[Gllug] Looking for a printer recommendation

[Jason Clifford]

On Sun, 4 Sep 2005, Richard Jones wrote:

> Now I have no real idea about printers.  Inkjets are slow and
> expensive to run.  Does this afflict all makes of inkjet?  Last time I
> looked seriously at laser printers they all cost thousands of pounds
> and couldn't print in colour - well, that was 20 years ago.  I had a
> quick look on Google, and it looks like colour laser printers are a
> little bit cheaper now.  Are there any which are cheap to run, even if
> expensive to buy?  And not made by companies like HP which like to
> advertise how many patent monopolies they've been granted?

I bought a Lexmark C510 colour laser printer a few weeks ago for less than 
£200 (plus VAT). The print quality is pretty good and, most importantly, 
it's a proper postscript printer so drivers are not an issue.

The toner isn't too badly priced - about £200 to fill it with separate 
CMYK toners which should last over 6000 pages.

It is a fairly large beast though so you need a bit of spare desk space 
for it - about as much as an old HP LJ4.

Jason
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