Help with doubt concerning laser printer

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DrkSlash

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Hi.

I wanted to buy a colored laser printer but im having some questions concerning toner duration. I wanted to buy a Laserjet 2600N but i dont understand something, when the color toner one buy for the printer says that it is valid for 2000 pages, is it really valid for the 2000 pages or the value is considerably lower?

Thks in advance for any response.
 
We have one of those here at work. To be honest I am not sure how long a color toner last.So i can't tell you that you will get X number of pages. My guess is that they get 2000 by assuming some type of percentage of the page that will contain color and that your type of printing will ultimately determine how many pages you will get. I will say that it is a nice printer and that the user here at my work that uses it printes color stuff out almost every day and doesn't run of ink too quickly. It isn't a waste of money if that is what you are wondering. You will get more out of the laser toner than you do a ink jet cartidge. Plus as the colors are seperate you don't through away a cartidge just because you are out of red but still have a lot of blue and yellow.

Sorry that i can't give you a definite answer to your question about the number of pages. Hopefully my answer still helps some in making your decision.
 
Ive owned black and white laser printers for a while now and if they are any indication for color ones they really last a while. At least 2000 pages, unless your printing pages that are covered in graphics
 
My usage of the printer would be to print dvd covers for anime based on wallpapers, which have plenty of colors.

I'll probably wait a while until the models of color laser become more popular and there's more information available.

Thks for the opinions.
 
Just looked at HP site and yah, they state 2000 pages assumes 5% coverage of the page by the color. So you won't be getting 2000 dvd covers. Standard inkjet tri-color says it does 260 pages at 15% but i would assume that means all 3 colors together or 5% of a single color. Which is far less than you will get with the laser. And as the colors are seperate you won't be wasting a good cartidge just becuase one color is out.

I don't see the amount of pages you get ever going up. The cost might come down some over time, but that pages per toner probably won't change. Not unless they start making larger toner cartridge, at which time the cost will go up. So you wont' be saving anything.

If the number of pages is your only concern I would go ahead and get it.
 
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