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Color Laser Printer

Nice deal... yeah running out of toner will be a wallet-hit, but no more than most inkjets.

Oooh, and it is even a network printer.

My girlfriend would be non-thrilled -- I recently got a "new" monitor and she was a little sad that it wasn't one of those nice "reasonably sized" LCDs)... the last thing I need is a big printer... "but think of the eventual savings versus inkjet refills" probably wouldn't go over too well.
 
Before buying a color laser, make sure you take a careful look at the cost of replacement toner.

The color toner cartridges for some printers cost over 3-4x as much per page as those for other printers. A cheap laser printer may look like a good deal, but it's not if the toner costs 3-4x of a another, slightly more expensive laser.

When buying a color laser, I would recommend you look for one which has high-capacity toner cartridges available at a reasonable price (ex: $65 for 4000 pages, $100 for 6000 pages, etc).
 
My office has one of these. We bought it around July of last year. Let me just say the images that this thing spits out are beautiful. Toner is very expensive though. It has 4 toners, CMY and Black and they cost about $80/piece for original HP brand. So be ready to spend another $320 on toner.
 
Maichena said:
My office has one of these. We bought it around July of last year. Let me just say the images that this thing spits out are beautiful. Toner is very expensive though. It has 4 toners, CMY and Black and they cost about $80/piece for original HP brand. So be ready to spend another $320 on toner.
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Do you get 2000 pages or 6000 pages for that $80? If you only get 2000 pages, that's pretty expensive for a laser.
 
KenF said:
Do you get 2000 pages or 6000 pages for that $80? If you only get 2000 pages, that's pretty expensive for a laser.
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We've not printed enough to hit 2000 pages (We have another B&W laser printer that we use for our every day printing). However, I looked up the toner cartridges and they are showing only 2000 pages.
 
Yield:
HP Color LaserJet Q6000A Black Print Cartridge 2500 standard pages
HP Color LaserJet Q6002A Yellow Print Cartridge 2000 standard pages
HP Color LaserJet Q6003A Magenta Print Cartridge 2000 standard pages
HP Color LaserJet Q6001A Cyan Print Cartridge 2000 standard pages

My Large 4500 Series Color Laser has these for the Yield:
Black : 9000 Pages
Cyan : 6000 Pages
Magenta : 6000 Pages
Yellow : 6000 Pages
Black is $97 and the Colors are $132

The 4700 (which replaced my old 4500) does 11K and 10K pages, but the cost of the toner is waaaaay up there.
$253 for eachof the colors and $178 for the black.
 
It's a network printer so all we did was hook up the Ethernet cable to the printer and installed the drivers on our machines.
 
Ok, here's the math on it, if you somehow manage to get exactly 2000 pages from the four toner cartridges (the printer probably comes with 'starter' cartridges that will do significantly less), then at $320.00 per 2000 pages it works out to 16 cents a page for toner. I'm not sure what the numbers are on inkjet. Of course, cost per page isn't the only thing, there's also netowork connectivity, duplex operation, and higher print quality.

16 cents does seem a bit steep, though, doesn't it?
 
It's definitely not worth it if you use it to print emails, rebate forms, test prints and every day uninportant stuff. If you want to print professional pictures, letterheads, presentations, this would be worth it.

That's why we do most of our printing on the B&W HP Laserjet and project contracts on the 2605DN.

Did I mention that you can check toner status through the browser? Just enter the IP address into the address bar and you'll get a status report.
 
HoppyChris said:
Ok, here's the math on it, if you somehow manage to get exactly 2000 pages from the four toner cartridges (the printer probably comes with 'starter' cartridges that will do significantly less), then at $320.00 per 2000 pages it works out to 16 cents a page for toner. I'm not sure what the numbers are on inkjet. Of course, cost per page isn't the only thing, there's also netowork connectivity, duplex operation, and higher print quality.

16 cents does seem a bit steep, though, doesn't it?
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Yes, that definitely is. That's comparable to an inkjet. Most popular inkjets run 15-20 cents per page if you buy original manufacturer inks.

If I were buying a new color laser for use as my primary printer, I would want a price per page of <$0.10 for color and $0.02 for B&W.
 
I have a dell 3100 CN has been going strong on origional toner. (I don't do bulk printing so the origional toner is working on two years for me.) And it is awsome. Nice prints but not a photo printer.

Looks like a 4 pack of toner would run me 319. But just the black is right around 60.
 
Geez, what are you guys complaining about? For my color laser I just get toner refills from a local shop. They cost about 20 to 40 bucks for a refill (depending b&w or color) and it lasts anywhere from 2000 to 4000 prints... or just go to 123refills.
 
w1retap said:
Geez, what are you guys complaining about? For my color laser I just get toner refills from a local shop. They cost about 20 to 40 bucks for a refill (depending b&w or color) and it lasts anywhere from 2000 to 4000 prints... or just go to 123refills.
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That's not possible with toner cartridges for some newer printers.

More and more manufacturers are using chips on their cartridges which save the ink status information. Once the cartridge is used, the printer saves that information to the chip. It doesn't matter whether you [re]fill it or not because the printer won't let you print so long as that chip says it it empty. There's no way for a user to modify the chip to tell the printer it is full.

This is common on newer inkjet and laser printers from several major manufacturers.
 
KenF said:
That's not possible with toner cartridges for some newer printers.

More and more manufacturers are using chips on their cartridges which save the ink status information. Once the cartridge is used, the printer saves that information to the chip. It doesn't matter whether you [re]fill it or not because the printer won't let you print so long as that chip says it it empty. There's no way for a user to modify the chip to tell the printer it is full.

This is common on newer inkjet and laser printers from several major manufacturers.
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There is for the model listed by the OP.
http://www.123refills.net/cic/eg/tonerprinter.php?printer=HP+Color+LaserJet+2605dn
 
That's a pretty good deal but I think I would opt for the Brother HL-4070CDW Laser Printer instead. It has a wireless network interface and double the print speed in color. High capacity toner cartridges are available and cost of normal cartridges seem to be be less expensive than HP's. Plus if you need support I would bet dealing with Brother to be a lot more customer friendly than HP.

I found it on sale HERE for just slightly more than the deal of the HP. IMO the Brother is a much better color laser printer. Did I mention it's wireless? (meaning you can place it almost any where you want).
 
Gravestone Doji said:
That's a pretty good deal but I think I would opt for the Brother HL-4070CDW Laser Printer instead. It has a wireless network interface and double the print speed in color. High capacity toner cartridges are available and cost of normal cartridges seem to be be less expensive than HP's. Plus if you need support I would bet dealing with Brother to be a lot more customer friendly than HP.

I found it on sale HERE for just slightly more than the deal of the HP. IMO the Brother is a much better color laser printer. Did I mention it's wireless? (meaning you can place it almost any where you want).
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For $50 bucks more I think I would go for the Brother (nice job selling it), however, it certainly doesn't look cooler than the HP ;) anyway, i'm due for a laser color printer, thanks OP and thanks AP.
 
I ordered it from buy.com for total $222.29 after 5% off coupon + free shipping yesterday. It's suppose to be deliver today. 1 day shipping. :D

Looks like I got lucky. Price went back up to $514 today.
 
Glad to help but FYI, I'm not associated with Brother in anyway. So I'm not trying to sell it. Just offered my opinion but YMMV. I especially like the wireless network interface though (which the HP doesn't have). But the HP still is a good buy if wireless isn't important. I didn't really compare "looks" but that's not the reason I'd buy a printer anyway, i.e., it would have to be really gaudy to prevent a sale. I would suggest looking at other e-tailers to peruse reviews of others who own this unit before making a final decision. (i.e. do some research).
 
you guys are totally forgetting that ink dries up over time while the powder doesn't. :D.

say you bought a $60 color catridge and you don't print all the time, that expires in a span of a few months. 60*4-6 times a year=240-360/annually.

now think about this: you pay $360 once for black AND color toners and never buy another for 2 years :eek::eek::D. that's the power of laser printers.

besides, no1 prints anymore.
 
^--right on the money Jedi. :) That's why I switched to laser. I've only had to refill the black toner cartridge on my Magicolor 2400w once in 3 years, and I've been through reams of paper, both color and b/w prints.
 
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