How hard is it to find a sodding printer!

[lilelvis2000]

Until you need to buy toner ...

I scrapped my colour laser (in 2008), it cost a bloody fortune to buy toner, like £90 for each CMY and £50 for K

Yeah. and ours used a tiny amount of colour even on monochrome pages. And when the Colour runs out the printer stops printing. About £90 for each Colour!

About six months ago the Y developer unit broke. Cost? £200! plus about 1 hour for a replace it. I got a old KOnica-Minolta Bizhub for £180 and we now use that instead. When we need colour we go down the street to a mate.

I don't think I'd buy another Colour laser ever again. They take ages to warm up and calibrate before finally spitting out the first page.

[d000hg]

My business needs a laser printer because inkjet prints of pages of text (CV's, proposals, contracts etc) look tulip. To me, laser printing is the absolute standard now and I like them because the toner will sit there for ages and be absolutely fine when I have to print something.

I didn't even own a printer prior to going contracting.

Very good. I am convinced

[Platypus]

I don't think I'd buy another Colour laser ever again. They take ages to warm up and calibrate before finally spitting out the first page.

Amen!

[OwlHoot]

I don't think I'd buy another Colour laser ever again. They take ages to warm up and calibrate before finally spitting out the first page.

Never owned a printer at home, laser or ink jet, because I feel it would just encourage me to have more bits of paper needlessly floating around. (In fact I scan everything and ditch the hard-copy where possible).

But I fondly imagined, or thought I recall hearing, that expensive colour laser printers were pretty cheap to replenish - You'd pay through the nose up front, but then they were fairly cheap to run. But obviously not from what people are saying here.

Out of interest, are colour ink jet printers also expensive to replenish?

[Pondlife]

Out of interest, are colour ink jet printers also expensive to replenish?

I have a Kodak Office Hero all-in-one thingy.

Colour and Black cartridges are about a tenner each for branded but you can get generic ones online cheaper.

[anonymouse]

Dumped my ink jet printer

I don't print much, but they clogged up, so it got binned. £120 for colour laser printer, £20 for non-original replacement toner packs (3 colour & large black). Coverage is about 2000 pages, starts to print first page in 10 seconds, then keeps churning out the pages faster than ink-jet.

I had all-in-one ADF scanner, but the printer clogged, but keep it for scanning, but doesn't scan to email. Both are wifi.

[lilelvis2000]

Never owned a printer at home, laser or ink jet, because I feel it would just encourage me to have more bits of paper needlessly floating around. (In fact I scan everything and ditch the hard-copy where possible).

But I fondly imagined, or thought I recall hearing, that expensive colour laser printers were pretty cheap to replenish - You'd pay through the nose up front, but then they were fairly cheap to run. But obviously not from what people are saying here.

Out of interest, are colour ink jet printers also expensive to replenish?

Colour lasers are generally sold at a loss.

You can try to save on toners by going to refills or compatible. in my experience the refills are rubbish and caused more damage. Compatible are hit and miss, so I often just paid for new originals.

[lilelvis2000]

I don't print much, but they clogged up, so it got binned. £120 for colour laser printer, £20 for non-original replacement toner packs (3 colour & large black). Coverage is about 2000 pages, starts to print first page in 10 seconds, then keeps churning out the pages faster than ink-jet.

I had all-in-one ADF scanner, but the printer clogged, but keep it for scanning, but doesn't scan to email. Both are wifi.

The reason I haven't got a ink jet is that I print so rarely that I'm sure I'd print a few pages. Then by the next time I need a printer the ink would have dried up. With a laser this isn't a problem. Has any manufacturer solved that whole drying up issue yet?

[kevpuk]

I get along with one of each - I have decent inkjet (Pixma MG6150) for all the pretty stuff and photos....and MyCo bought a Samsung CLP415N colour laser for just under £100.
Inkjet needs 6 different cartridges, which I have a stock of, and laser will require a remortgage to replace toners. Inkjet never has any issues with drying up etc., I think these products have moved on? - and the laser may well not get replacement toners, but be replaced when the time comes. Consumer extremism in action!

[anonymouse]

£23 each for a replacement for the Samsung, I get a full set for the Dell C1760NW for less than that. I hope you get plenty of life out of them. My last IJ was bought about 18 months ago, just use the scanner on it.