Colour Printer, Lazer probably, which one?

[richie]

Hi Guys,

My Epson DX5050 is a piece of shite. Please recommend me a reasonably priced lazer colour printer that works well.

I also use the inbuilt scanner from the Epson, also shite.... Any recommendations. Its for my wife who is making pop up books and needs to scan and reprint characters from a famous "bande dessinne"

Needs to be reasonably priced and good on Cartridges/Toner
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[Slowdown]

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[snoopy]

Get an older Epson C900 or C1100 on eBay. The cartridges cost nothing and last for years (literally). The printer is very robust and keeps on going, nothing ever goes wrong with it - I've had it for 3/4 years now and it's still spot on. I shall never sell it.

+ it's not an ink jet
+ quality is excellent
+ speed is excellent
+ it's usb
+ you can get a network card
+ it takes 128Mb sd memory off-loading big print jobs to the printer.

 

[richie]

Get an older Epson C900 or C1100 on eBay. The cartridges cost nothing and last for years (literally). The printer is very robust and keeps on going, nothing ever goes wrong with it - I've had it for 3/4 years now and it's still spot on. I shall never sell it.

+ it's not an ink jet
+ quality is excellent
+ speed is excellent
+ it's usb
+ you can get a network card
+ it takes 128Mb sd memory off-loading big print jobs to the printer.

How much should I be paying for one?

How about HP Colour Laserjet 2605 (Judge) still a good un

 

[snoopy]

The older Epsons are still the best imho. They came along just before they started chipping the cartridges and crippling the cheaper machines.

No more than £70-100 for a C900 (the C900 is the C1100 without the display and just as good). For £100 I'd expect nearly full cartridges and a photo conducting unit with a long life left. Ask them to screenshot the Epson readout from the printout drivers.

You can see how cheap the parts etc are on eBay

http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40&_trksid=m37&satitle=c900+epson

 

[snoopy]

This looks perfect... the spec says it has the full 144Mb ram installed as well

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Epson-Aculase...goryZ178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[SOAA]

This looks perfect... the spec says it has the full 144Mb ram installed as well

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Epson-Aculase...goryZ178QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I see nowhere on there that states it has the 144MB installed

 

[sparkplug]

I see nowhere on there that states it has the 144MB installed

More to the point:

RAM Capacity 144 MB - SDRAM (16mb installed)

 

[snoopy]

He has changed it after I request clarification.

 

[wessie]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/167917/xerox-phaser-6110vn-colour-laser-pr/

"Xerox Phaser 6110vn Colour Laser Printer + Free Toner Bundle @Insight £88.10 Delivered"

A disposable colour printer, for my useage anyway. The free toner is just the black module.

 

[richie]

http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/167917/xerox-phaser-6110vn-colour-laser-pr/

"Xerox Phaser 6110vn Colour Laser Printer + Free Toner Bundle @Insight £88.10 Delivered"

A disposable colour printer, for my useage anyway. The free toner is just the black module.

Sounds too cheap to be any good

 

[shugie]

Costco were selling HP colour lasers for £180 last time I was there, cheaper for me to buy then getting new drum and toner for the current HP2500, which has been a good printer for the last 3 years.