its not very good for photos.
 
westley byford said:
really?? i was told 'by the guys in the shop' that laser's was better..:(

all you guys use inkjet for photos then??
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Lasers are fine if you are printing images for newsletters and the like - not for serious photography. Lasers don't print on photo paper either! They use a light glossy paper that isn't like a glossy photograph.

The only option for photos is using an inkjet,

I own both a laser (Lexmark 544dn) and an Epson R2400 inkjet and the inkjet blows away anything the laser produces. I like the laser for printing letters and newsletters with small splashes of colour. It's quick to print many pages and easy to run.

I should add that actually the quality of images on plain paper is slightly better than my inkjet can produce. The images are actually not really bad and if located behind glass would probably just about pass - but the inkjet produces better colour and sharper images that look stunning and can print on a far wider range of papers.

The Samsung printer you are looking is one I looked at but the lexmark gor better reviews (initially I looked at the Lexmark 540 but got the 544dn (duplexing built in) for only about £20 more and it's a faster printer in terms of ppm.

look here

www.printerbase.co.uk
A very good company that I have used a couple of times.

PS the C540 is £150 but you get £75 cash back!!! Excellent if you are thinking of a laser but as stated steer clear of any laser if all you are printing is photos.
If you want a laser - even for photos - the Lexmark is as good as any.
 
cheers guys :thumbs:
it was staples i was looking in..

ok, whats a good inkjet then for around £150, canon, hp, lexmark??
 
I have a small ip6700d I got on ebay for about £40 and it's great for printing CDs which my R2400 doesn't do :(

Nice printer - but A3 is another beast altogether. Depends how serious you are about printing.
 
I've never ever seen a decent colour laser printer.
All the ones I've used are fine for things like Powerpoint presentations and so on, but lack the subtlety needed for decent photographs.

Of course they may exist, just that I haven't come across them yet?
 
There is no photo quality laser printer out there, they don't have the resolution capabilities, great for documents with some colour and images in documents or for draft purposes but not to be used for photo printing. I bought some "glossy" paper for the laser and its a waste of time. The main reason to use colour laser is to reduce printing costs, yes the consumables are expensive to buy £60per toner and £120 per imageing drum but you need to remember they last 2000+ pages per toner and the drum is 20000 pages bear in mind a coulour page passes through the drum 4 times so 5000 colour pages per drum.

Think about an inkjet set of carts cost you £30+, life of them is 200 pages at the most normally printing 5% coverage a photo os almost 100% coverage your going to get 30 pages if your lucky so the cost is about £1 per print. The advantage of ink jet is you can get constant ink systems so you porint using external tanks of ink that you can easilly refill. That is how to reduce your printing costs.
 
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