What is a good type of laser printer?

Question

How much does one cost? What Brand?

Answer 1

The HP mentioned above is not laser....but a darn good inkjet printer.

My deciding factor when choosing a machine is the consumables. In monochrome laser, I stay away from machines that have a separate drum unit and toner cartridge, including some models of Brother and Xerox. I prefer HP and Samsung where the toner and drum are in one handy, little cartridge. You can get an HP LaserJet 1018 for $65 US. Not the fastest printer in the world at 12 ppm, but it does me just fine.

In color laser, some manufacturers like Oki and Konica Minolta have a long list of items that need replacing (toner cartridges, imaging drum, transfer belt, fuser, waste toner hopper). Color laser will have a separate drum unit, but with HP and Samsung, toner and drum is all you need.

You will decide what you want to spend on a printer, but you have no control over the cost of the consumables and that's what you'll be paying for over and over.

Answer 2

What do you mean by "type" of laser? Laser printer itself is a type. :) It's like asking what kind of sedan is a sedan. :D

A laser printer can cost as low as $120 to high of over $10000 depending on speed, paper size, paper handling, networking, and other options.

For personal use, HP has the Laserjet 10xx series. Relatively small paper tray (about 150 sheets or so) but otherwise all you need in a laser, at 8 pages per minute (ppm) of Letter/A4 size. Oki, Brother, and many others have similar models.

For more money, you're basically paying for speed, (some can go up to 25 ppm, or even faster), ability to network (no need to pay for a separate "print server"), two-sided printer (built in duplexer), bigger paper trays (some can rival photocopiers in size, and accepts THOUSANDS of pages). Some can even be had as multi-function machines, with built-in scanner, copier, fax, and so on.

Your question is too generic to give you any specific recommendations.

Answer 3

I think the best printer I have ever come across quality-wise was the OKI C3100, but if you want one for home use, you won't go wrong with HP Deskjet F380. It is the one I've got and I'm happy with the results.
As to price I would suggest shopping around a few computer stores and get a great deal.
Hope that helped