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Sunday, June 21, 2009

What to do in order to buy a good laser printer? -

I would not like it to cause me any problem in the future.

To be completely honest with you I have had the best luck overall with hp laser printers. Depending on what you are looking for you can get either a black and white printer for a couple of hundred or a color laser for a bit more. That s just my two cents.

With laser printers, regardless of the brand name (for all will produce good models, and all will produce duds) the more you spend on a unit that has the features you want, the better it will be. Seriously. If you are purposely trying to find the most inexpensive color laser printer on the market, and justify it working for you... your expectations would be skewed. This would be a disposable printer, considering it was at the bottom of all the laser printer lines. So first, you look at a few different ones, and decide what features are important. Speed? Detail (print resolution)? Cost of toner cartridges (you plan on printing a lot)? ability to handle odd paper or odd size paper? Ability to handle thick card stock or index stock? Size of feeder tray (to print 500 pages, rather than refilling the drawer 5 times for the same job)? You must answer these questions before you pick your unit. THEN, you start to hone your choices down. Am I saying that one laser printer is essentially the same as another? Almost. I m saying that as you shop, you will see the cheap range, the mid range, and the expensive range. You will see certain features only available in more expensive units... but all laser printers are designed to outlast ink jet printers, under a heavier load. The more you spend on the laser printer, the more this will hold true. The more expensive HP black and white laser printers from 10 years ago are still printing now. Why? They were mid range durable units. So, shop. Decide what you like, then compare the ones that have what you want. This is an investment. This is not supposed to be something you plan on using once a month.

Purchasing a laser printer is like buying a vehicle.First you need to determine what it s going to be used for and what is your budget.Second, generally you get what you pay for. Do you need to print 100 prints per month or 100,000? , do you need monochrome or color?, How big(paper size) are you printing?, Is it being used for one person or a workgroup?. With the limited details in your question, that s th only things I could answer.

Several years ago I bought 2 Brother HL-2040 laser printers for about $50 each. The toner ran out after about 3,000 pages. I bought refills on ebay for $6 and also a $3 part called a reset gear which is needed to refill the toner. The printers are still working today and I use them regularly. So lasers do not have to be expensive to be good.

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