Laser printer recommendations

[GS_BOTT]

Hi, Now fed up with my nearly new Epson telling me new cartridges are either empty or not recognised (originals, and replacements) It's time has come to an end. So I thought I would start looking for a laser printer, need to be colour, would be nice if it had card inputs and wireless, looked around and found this Brother at a reasonable price

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-HL3...3RH0/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1358861851&sr=8-7

Has anyone got any recommendations? (reliable brands that won't fail in a few months) these seem more office based printers that are fairly low specced for some reason, would like an AIO/scanner, copier, wireless etc

Cheers

 

[wessie]

The little Brother & Samsung laser printers are pretty good. I had a mono Samsung laser for years which gave me the confidence to buy one of their colour ones from Amazon for the remarkable price of £65 delivered. Seems the best price for a similar one is £98.60 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-CLP...1_5?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1358885524&sr=1-5
I've been very happy with it, although my volumes are low I haven't needed to buy any consumables yet.

 

[Blackal]

I like the Brother printers, and have an HL4040 CN

I think mine is for fairly heavy home office use, but the 30 is probably sufficient for most needs.

They usually take a big capital outlay in toner cartriges initially, but perform well.

Network set up is easy

Oh! They weigh a feckin' lot

Al

 

[Fanum]

Forget the cost of the printer....it's almost irrelevant

Look at moneysupermarket.com or which.com or whatever, and as long as a printer has the required specs (which pretty much all do these days) go for the one with the lowest annual running costs per x copies PA.

You can buy a 30 quid printer that will do everything that a 130 or 330 quid printer will do, and nobody would be able to tell the difference between the outputs.....one will cost you £350 a year to re-ink, and the other won't run out of in inside 2 years

Personally I've had a couple of HP laserjets.....a full colour one and the current office one, a 1020.

You can buy a 1020 B&W HP laserjet for WELL under £100 now, but a full black toner cartridge will set you back £80 ish.

Then you look into it, and the cart that comes with a new printer only has about 1/3rd the ink of a full, new cart.

The same applies to nearly all other makes of printers.......they can't stop people re-filling their cartridges with a syringe DIY kit, or prevent China from making copies of their cartridges at 1/10th the price, so they try and keep their money up by selling printers instead.

If I was buying a printer tomorrow, the first I'd look at would be an HP office laserjet, because I've run them for several years and they are quality.

The last I'd look at would be the latest 'all singing all dancing bundled with xyz software package and gives you a blowjob as well' trendily packaged but dirt cheap printer that will be at the aisle end piled high, because that will cost you a fortune to run and will break as soon as you need to put the third ream of paper in..

Not much specific help I know, sorry, but I hope you get my gist

 

[rodders]

If you are just looking at costs of ink,regardless of type.. the cheapest are the Kodak range.

Use brother at work ,the new ones 2250 have a lot less toner than the old ones at the same cost! we get through a full toner in each printer in about 2 weeks.

 

[GS_BOTT]

I'm not looking at running costs too much, but just need a reliable printer, that doesn't need throwing away after very little use due to their useless software, that keeps telling me there's errors and empty cartridges. So far most makes already covered as good replacements, (Brother/HP/Samsung)

It's just a home printer for general low use printing, and for when my daughters need it for uni/college coursework, so not really after photo quality stuff at the moment. Space not an issue, but don't obviously don't want an 'industrial' sized machine.

 

[rodders]

If it is low use then the brother 2250N does approx 2000 pages, reliable,usb or ethernet...

 

[GS_BOTT]

Isn't that just a black 'n white printer??

 

[Blackal]

Isn't that just a black 'n white printer??

Go for the one at the beginning:

Brother HL3040CN Compact High Speed Network Colour LED Printer

Al

 

[rodders]

Isn't that just a black 'n white printer??

yes sorry,, just saying brother reliable etc.. go for the colour as prev message

 

[Paul G (BHT)]

I have just replaced my trusty Epson Aculaser 900 with a Lexmark C543dn

It is networkable and does duplex printing which is a bonus

Problem is, I have only just collected it this morning so it is still in the back of my truck, so I can't give you a 'user' review

 

[Blackal]

I have just replaced my trusty Epson Aculaser 900 with a Lexmark C543dn

It is networkable and does duplex printing which is a bonus

Problem is, I have only just collected it this morning so it is still in the back of my truck, so I can't give you a 'user' review

Now - that's handy

Al

 

[GS_BOTT]

Thanks so far, I'd just seen the Lexmark on offer this morning, possibly change of plans as the wife now informs me she needs to photocopy and scan stuff as well, so looking for an 'all in one' at the moment.

No doubt the price will double from now on. So might just get another basic cheapie printer to compliment the laser??

 

[Blackal]

I can recommend Canon Pixma range


I have the 860 which is inkjet, but has flatbed and sheetfeeder scanner, networkable, plug in cardreader.

Works great for photocopies and scans run from any computer on my network.

Photo-printing is spot-on too.

Okay - not a laser, but still individual ink cartriges.

Al

 

[franco]

Another for brother

Got a wireless HL-2170W which has proved trouble free in the 4 years we've had it. Printed thousands of pages, and a cartridge costs just over 23EUR from Amazon. I got fed up of smudgy inkjet quality and this prints as well as the 2000EUR super Ricoh printer in the office for all intents and purposes. Graphics are rubbish, but if you're after a text only printer for years of trouble free churning oot documents, this is a good deal.
Recommended

Rob

 

[wessie]

Thanks so far, I'd just seen the Lexmark on offer this morning, possibly change of plans as the wife now informs me she needs to photocopy and scan stuff as well, so looking for an 'all in one' at the moment.

No doubt the price will double from now on. So might just get another basic cheapie printer to compliment the laser??

If you do a lot of text printing then a separate mono-laser makes sense as this keeps the running costs down. When I was printing coursework & dissertations I did most of the printing on the Samsung mono-laser printer rather than doing the lot on the colour printer. For the one or two pages needing colour I would print them separately and insert them manually.

 

[chipsonfriday]

I had a similar issue with ink cartridges drying out between use. Effectively giving me well less than a hundred pages per cartridge replacement.

So I went the colour laser route. I also needed to have print, copy, and scan.

After some research I picked the HP 179NW laser jet Pro. Must say that so far I am impressed. Printer as supplied indicates over 400 pages of colour print available on OEM toner. Scanning documents is so easy. And the quality is really quite good.

The cost of replacement toner was a concern with prices varying from £35 per colour (3 + black) to £50 each. But then the page output per cartridge is over 1000. I was paying over £30 for a set of ink cartridges which lasted for 100 pages (if I was lucky) which makes the laser consumables reasonable.

All in all I'm really glad I went the colour laser route. Toner doesn't dry out.

Added bonus - I can print directly from my iPhone and iPad over wireless.


Chips

 

[Rob Farmer]

Another thumbs up for the Brother 2250DN printers. Very cheap and the Duplex printing saves a lot of paper. 2600 page toner cartridges on ebay is £13 including postage. Networks as well with an inbuilt network port.

Ours was £80 from Staples.

 

[GS_BOTT]

Well just an update for those that gave advise, bought a brand new Brother 3040 cheap, off of fleabay, it works perfectly and I've done loads of printing tonight, I think we'll be very happy together, at last also working from the wife's lappy too.

thanks for the advise all

 

[rodders]

I can recommend Canon Pixma range


I have the 860 which is inkjet, but has flatbed and sheetfeeder scanner, networkable, plug in cardreader.

Works great for photocopies and scans run from any computer on my network.

Photo-printing is spot-on too.

Okay - not a laser, but still individual ink cartriges.

Al

I would have agreed until recently..
I have just scrapped one after hardly any use but out of wwty.Had not even used up original ink cartridges.. came up with an error message - emailed cannon who said it will have to go back for repair..did a search and seems to be a common problem...cost almost full cost of printer to send/rtn carriage plus repair..