Printer myth?

[The_YongGrand]

Originally Posted by Majormaggot

Laser jets are the best investment i think. best thing to do is buy a cheap $50 color printer and throw it out when the ink is used up(since the ink refill cost more than the printer). i had a lexmark laser jet printer where i used to work, that thing was on from 7 in the morning to 8 at night printing sheets every few minutes. i'd say the warmup time was maximum 1-2 sec before it started spitting out paper. that thing was reliable and fast. Unlike my 13 year old hp laserjet 4p, 4 pages a minute baby! So far been thru 5 color printers. on my 6th now (just bought a lexmark printer/scanner/fax combo) hopefully it lasts as long as the hp

Wow... well yeah, those inkjet printers catridges are pretty expensive, and could have overtake the price of the printer itself when you keep buying it.

I'm planning to buy a laser printer if my brother's doing heavy thesis work... He has to keep on changing catridges, when he got a huge load of his work printed.

[Adrian Wong]

Originally Posted by Majormaggot

Laser jets are the best investment i think. best thing to do is buy a cheap $50 color printer and throw it out when the ink is used up(since the ink refill cost more than the printer). i had a lexmark laser jet printer where i used to work, that thing was on from 7 in the morning to 8 at night printing sheets every few minutes. i'd say the warmup time was maximum 1-2 sec before it started spitting out paper. that thing was reliable and fast. Unlike my 13 year old hp laserjet 4p, 4 pages a minute baby! So far been thru 5 color printers. on my 6th now (just bought a lexmark printer/scanner/fax combo) hopefully it lasts as long as the hp

Ahhh.. The LaserJet 4P. Those were the days.

They have really improved laser printing these days. Even my budget-grade LaserJet 1020 prints faster and better.