HP Color Laserjet 2600N on sale--anyone use it?

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Both Staples and OfficeMax have this new $399.98 color laser printer on
sale for $339.98 with no rebate required.

Has anyone used this printer, and if so, what do you think of it?

$339.98 is only about $19 more than the cost of the four replacement
toner cartridges for this machine ($321), so it sounds like a pretty
good buy.

Online reviews have been pretty good, although most reviews say that
the cost of the replacement toner cartridges is high ($75-$82 each for
the four), especially for cartridges that are only good for 2,000 to
2,500 pages.

It seems like HP wants to make its money on the replacement toner
cartridges, so is this the reason for the sale price of this
machine--to get machines in owners' hands using up toner so all those
new owners will soon be buying high-cost, low-page-printing replacement
cartridges? Or am I being too cynical?

I suspect that if I bought it, I'd soon be using toner refill kits
rather than buying the high-cost cartridges from HP.

If you have the 2600N, what do you think of it? I suspect that quite a
few people would like to know, especially those in the market for a
laser printer for the first time.

Bill Pease

 

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On 31 Jul 2005 14:12:36 -0700, william.pease@verizon.net wrote:

>Online reviews have been pretty good, although most reviews say that
>the cost of the replacement toner cartridges is high ($75-$82 each for
>the four), especially for cartridges that are only good for 2,000 to
>2,500 pages.

Online reviews such as this one aren't totally glowing and tend to
favor other products:
http://reviews.cnet.com/HP_Color_LaserJet_2600n/4505-3159_7-31351957-2.html?tag=top

I wouldn't count on being able to refill these new color toner
cartridges, as least anytime soon. But then I haven't checked in with
the after market. However, it is a new product.

One office in the real estate building where I work has an HP 3550 and
a 3700. They spend thousands on toner cartridges since they do a lot
of color printing. The rationale they use is that it's more
convenient and much cheaper than using Kinko's for mass color
printing. They need the speed of these things - inkjets would never
work. However, if you don't need the speed as for mass mailings, I'd
recommend a nice Canon inkjet. The printed quality will be far
better, and operational cost will be much lower.

 

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william.pease@verizon.net wrote:

>Both Staples and OfficeMax have this new $399.98 color laser printer on
>sale for $339.98 with no rebate required.
>
>Has anyone used this printer, and if so, what do you think of it?
>
>$339.98 is only about $19 more than the cost of the four replacement
>toner cartridges for this machine ($321), so it sounds like a pretty
>good buy.
>
>Online reviews have been pretty good, although most reviews say that
>the cost of the replacement toner cartridges is high ($75-$82 each for
>the four), especially for cartridges that are only good for 2,000 to
>2,500 pages.
>
>

I do not have this machine but it seems that if you only get 2500 pages
out of 4 carts it is not worth the cost.

>It seems like HP wants to make its money on the replacement toner
>cartridges, so is this the reason for the sale price of this
>machine--to get machines in owners' hands using up toner so all those
>new owners will soon be buying high-cost, low-page-printing replacement
>cartridges? Or am I being too cynical?
>
>I suspect that if I bought it, I'd soon be using toner refill kits
>rather than buying the high-cost cartridges from HP.
>
>If you have the 2600N, what do you think of it? I suspect that quite a
>few people would like to know, especially those in the market for a
>laser printer for the first time.
>
>Bill Pease
>
>
>

 

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Thanks for the suggestion, Jim, but I already have a Canon i860 inkjet
printer that I will certainly keep for printing photographs for family.
It does a remarkably good job for that purpose and inexpensively too
because for a year I've been very satisfactorily using after-market
inkjet cartridges from Alotofthings.com with never a problem.

I'm in the market for a laser printer with which to print my quarterly
high school class newsletter and about 100 copies each of two family
history books with about 250 pages each. That's a lot of printing and
my i860 Canon is way too slow with high quality stuff that has a lot of
pictures, as the newsletter & books have. And every one of those pages
are big letter-size ones with lots of pictures that are really slow to
print. I've already printed 5 issues of my newsletter and the printing
of each took much too long and the inkjet cartridges needed to be
replaced much too frequently, so each issue was a slow and inconvenient
experience.

Also, I want the greater permanence of laser printing: I don't want a
reader of my books to spill a drink on my pages & see the ink run.

So, wanting speed, convenience, and permanence, my inkjet printer just
won't do for these purposes.

I agree that probably the refill toner & after-market cartridges for
this new HP2600N laser printer won't be available immediately, but I've
checked quite a number of refillers online and at least a couple of
them note on their websites that toner & after-market cartridges for
this printer are in development. I think that HP will sell a lot of
these printers so refillers will get toner out for them by the time
that I need replacement toner.

I still haven't heard from an owner of this printer with his or her
reaction, which I hope I will. An owner's reaction in the review you
listed raved about it at first, then, when it quit on him, he
understandably reneged on that opinion. I hope hr writes to tell what
happened eventually.

Thanks for taking the time to send your thoughts on the matter. I
appreciate it.

 

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In message <1122911401.711130.99430@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
william.pease@verizon.net writes
>I'm in the market for a laser printer with which to print my quarterly
>high school class newsletter and about 100 copies each of two family
>history books with about 250 pages each.

This 25,000 page run might be better (and possibly cheaper) if you take
it to a printing company. At the very least I'm sure its worth the
effort to phone a local one up and get a quote.

--
Timothy

 

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On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 12:30:23 +0100, "me@privacy.net" <me@Privacy.Net>
wrote:

>In message <1122911401.711130.99430@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>william.pease@verizon.net writes
>>I'm in the market for a laser printer with which to print my quarterly
>>high school class newsletter and about 100 copies each of two family
>>history books with about 250 pages each.
>
>This 25,000 page run might be better (and possibly cheaper) if you take
>it to a printing company. At the very least I'm sure its worth the
>effort to phone a local one up and get a quote.

Also keep in mind that the color toner carts for the 2600n are rated
at only 2000 pages each. Thats a LOT of carts.

Paul
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