Laser Printer

[Imminent]

Hello,

Please assist me. I am trying to scout for a good economy laser jet / multi function printer to replace my old deskjet.

We are buying a lot of cartridges (1-3) every month depending on the ammount of papers needed for our personal and business use.

I see that the Laser Jet printers have generic toner cartridges that can handle over 2000 pages, and costs little more than a standard deskjet cartridge.

The drawbacks aparently are the laser jet can mainly only print good quality text not images.


But now I must find out is my printer I have in mind capable of using these generic printer cartridges ?

Samsung
scx-4623-f

Any pro's in here that can sort me out?


Thanks!!

 

[ChilliGirl]

if you buy a good quality laser printer then the pics print great.....

 

[stevenv]

Never buy generic, that's my personal opinion: typically these use inferior raw materials and will eventually damage internal components which will cost you more to replace in the long run. Sure, generics have gotten cheaper but you have to weigh up the risk vs. reward in terms of cost saving. You can pick up an HP black and white laser printer for around a R1000 (sorry don't have specific price right now) which will save you tons of cash unless you need to be printing colour. In which case you could look at colour laser but with four toners this can get pricey, not to mention initial hardware cost. Black and white lasers usually come with a smaller toner but subsequent replacements give you thousands of pages of prints. In terms of text vs. graphics prints, I can answer that but it really depends what kind of printing you want to do. If you're doing text, get a laser but if you need to print high resolution graphics and photos you're probably better off looking elsewhere (and spending more money).

 

[Imminent]

apparently some laserjets have toner and drum units that are combined. can you please give me disadvantages of this? if any

 

[Milano]

I always buy HP. Reliable and cheap. Had three mono laser models in the past 15 years (two in use still)

1. HP Laserjet 5L (Dead & buried - served me well - RIP) - Good
2. HP 1020 (Runs 100% after hmm I dunno 8 years or so) - Excellent
3. Latest one = HP "Not sure"
(Latest one - Looks like this http://www.makro.co.za/p/36508/hp-mono-laser-printer) - Average to good performer - Bought at HiFiCorp for like R699 on special)

I only print text reports/etc. I only buy generic cartridges - R299 each from InkDrop. Never messed up any of my printers. Would have wasted thousands buying originals over 15 years. Generics may void warranty (if they can even tell when returned without toner), don't care, never had HP's fail on me during warranty anyway.

1 x toner @ R299 gives me about 2500 pages (text only), maybe more.

I never buy multi-function stuff, separate printer, separate scanner, separate fax machine ftw.

 

[Imminent]

I always buy HP. Reliable and cheap. Had three mono laser models in the past 15 years (two in use still)

1. HP Laserjet 5L (Dead & buried - served me well - RIP) - Good
2. HP 1020 (Runs 100% after hmm I dunno 8 years or so) - Excellent
3. Latest one = HP "Not sure"
(Latest one - Looks like this http://www.makro.co.za/p/36508/hp-mono-laser-printer) - Average to good performer - Bought at HiFiCorp for like R699 on special)

I only print text reports/etc. I only buy generic cartridges - R299 each from InkDrop. Never messed up any of my printers. Would have wasted thousands buying originals over 15 years. Generics may void warranty (if they can even tell when returned without toner), don't care, never had HP's fail on me during warranty anyway.

1 x toner @ R299 gives me about 2500 pages (text only), maybe more.

I never buy multi-function stuff, separate printer, separate scanner, separate fax machine ftw.

ok thanks for this input..

But we get a lot of faxes and have limited space.. I Will have to consider the multi function printer =\