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 1303Steve
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 09:34 AM |
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Not VW topic, PC printers
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I'm looking at buying a new printer for home, something that will do from word documents to photos without costing mega dollars for ink.
Has anybody found a good economical printer, I don't care if its multi function or printer only.
Steve
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 09:44 AM |
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Steve.. The best choice depends on your need for photos.. I buy a stack of mono lasers (eg Brother) from officeworks and the like.. Never more than
$150.00. They are reliable and last a long time.. We deploy them to customer sites so $$ is more important than extra function.. If you only want the
occasional photo then I would suggest a mono laser and take your photos to a print shop (eg officeworks etc) on a mem stick
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 10:34 AM |
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Hi
I will look at the Brother Laser printers. I noticed on the office works sites that drums are $208, how often do they need replacing and how long does
the toner last, I know that is like how long is a piece of string?
I have a Lexmark Z35 and the ink cost a bomb and doesn't last very long, I do need to occasionally print colour certificates.
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 03:30 PM |
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Mate.. they last at least two 10,000 copy toners before the drum folds.. then you throw them away and get a new one.. However, if you use color a lot,
not sure.. I have an old (very old) HP Color laser 5m which is hopper fed with toner bottles.. Bloody slow but good enough for low quality (not photo)
prints..
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 04:02 PM |
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i have dell colour laser, toner cost a heap but lasts and lasts and also have a epson all in one great photo prints ink is cheap would recomend
printer cost about $120 ink is about $13 a cartridge at big W
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 05:26 PM |
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posted by 1303Steve
Hi
I'm looking at buying a new printer for home, something that will do from word documents to photos without costing mega dollars for ink.
Has anybody found a good economical printer, I don't care if its multi function or printer only.
Steve
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Hi Steve,
I have a Lexmark Z4550 which is a scanner/copier/printer
they also have new ones that also send faxes...
but the bottom line is the cost of ink...
When I bought this about 12 months ago, ink was around $32 a cartridge.. [2 use] now, when i nearly ran out of ink...
I had bought some ink.. but the cartridges tell the printer when it should be dry... so extra ink doesn't work... lol
Now the cartridges are around $50+ each...
but I was lucky to find two on ebay...lol..
Photos...
I found a few years ago its not economical to print photos at home....
My sister in Law had a printer and used to buy photo paper... and do all Her photos... spent all Her money on photo paper and cartridges... so had a
cheap camera... lol
I print a lot of photos but have found its much cheaper to print them at BIG W or Harvey Norman...
even in 6 x 8 etc..
the old Lexmark 2030 printer I had.. I could refill the ink cartridges over and over...
Canon cartridges are individual color cartridges and inexpensive
compared to others... if you can refill them its the way to go,,
Many people swear by Laser printers...
but color ones are expensive and the cartridges are Mega bucks..
the only way to save money on printing is IF You can refill the cartridges...
cheers
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 06:36 PM |
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I have been selling photocopiers for over 20 years and it has been my experience that ink jet printers will cost you about 12c per page for a typical
black page. A colour page will be between $1 and $2 on average. The same done from a colour laser would be 4c - 7c for black and 30c - 80c for
colour. The inkjet machine is a lot cheaper to buy than a laser but if you don't use it a lot, the ink can dry in the nozzles and even if you do use
them lots, they waste a lot of ink cleaning their nozzles. It will be a lot cheaper if you can refill the ink cartridges but you need to make sure
you have 4 separate colour tanks, not the combined tanks with cyan/magenta/yellow in one and then black in a separate one.
In general, it is better to go to a copy shop or officeworks etc and print it out there. Having said that though, some inkjets are capable of the
most stunning colour photo prints but you have to use the special paper that will cost you over a dollar per sheet.
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 08:27 PM |
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I'm a tight arse so I only let my family print out when it was absolutely necessary. So I have stuffed a HP and epson printer with clogged nozzles.
So now my employer prints anyhting I have to print. Not always convenient when the kid needs something for the next day of school, but hey, it might
teach her to plan better.
Pretty sure all the cheap printers make their money back by expensive cartrdiges so I've never bought one of those. Which is why my 2 stuffed
moderately expensive printers are even more dissappointing. Do laser printers have problems when you dont use them enough?
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| posted on October 31st, 2009 at 10:08 PM |
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posted by amazeer
Pretty sure all the cheap printers make their money back by expensive cartrdiges so I've never bought one of those. Which is why my 2 stuffed
moderately expensive printers are even more dissappointing. Do laser printers have problems when you dont use them enough?
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That is exactly how they make their money and lasers are generally OK for that sort of thing. Toner does go off but it takes a year or more and drums
can get marks on them if you leave the machine on all the time but that is not common either.
Yogie
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| posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 PM |
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Hi
OK I'm convinced not to try and print photos at home, I still need to do the odd colour print job, so I'm thinking of buying a Samsung CLP-315
colour laser printer. Any thoughts anyone?
Steve
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| posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:23 PM |
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Running a HP color laser.. my suggestion is go OEM toner and inks only, what ever you buy.. after market will just turn shit... we keep a directory
on the desktop and drop photos in there we want to print, then when a 10c per photo special comes up at the local harvey norman we had down with
plenty of pics to print....
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| posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 PM |
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ps, was that you handing out sausage at the boris day???
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| posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:33 PM |
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Hi
I was doing the cooking and serving some of the time, Camo and Big Rudi were as well. I had a Garret hat on and a black AVD shirt.
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| posted on November 2nd, 2009 at 11:56 PM |
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all good, thats for the roll, went down very well!....
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| posted on November 3rd, 2009 at 05:43 PM |
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quote...Running a HP color laser
yes hp have always made very good printers
the cheaper the printer the $$$ the cartridge
lexmark are cheap as chip 38 bux but they make the money back and they not a great printer
a friend got a nice samsung laser cheap
but you carn't beat the old BJ 210 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
BUY A REAL BUG A PRE S BUG...
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| posted on November 3rd, 2009 at 06:49 PM |
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Hi
Thanks for everyone's input, I bought the Samsung CLP-315, I've only done a test print so far, very impressed. It looks as good if not better than
junk mail.
Steve
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| posted on November 3rd, 2009 at 08:47 PM |
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Hi
Good score, I hope nobody from Samsung visits here.
Steve
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