Need a new printer

[Mace]

I have an old epson 760 and god damnit it pisses me off sometimes. Tried to print some business cards and the business cards kept getting stuck, so i wasted a bunch of ink and cards. It also got ink everywhere, so I had to clean it with a paper towel

. This printer also prints soooo slow. I was printing 12 pages front and back and I swear it took 40 minutes. I just bought some ink a couple of weeks ago and I think it's getting low. Curse this printer !

Does anyone know of a good inkjet printer? I want something that's lightning fast (or a hell of a lot faster than this printer), is compatible with of the papers on the market, and has good ink management.

Thanks!

 

[TechLarry]

Canon. Period (IMHO).

Reliable. Haven't had clogs (unlike EVERY one of my Epsons), and the ink cartridges are separate and inexpensive.

I have an i950 and a Pixma 8500. Those are higher-end models, but I think the ip4000 and above are pretty good too.

Just stay away from the really cheap one's with multi-color cartridges.

-Larry

 

[HardD99]

if u want lightning fast, y not go with a color laser? i got a dell 3000cn color laser and im in love with it, i will never go back to inkjet :-\

 

[Mace]

if u want lightning fast, y not go with a color laser? i got a dell 3000cn color laser and im in love with it, i will never go back to inkjet :-\

Well this printer supposedly prints at 6ppm color/7ppm black, but I think it's a lot slower. I timed it and it took 40 seconds to print one of my pages that was in landscape mode. I just want something that's a lot faster than this printer.

was looking at laser printers, but I was wondering how much faster they are than inkjets and the quality that they print. I know the printers in the thousand dollar range can do like 50ppm, I don't need anything that fast. I just want something that prints relatively fast and has good quality.

How long do your toners last? I know they are real expensive, but I'm not sure how many prints you can do till you have to replace it. I don't plan on printing a bunch of stuff, just a few documents here and there. I would like them to print faster though

Oh and does anyone know how good All-In-One printers are? fax/copy/scan/print seems kinda cool.

 

[HardD99]

ok all in ones are great for just internet printing, but nothing of quality, or atleast the ones that i have had.

toner is pretty expensive but its last ALOT longer than ink does. the quality of my laser and every inkjet i have seen can not even compare. color off my laser looks AWESOME! and it takes about 20 seconds to print a full color page, mainly because the printer has to warm up, then load the toner for each color it needs, and then it takes about 2-3 seconds to actually print the page. the main thing is the quality tho, seems like every inkjet printer i have tried printing nice pictures on it always puts little tiny lines on the paper, which is actually where it doesnt print anything because its not aligned correctly anymore, even have trying to align it. but if your printing like 50 pages of text its as fast as the paper can go through the printer, its just spits em out one after the other.

if u want the best printer for a cheap price go with the Dell 3000cn, its was rated the best color laser u can get for under $1000, and its only like $319 right now.


http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/compare.aspx/colorlaser?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd

anyways, hope that helps man... if u have any other questions let me know...