Looking for a good colour laser printer.

[Mike_Amiga]

So far I've looked at HP and Samsung colour printers online. However I have no experience of how good various brands are and which ones are any good for photos, or ones that might jam badly often etc. So any advice greatly appreciated.

[Mike_Amiga]

Well, thanks for all the good advise ya'll! :madashell:

[Mike_Amiga]

by Piru on 2008/3/7 15:51:52

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Well, thanks for all the good advise ya'll!

Well huh, someone needs to relax.

 
Yeah I probably do... I was attempting to research them myself and getting my knickers in a twist. There's so little info about lasers since you can pick up inkjets for about £30 these days.

I've had various problems with inkjets though, and it's not that often I print out. Which probably causes the leaky ink problem. That and the print heads almost always need adjusting.

It's not like I'm doing anything out of the ordinary with my printers. The last printer Epson 1270 went for about 7-8 years with recurring problems the like ones mentioned above until one cartridge let so much ink escape it seems to have permanently gunked up the rollers. I have tried cleaning it various times and ways, but now I'm giving up.

Same sort of thing happened to a Brother all in one after about 2 years when a sheet had to be forceabley removed from it because the paper eject button wasn't shifting it. Then it just printed messy blob versions of everything like my Epson is doing.

Hence looking to go laser to see if my luck improves.  

Seriously though, thanks for replying those that did. I'll be printing on Mac/PC with doze or OSX. can't imagine hunting for ones that would be amiga compatible. I just want reliable occasional use printer, and if it copied also that would be no bad thing as my dad always wants this and that photocopied.

I used to scan then print out,  but my scanner seems to have long since borked for unknown reasons, it's also about 7-8 years old as I bought it the same time as my Epson printer and G4 mac.

[Mike_Amiga]

Budget wise I was thinking £250-£300 for an A4 laser printer. I have no need for A3 printouts. I could do them on the Epson but I very rarely did. I persuaded myself at the time of purchase that if I ever wanted to do A3 and couldn't I'd be kicking myself. That never rang true in the end though.

That Epson AcuLaser C9100PS  is way to big to stick on the end of my desk as well as being morbidly over my budget. Guess I should just keep looking. I'll probably end up with a crap Samsung or HP in the end. :-(

[Mike_Amiga]

Well so much for my budget I ended up spunking £400 on a Xerox Phaser 6110MFP. On the up side I got a colour toner pack half-price as part of that cost, and also delivery.

It prints, copies and scans and so far I've not had to replace a toner! Not a bad bit of kit, but it is ever so slightly massive and heavy.

One down side is photographic print outs not being so photograph-like. The colours seem kind of separated in an unnatural way, like a low res gif is the best thing I could compare it too.

Other than that though i've been through a whole ream of paper with copies and prints and it's still going! *crosses fingers that his next print won't be it's last* :-D