Your Primary Printer, What Manufacturer?

[abulayth]

hi to all

I am using printers HPlaserjet 1100 @ Inkjet hp 945

[HayTay]

Originally Posted by abulayth hi to all

Welcome to CNCzone, Abulayth! Thanks for your input on my printer poll.

Take a look around, lots of great information is to be had on all kinds of subjects, no matter what your interest.

I hope things are well for you and your family in your part of the world.

[diarmaid]

1) Those Xerox solid stick printers are exxxxpensiveeeeeee. So are the replacement sticks! Are they really worth it?

2) Im shopping for a new laptop dell direct at the moment. It costs about €180 extra for 2GB RAM instead of 1GB, but to go from 1GB to 4GB costs a whopping €1800 extra, WHY IS THIS?

Thanks.

[camcam]

Xerox Phasers use wax to print, and they cost an arm and a leg, as do the sticks. Lord help you if one of the thermal heads go bad, $$$$$$$$.

Hp has had the US market for a long time. Their game is simple, sell printers cheap and then rob everyone on the supplies. It can often be cheaper to buy a new HP than get replacement cartridges. Businesses do not see what they spend in cartridges because its usually ordered by the secretary and never questioned.

Your concern should be cost per copy. What is my cost per page when I take into account what I am paying for that ink cartridge divided by how many sheets of paper I get out. When it comes to laser there is even more, toner, developer units, drums, fuser units. They aint cheap. Look at the rated yields, 20K to 30K is pretty bad. There are printers out there that go 300K. Color is even going to cost more in the laser section because you have 4 of each (except a fuser).

Things are changing. Zerox is close to a fairy tale, HP is loosing more and more market share every day because of competion. If you plan on printing a lot, do your homework when shopping for a new one.

OK enough ranting and raving.

Jerry

[eSilviu]

Laser Samsung
cheep and easy to mentain