First check the price of replacement cartridges for a cheap laser printer.
Sometimes they are much more than the printer itself (which has been supplied
with a starter cart that's only 25% full!) There in the business of selling
plastic boxes of extremely expensive black powder. I have a little Brother
which is quite reasonable and I found fresh carts for it online at only 60% of
the cost of a whole new printer!
Andrew Fildes
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On 30/12/2013, at 7:26 PM, Bill Pearce wrote:
> I got one about six months ago from J&R. It is a Ricoh SP100something, and
> produces decent text, better than an inkjet printer does with text. I got it
> because it was on sale for something like $39, only print a few pages a
> week, but never any problems.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Klein
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 10:57 PM
> To: lug ; olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] OT: Home laser printer
>
> I am contemplating buying a black and white home laser printer. Our
> vintage 1994 HP Deskjet 500 finally died. I think I got my money's
> worth out of that one. :-) So I turn to the infinite-seeming knowledge
> base of this group.
>
> Requirements:
> * My wife needs to be able to print a dozen pages per day, give or take,
> of letter-size scratch documents for translation (not final copies,
> those are emailed).
> * The printer must be able to print legal size (8.5x14) as well as
> standard letter size. I don't mind if it must be fed from a secondary
> manual-load tray. I need to print music from PDFs or scanned documents,
> at up to legal size (9x12" sheet music seems to print quite readably on
> legal-size paper, slightly reduced). Any bigger than that, and I'll use
> my Epson R1800 with carbon ink, or go to Kinko's.
> * Reliability is key. I don't want a cheap piece of junk pre-programmed
> to die shortly after the warrantee expires, or to only take overly
> expensive consumables (which is why Lexmark is out).
> * The printer should be networkable, preferably via wireless. I don't
> mind networking via an external network/print box if it will save
> substantial money.
>
> I've pretty much decided on laser rather than inkjet. From what I've
> read, laser means better quality and lower long-term cost (unless you
> folks have different experience). And no clogging. I already have 2
> photo inkjet printers, an Epson R200 for color and an R1800 with
> cartridges hand-filled with MIS Eboni carbon ink for B&W. The latter
> actually prints documents nicely, but I don't want to be filling
> cartridges all the time for my wife's language translation business.
>
> I thought about getting an all-in-one (scan/fax/copy/print). This would
> be convenient some of the time. But my experience at work is that the
> all-in-one's tend to have complex problems. And if the scanner dies, it
> may stop printing, too (firmware self-test failure). Repair is not
> economical, so you have to buy a new one. Also, the all-in-one's need
> for you to install all the manufacturer's software, which in HPs case is
> universally awful. I think I'd be better off with a simple laser printer
> and getting a flatbed for music and old family photo scanning.
>
> I'm inclined towards HP but will entertain other suggestions. This week
> Office Depot/Max and Best Buy all have sales going on. There seem to be
> three price-classes, $150, $250 and $300 on the B&W printer-only models,
> with $30-$50 off this week.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --Peter
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