Help me pick out a laser printer!

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I have the 2010 and I really like it. So far I have printed about 2.5 reems of paper and I have no complaints. I'd get it again. I don't find it loud at all. It's quieter than my Lexmark inkjet was. It will be really hard to beat for the price. I think I paid $89 (after MIR) for mine.
 
i used to have the 1020, it was a great little printer. VERY quick warmup time, it started to put out first page after only like 5 seconds. if u were willing to spend a couple hundred more tho, the Dell 3000cn blows all of those printers away, and its color for $319 on sale right now. i absolutely LOVE this printer, and its super fast. GL man
 
I would 2nd the Dell 3000cn if you can front the cash for it. Personally, I won't buy another HP product. I'm partial against them after having a job where I worked all day long fixing their screwups and poor design, but your mileage may vary of course. I like the Samsungs if you're looking to definitely stay in the price range.
 
the Samsung low end models are a pain. i've run through 3 of them already and they're undeniably cheap in their build quality and abilities. the HP ones aren't that much better but, for something that runs all day, meh...

the dell lasers are all right, but damn it if i will get locked into "brand specific" toner ever again.

dave
 
Vote for the Samsung. I've had a ML 1710 for several years now. Its always been quick and reliable.
 
Alright thanks for the replies guys!

After researching a bit, i just purchased a Dell 3000cn :D

It's on sale for $319, and i also had a $35 off a $300+ purchase. Which brought a total of $307.xx shipped including sales tax in Texas.

Thanks again!
 
I recently bought a HP Laserjet 5 on ebay for $9. Put my old 72pin SIMM FPM ram from my old Pentium 133Mhz in it and installed a Jetdirect card to have a really quite good network laser printer at home at an amazingly low cost.

Laserjet 5's may be old, but they never die. Its like that old Volvo 240 you know someone who drives.

Quality is good, it prints quite fast enough for me, and there are seemingly drivers for everything for the LaserJet 5...
 
Yeah, how about those mylar tubes they use in their instant-on fusers. What a joke...

-Larry

Baredor said:
I would 2nd the Dell 3000cn if you can front the cash for it. Personally, I won't buy another HP product. I'm partial against them after having a job where I worked all day long fixing their screwups and poor design, but your mileage may vary of course. I like the Samsungs if you're looking to definitely stay in the price range.
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Laserjet 5 for $9 is a FANTASTIC deal. Personally I have a samsung and I love it's price to performance ratio, but it is a trifle loud. Depends on your tolerance though, I don't print often enough for it to drive me crazy.
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
Laserjet 5's may be old, but they never die. Its like that old Volvo 240 you know someone who drives.
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Exactly like it. Hard to get parts for, big and boxy, fun to drive until your friend sees you, and so on.
 
Still using my HP LaserJet 4M+. I have enough toner cartridges and spare parts and shells, I'm estimating sometime in the year 2050 I'll need to actually get a new one. I can't stand new low-end printers, it seems they always jam, or die after a year or two.
 
CompuDrew said:
I have the 2010 and I really like it. So far I have printed about 2.5 reems of paper and I have no complaints. I'd get it again. I don't find it loud at all. It's quieter than my Lexmark inkjet was. It will be really hard to beat for the price. I think I paid $89 (after MIR) for mine.
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I have the ML-2010 as well, i think it makes quite a racket when running, but it's friggin fast. I got it for ~$50 AMIR. I would buy it agian. Maybe I'd get a duplexing/ networked version, but i am pretty happy for the price.
 
mikeblas said:
Exactly like it. Hard to get parts for, big and boxy, fun to drive until your friend sees you, and so on.
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Haha... I was thinking more like "it may not be pretty, but its pretty cheap, very easy to work on, gets the job done, and never dies" :p

I've seen all the common replacement parts for LJ5's on ebay for reasonably low prices. They don't seem hard to get to me...

And one advantage I love is that the LJ5 has perfect drivers fro just about any system you could mention. (great for a linux fanatic like myself).

I used to have a HP 3100 MFP, but it was only a Windows printer, and it annoyed me a lot.
 
elleana said:
Laserjet 5 for $9 is a FANTASTIC deal. Personally I have a samsung and I love it's price to performance ratio, but it is a trifle loud. Depends on your tolerance though, I don't print often enough for it to drive me crazy.
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I was very happy with the deal. I wasn't actually planning on buying a printer, I was curious what they were going for, and when I saw one with a starting bid of $9, no bids and 14 minutes to go... Well... I just had to :p

I'm actually not certain what I think of the volume level of the printer. I stuck it in the hallway outside my room and hooked it up to my wireless router so everyone in my apartment can use it.

Right now I am trying to figure out a funny message for the HP printer Display Hack

Right now I have it scrolling "Hello! Want to play a game?". I think I may have watched Wargames a few times too many as a kid. :p
 
Zara speaks the truth, if you have room, get a 5 series. Old but they last forever. :) I have the 5100tn, which is a beast too.
 
Blitzrommel said:
Zara speaks the truth, if you have room, get a 5 series. Old but they last forever. :) I have the 5100tn, which is a beast too.
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W00t. Got some old FPM SIMMs and a postscript module for the printer for $4.

So I now have a postscript capable Laserjet 5 with 54 megs of ram :) (I guess that technically makes it a Laserjet 5M)
 
Zarathustra[H] said:
W00t. Got some old FPM SIMMs and a postscript module for the printer for $4.

So I now have a postscript capable Laserjet 5 with 54 megs of ram :) (I guess that technically makes it a Laserjet 5M)
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Hehe, nice.
 
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