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Cost Effective Colour Laser Printer
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Venomous
Honorary Master
the number of pages a toner can print is normally calculated at 5% coverage per page by the manufacturers.
So all you wish to do is just standard printing? No scanning?
How many people will be using it? (IE does it need networking?)
So all you wish to do is just standard printing? No scanning?
How many people will be using it? (IE does it need networking?)
Bmax17
Well-Known Member
Hi Greggpb,
If you would like assistance drop me a pm with your details and I can have someone in my C.T branch give you a call.
Regards
If you would like assistance drop me a pm with your details and I can have someone in my C.T branch give you a call.
Regards
+1
In terms of printer make, try avoid Samsung where possible. I have had the world of worst experiences with their laser printers.
Peder
Hobbit
sorry to go OT but what makes you say that? When i was looking for a multifunction way back when i quite liked them, but i have no idea what the quality is like now.
For one,, I know the samsung cartridges have a page counter in them, so there is no way of printing more pages than the claimed 5% yield, even if you print blank pages. Based on that alone, I would not buy a Samsung out of principle.
LazyLion
King of de Jungle
Never had any problems with Samsung Printers. They work like a dream. Their cartridges are reasonably priced and last long enough.
No better, no worse than HP printers.
No better, no worse than HP printers.
Thanks this is what we have been doing.. but it is causing some confusion as we have to have different versions of docs for digital and hardcopy.
we are trying to simplify thing to have one version of all doc's which can be printed on any printer.
I sold a multifunction to a customer and I must have had it repaired, quite literally, 20 to 25 times within the first 3-4 months of the client owning it. I was very embarrassed about this and could not get a replacement.
Eventually Samtek replaced the unit for us and we sold it back to them. It may have just been a bad apple, but I would advise that if you do purchase a Samsung laser printer, make absolutely certain that you have a 2/3 year warranty with it. There are of course exceptions, as Garyvdh has just mentioned.
killadoob
Honorary Master
Their colour laser jets are nothing short of horrific, 3 times i had to take mine in and it broke within 2 months. Eventually i decided it was not worth it any more and bought hp. I am sure people ave had their horror stories with hp as well so in my case samsung was terrible.
Their mono ones are awesome though.
Sadly there are no colour lasers with cheap ink, depending on your usage you should look at perhaps taking out a contract with Nashua and so on as those can do colour for 8c but then it's a contract and all the nonsense that comes with that.
I have a hp all in one laser and it is nothing short of incredible. It can scan 30 pages in about 3 minutes, print quality is awesome but toner is damn expensive as with all colour laser regardless of who makes them.
Cost me 3.2k as opposed to about 2k for just the colour printer. I figured 1.2k more was decent for scan, fax, copy, printer.
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NomNom
Executive Member
Just thought you might find this interesting: https://www.nivo.co.za/#buy~samsung.clx.3185.3.in.1.color.laser.multifunctional.printer~p21276
killadoob
Honorary Master
Great post, absolute shyte and if it breaks you can expect it to stay broken. Fking useless printers and useless technical support when something goes wrong which it always does.
The best is my third samsung printer not sucking the paper straight and sucking 3-4 pages. After that i vowed to never buy a samsung col printer ever again.
Lexmark as well, buy HP. Quality with good back up support.