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| Seasian:
Sorry, I dont really know if this belongs here, but what would you guys recomend for a good printer. Not looking for anything too fancy, just a decent one that doesnt run through ink too incredibly fast or have high priced refils. Thanks for any help. |
| Doom:
In most cases it'd be a lot better if you have a Staples, Office Max, or Kinkos to have them print for you. However, since the covers are copyrighted, there is a chance that they will cover their legal asses and won't let you print them. |
| The Warlock:
Every inkjet printer runs through ink too fast and has refills that cost way too much. It's the business model. You have a few options. 1) Suck it up. Deal with the fact that every time you buy new ink it costs almost as much as buying a whole new goddamn printer. 2) Refill your ink cartridges yourself. Staples in particular sells these nice refill kits that basically just come with three bottles of ink and a syringe. It's easy as hell with some carts. Don't buy refill kits from Wal*Mart, they only sell these shitty things with squeeze bottles that spray ink all over your hands and table and everything. Note that print quality will steadily decline as your print head wears out. Still, can't beat the price, and it's always nice spending like 90 seconds injecting ink into a cartridge and realizing you just saved thirty bucks. 3) Bite the bullet and buy a laser printer. Newegg sells a decent color laser printer for like three hundred dollars. Toner drums may look expensive, but a $70 toner drum will last like two years, as opposed to a $15 ink cartridge that lasts a week. Do the math. Also, your print quality will be phenomenally better. You may have noticed by now that inkjets warp the paper if you're printing anything more than like 15% ink saturation and not using special super-expensive photo paper. Lasers don't do anything like that. But it's one hell of a startup cost. |
| TheValeman:
I purchased a Canon LBP5000 color laser and I'm really happy with it. Laser's will never reach the printout quality level of a good photo[read costly] inkjet but for whacking out great numbers of covers they cant be beat for cost per page. I think I've printed close to 400 covers now and the toner levels haven't moved. It also helped that I got a free second black toner cart with it. At this rate it'll outlast me ..... |
| Falconhood:
is there a Consumer Reports type site for this? i've googled Printer "Cost per print" cheapest and have searched all over C-Net and ...i just can't find a site that gives a comparison across all printers of price per page that is PICTURE quality. You said that a Laser last a year or so...but how many pictures is that? A year's worth of photos for my dad is only 7-10 prints...for me, 1000 --- Quote from: TheValeman on August 19, 2007, 09:06:50 PM ---I purchased a Canon LBP5000 color laser and I'm really happy with it. Laser's will never reach the printout quality level of a good photo[read costly] inkjet but for whacking out great numbers of covers they cant be beat for cost per page. I think I've printed close to 400 covers now and the toner levels haven't moved. It also helped that I got a free second black toner cart with it. At this rate it'll outlast me ..... --- End quote --- :o really?! i'll have to get one this summer when i get my bonus, since my budget won't allow. |
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