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Tony wrote:
>Brian
>Firstly colour lasers are droppping in price and in generally have extremely
>high quality. They print faster than inkjets.
>Cost of ownership is in nearly all cases lower for lasers than inkjets both
>monochrome and colour, the issue is how much prinitng you will be doing because
>of the relatively high initial cost of a colour laser, if you are not going to
>print all that much then obviously an inkjet may be better. So you need to do
>your sums. Any good dealer
>
You do not need a dealer when you have Google and Ask Jeeves
>should give you costs of running either type of
>printer. Disadvantages of lasers is high initial cost, high cost of consumables
>even though they will print dramatically more copies than an inkjet cartridge,
>average cost of a full set of toners for a colour laser (4 in all) is about
>$700 to $1000 NZ dollars (just checked on the net) depending on the model you
>buy but you should get up to 5,000 pages for that. Drums ($750 for 15-17,000
>pages), fusers and transfer belts ($450 for 15-20,000 pages). Lasers are
>generally more reliable, but warm up relatively slowly (some models, check if
>this is important to you), they are also built to last for many years. So all
>together there will be some big purchases through the life of the printer but
>overall cost of ownership is lower than inkjets. Photo quality is something
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>I am not competent
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You are right!
🙂
> to advise on but I will say I am constantly impressed at how
>well they print photos, most will print on card (up to 230 gsm or better), they
>cannot print on inkjet photo paper, the coating will probably melt on the fuser
>and result in a need to replace the fuser. However high quality laser card is
>available at a reasonable price. I suggest you look at a flat bed type of
>printer rather than a carousel type because they warm up faster, can print
>banners and are much less likely to have paper jams if you want to print
>labels. Label and business card printing is fraught with problems on all
>non-flatbed printers whether laser or inkjet. Most lasers will print first
>class business cards. I have found OKI and HP colour lasers to have high
>reliability and quality (I have heard that Epson make good colour lasers but I
>have no personal experience), there are some makes that I would not recommend.
>Talk to someone else about photo quality comparisons,
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They do not have the striking vibrance of an inkjet; especially a dye
based inkjet
>that is a highly
>specialised area and your expectations have a lot to do with it. I believe that
>print permanence is excellent on lasers.
>Tony
>
>Brian <bclark@es.co.nz> wrote:
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>>I'd be interested in knowing if colour laser printers are dropping
>>rapidly in price.
>>Are they cheaper t run compared to ink jet printers?
>>Are there any disadvantages compared to inkjet printers?
>>Are colour laser printers very good at printing photos?
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>>I have been using a black and white laser printer for a few years and
>>it seems cheap to run compared to using my ink jet printer for
>>printing text, but this could be different for a colour laser rinter
>>if the coloured toner is expensive.
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>>Regards Brian
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