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Need new color laser printer for work

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petesamprs

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Trying to find a new color laser printer for our group of 30 ppl at work.

Requirements (in order):
1) Speed of warmup and color printing
2) Color printing quality
3) Ability to print to slightly larger stock paper (not business card thick, but about twice the thickness of regular paper)

Price is not really an issue - can spend a few thousand (investment banks have a lot of $$ to throw around)

Anyone have any suggestions - have done some research and identified a few choices but want to see what you guys have to offer.

thanks...
 
Xerox Phaser 8400

I know it's not exactly a laser printer, but I highly recommend it! Besides being fast, the quality is awesome! I've printed pictures on stock paper, and they look great! It's also super fast @ 24ppm fast color and the first page out in 6 seconds.

The one downside to it is it first takes about 10 minutes to warm up if you completely shut it down, otherwise, it kicks my HP Color Laser Jet 2500 to the moon!
 
The solid ink printers have great output (I also remember when you could pay $20k for the Tektronics). What kind of duty cycle are you looking for with 30 users? How many input trays? Need a hd for spooling?
 
Even though we have 30 people, we don't use it that often. We have a full fledged Pitney Bowes printing service downstairs (with $200k color copiers), but they take a while to get jobs done. And on the desk we usually just print in black and white. We just prefer to have a color printer around when meetings come up quickly and we don't have time to send something downstairs to print. I'd say if we got a good color printer to replace the POS we have now, we'd use it for no more than 5k prints a month.

Don't need any extra input trays aside from the main one since it won't be used excessively.

Don't know what spooling means.


Also, I don't really mind what type of printer it is (laser vs solid ink), but I don't want to sacrifice a little quality to save $$$. For example, even if solid ink quality is just a little worse that laser but costs a few thousand less, I'd still want the laser. If, however, solid ink allows the job to be done significantly faster at the expense of a little quality, then it's definitely worth considering. 1st speed, close 2nd quality, distant 3rd price.
 
I cant be absolutely sure, but I think you'll get more pages per dollar with solid ink, than with a laser. With laser printers, you quite often have to buy entire toner cartridge, which has the developer and drum attached to it; This often leaves you paying upwards of $300. With solid ink, you're only buying, well, the ink. There also is little to throw away, and you get truer, more consistant colors.

I'd eventually like to get the printer for my home pc...
 
Originally posted by: petesamprs
is solid ink better than laser? why is it so much cheaper?
Click to expand...

we had some phasers at work, 2 out of 3 of them on our floor were always down for repairs... make sure you factor service contract into cost for your considerations. I think the service comes for free if you get one of those "pay only for supplies" deals (edit: link)

sidenote: saw new samsung (dink) color laser at compussr today, look very nice, 21ppm bw, 5ppm color, 0.7c/p bw, 12c/p for all three colors, duplex, eth, pretty cheap

sidenote2: at work we have warnings: you cannot feed solid ink printed pages into a copier, the ink will run, is this still true for the current models?
 
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