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Say you have a kid in elementary school. Say you need to print something for a school project or even a home craft she's doing urgently (because if course kids
by sfifs 6y ago
Say you have a kid in elementary school. Say you need to print something for a school project or even a home craft she's doing urgently (because if course kids don't plan long term - else they wouldn't be kids). BW prints look ugly. Color lasers are crazy expensive. Inkjets suck but the come with reasonably priced nice colour and photo paper printing options with a scanner built in. The inks are expensive but you're not printing much anyway. It's a hell of a lot more convenient to just fire a print from the printer at home than check if the nearest print shop is open and mount an expedition
(Source: Switched from laser to inkjet)
- codegrappler 6y agoI picked up a Canon color laser for $180 last Black Friday. They’re way cheaper than they used to be.
- sfifs 6y agoGood to know! Will consider for my next replacement
- mypalmike 6y agoColor lasers are not crazy expensive anymore. I bought a Xerox color laser about 8 years ago for under $300. It's one of the best hardware purchases in terms of value for money I've ever made.
- roel_v 6y agoDon't buy modern Xeroxes though! I have a Versalink with huge useless OS that takes forever to boot and errors that require multiple reboot to 'fix'. Guy on the phone said it was because of drivers on client machines (what sort of crap printer crashes when there is a wrong driver installed?) but evrn with his updated version it hasn't fully gone away. I've had Xerox for 20 years but this will be the last one.
- mypalmike 6y agoThat's unfortunate to hear. Thanks for the info.
- dragonwriter 6y ago> Color lasers are crazy expensive. Not really. Honestly, I find the space taken by the duplexing color laser all-in-one I have from Brother a bigger deal than the up-front price was, but it's fast, excellent quality, and total cost of printing is much lower than a cheap ink-jet.
- BeetleB 6y agoColor laser printers are not expensive, but their toner is not that cheap. I think it was estimated to be about 15 cents per color page. If you know better, do let me know - that's what's keeping me away from them.
- paulmd 6y agoI think the goal for consumers here is to look for a printer with a separate black cartridge and print most of your output in B+W mode and not full color. it looks like brother's do? I'm looking at HL-L3210CW ($199).
- tinus_hn 6y agoMost inkjets are more expensive than 15 cents a page even if you don’t count the loss from dried cartridges, priming and cleaning cycles etc.
- dragonwriter 6y agoToner alone looks to is about $0.10/color page by rated capacity for first party toner, for compatible third-party cartridges, a bit less. If the printer uses four-color toner so it has pure black, your cost for B&W pages will be significantly less.
- SamBam 6y ago> Say you need to print something for a school project. BW prints look ugly. I admit my kid is only in second grade so far, but I disagree with you that color is mandatory. We've been very happy with the B&W laser.
- abiogenesis 6y agoThey are not that expensive anymore. You can buy a Brother HL-L3210CW for $199, or you can get a second hand printer (I paid $5 for a Fuji Xerox CM205fw).