Any idea where to go for good printer reviews?

[Retne]

I've been google browsing for a good review site that at least had a good printer review section and seem to be drawing up blanks. I'd prefer to be able to see pictures of printed images/documents and not just someone explaining it in text. I came on here in the hope that perhaps there was a printer section, but alas there isn't one.

So I ask the masses, anyone have a good website they can reference me to? Thanks to anyone who takes time out of their day to point me in the right direction.

 

[Zepher]

Don't know of any sites, but what kind of printer are you looking for and what type of printing are you planning on doing?

 

[Retne]

Was looking for a color laser printer that had good image quality. I don't really need the printer to spit the stuff out super fast. I wanted a laser printer for it's ability to print on a lot of non standard surfaces(a lot of the stuff I want to print on an ink jet will just smear and never dry properly).

Also I have a budget of around $250 give or take a little.

 

[Zepher]

I currently own 2 color lasers, an HP 4500 and a Dell 3000.
The Dell is much faster than the HP since my HP was bought new in 1999 while the Dell was bought in 2006 or 2007. The HP has much better color reproduction and can print on glossy laser paper while the Dell 3000 can't, the toner won't fuse to the glossy paper.

I would look at HP, but I don't know if they currently have one in the $250 range, might be a closer to $300.

We had to replace the drum in the Dell last week, cost $169 + tax and I was debating buying a new dell that was on sale for $179 but since we use the lasers to print 8x10 pictures I didn't want to risk buying a sub par printer since there wasn't one locally I could look at.

this is the dell that was on sale for $179 last week,
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=1320cNW&s=dhs

and another cheaper one,
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=224-3788


and here is an all in one dell for $239,
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=bsd&cs=04&sku=224-4891

and here is an HP for $300, doesn't have a network interface,
http://www.shopping.hp.com/product/printer/LaserJet/1/storefronts/CC376A%23ABA