I'm pretty excited about the price of color lazer priinters.
Dennis Rech
>
>Under $1000CDN for some models.
>I've never had a laser printer.
>Is there a downside to color lasers?
>How much cheaper is the print than my HP Deskjet 1220?
>Is the ink water proof and colorfast, or does it fade?
>Thanks.
Using my QMS and HP color lasers as examples and comparing them to my
Epson C80 and 1280 here are my opinions.
Inkjets cost per 8 x 10 photo =$1.25
Black text page =$0.20
Laser cost per 8 X 10 full color photo = $0.13
Black text page = $0.03
The inkjets will give much more photo realistic pictures than lasers
if you use premium glossy paper.
The laser jets will give very good quality graphics quality color
prints that are not quite photo realistic.
The 1280 is really, really good.
The Epson C80 inks are nearly water and fade proof.
The laser prints are as water proof as the paper and fade resistant.
Get a laser if you need a large quanity of the same poster or flyer.
Get an ink jet if you need a few quality pictures.
As far as I am concerned, the biggest drawbacks of color lasers are
long warm up times ( five minutes) and noise.
Dennis
Taliesyn
> On Mon, 08 Sep 2003 14:14:24 -0700, RobM...@no.mail wrote:
>
>
>>Under $1000CDN for some models.
>>I've never had a laser printer.
>>Is there a downside to color lasers?
>>How much cheaper is the print than my HP Deskjet 1220?
>>Is the ink water proof and colorfast, or does it fade?
>>Thanks.
>
> Using my QMS and HP color lasers as examples and comparing them to my
> Epson C80 and 1280 here are my opinions.
>
> Inkjets cost per 8 x 10 photo =$1.25
> Black text page =$0.20
>
> Laser cost per 8 X 10 full color photo = $0.13
> Black text page = $0.03
And since I refill my inkjet using quality bulk ink my costs are equal
to or less than the cost of running a laser.
-Taliesyn
BF
By refilling, my cost for an 8 X 10 is about $.60 Still a long way from
$.13 but I looked close at a laser print the other day and it was really
pretty bad compared to what I am use to with my Canon i950. I guess there is
an argument both ways.
Eric Witte
> By refilling, my cost for an 8 X 10 is about $.60 Still a long way from
> $.13 but I looked close at a laser print the other day and it was really
> pretty bad compared to what I am use to with my Canon i950. I guess there is
> an argument both ways.
>
If you want to get technical you can refill the toner on a laser
printer as well. It cost me about $25 for 3 refills. I can get about
9000 pages off of that. The total ink cost comes to around 0.0027
cents/page. At that point I would need to get a new cartridge as
other components will be starting to fail. Even if I purchase another
one ($100) and another refill kit ($25) the next 9000 pages would
still only cost about .01388 cents/page. However I'll probably just
replace the entire printer. I'm sure you can replace color toner as
well. I'd say get a really good printer and just replace the
toners/cartriges for about 5-6 years, then get a new printer. If you
rarely print color it may take a long time before it runs out. Unlike
inkjets that dry out if you do not use it.
Eric