[Gllug] Looking for a printer recommendation
Jason Clifford
jason at ukpost.com
Mon Sep 5 10:46:48 UTC 2005
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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