Need colour laserjet printer advice

[Roj]

If you're willing to part with a small fortune, I'd highly recommend one of these: Minolta Magicolor 2350. It supports postscript and has built-in networking via ftp (among other options). To print straight from PageStream I set up postscript output, print to device tcp:192.168.0.50/9100. In TurboPrint, I used the HP Color LaserJet 5 driver and set print to file with the same ip address. It's about as simple as it gets. It also allows configuration options to be set through a browser, and it works very well with IBrowse.

As far as the quality of the output, I don't think color laser gets any better right now. The printouts are absolutely top notch. Glossy printouts look as good as magazine covers. I've had mine for almost a year now and printed over 2 reams of paper with the original "low-capacity" toners. My black toner is still at 52% remaining, and the color toners are all at 74% remaining.


It's an expensive printer, but if you can afford it you can junk your inkjet and never look back.

[Roj]

Why so against ink jets? I get great color prints from the HP and Canon printers I use, and they are way cheaper to use than color lasers!

I used to believe that too. But having had a laser for almost a year, and done enough full-page color prints on my laser to run through at least ten black/color inkjet cartridges (@$50 a set), there's no way an inkjet can match a laser over just a few years time. In three years, I'd spend $1500 on ink cartridges easy. Heck, just ten full-page prints can do one color cartridge in! With the MagiColor I've printed over 2 full reams (that's 1,000 sheets) including at least 100 full-page color prints so far and look where my toner supplies are. It's not even close.