Any good advice on a good LASER PRINTER for good quality text and medium quality graphics?

Question

Hi,
As most of the people that had bad experiences with printers, I am trying to find something that I can rely on when I need it.

I have a inject printer that just dried its ink and that after buying new ink wasted everything to get it fixed.

I have decided to buy a good laser printer but now that I found a lot of "goods and bads" on many of these printers I just don't know what to aim for.

what would you recommend as a good laser printer. Price can be around 300.00 but I am not sure about the consumables that get your pocket going every month. Will it be better to find a high printer with low cost ink or a low cost printer with hight cost ink? I am interested in good quality text and medium quality graphics.

Thank you

Answer 1

Yo be honest it's a VERY difficult question to answer . . .
To assess the quality of a printer, I'd suggest creating a PDF file of a document of the type you require to print, take this file on a memory key to a dealer, and ask if they can print it on the machines that seem interesting.

Costs are another issue. Ask the dealer for the list of consumables, some colour machines can have 8 to 10 consumables between toners, drums and waste bottles, but they last a LOT longer than inkjet consumables. Ask for their "rated life" which will be based on 5% coverage suually and a particular print cycle. Then look at costs of them and calculate a guestimate of cost per 25,000 pages use for each machine, add this to purchase price.

Clearly I don't know hpw much you will print, but most businesses that print a large volume tend to go for HP (Certainly in the UK)

However you asked in your email about something costing about 300 . . . but failed to mention a currency, even in the UK 300 pounds willONLY buy you a very basic colour laser, such as a Konica Minolta Magicolour 2400 (or current equivalent) These produce good prints but cost more per page to run.

A low end HP will cost more to buy, buy will generally give a lower per page costing.

Answer 2

You have placed the most dificult question of the printing business and thats the reason there is no answer so far.

Cheap printers running cost is more. Costly printers running cost is less. You need to estimate how much prints you are going to take in next three years. Calculate the print cost for those many prints and add the printer cost to it. Now you will be able to judge exactly which model or brand to buy.

Personaly I recomend Xerox Phaser series printers or Samsung printers.

Xerox Phaser 3150 is a good choice at $349
http://www.office.xerox.com/printers/laser-printers/enus.html

Samsung ML2250
http://www.samsung.com/us/consumer/detail/detail.do?group=printersmultifunction&type=printersmultifunction&subtype=monochromelaserprinters&model_cd=ML-2250/XAA

Answer 3

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