Printer question

[ve39]

Hello i was wondering what a good color printer for a dissent price is [$400] just a printer no faxes no copiers none of this crap
thx

 

[Zepher]

For $400, you have a lot of options.
Do you want to print pictures? How large? I've got an Epson 1280 that does upto 11x44. I think they lowered the price to $399 for it.

For a little more, you could get a used HP Color Laserjet 4500DN.
This is an awesome color laserprinter. Toner cartridges are expensive, about $120 each and there are 4 of them, but you get a lot of prints from it. We've printed about 3000 full color prints over the years and it went through all 4 cartirdges, not at the same time though, yellow was first, then Magenta, then black, and then cyan. This is over a 5 year period that we've owned the printer.
Using the 10/100 NIC to hook up the printer to our PII 450, it takes 45 seconds to print a full color 8x10, multple prints of the same image is even faster, 45 seconds for the initial print and 5-10 seconds for each additional.

We paid almost $2500 for this unit back in 1999 and I've seen them for $450 to 550 on ebay the other day.
Here is a pic of the 4500 we have, as well as a print from it,

 

[ve39]

Cool thx for your help man but i'm looking for the quality of the prints shell i still get this big one of not
how is this for quality? http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...&sku_id=0665000FS10036535&catid=&newdeptid=1#
hrm this one is cheap but the resolution is better or the resolution isn't the most importand thing ?http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/pr...id=10781&logon=&langid=EN&dept=1&WLBS=fsweb15

Originally posted by WS6
For $400, you have a lot of options.
Do you want to print pictures? How large? I've got an Epson 1280 that does upto 11x44. I think they lowered the price to $399 for it.

For a little more, you could get a used HP Color Laserjet 4500DN.
This is an awesome color laserprinter. Toner cartridges are expensive, about $120 each and there are 4 of them, but you get a lot of prints from it. We've printed about 3000 full color prints over the years and it went through all 4 cartirdges, not at the same time though, yellow was first, then Magenta, then black, and then cyan. This is over a 5 year period that we've owned the printer.
Using the 10/100 NIC to hook up the printer to our PII 450, it takes 45 seconds to print a full color 8x10, multple prints of the same image is even faster, 45 seconds for the initial print and 5-10 seconds for each additional.

We paid almost $2500 for this unit back in 1999 and I've seen them for $450 to 550 on ebay the other day.
Here is a pic of the 4500 we have, as well as a print from it,
http://www.transamws6.com/pics/pc/hp4500dn.jpg
http://www.transamws6.com/pics/pc/laser_print.jpg

 

[Zepher]

Either one is fine, but I am not to fond of the multi-function units.
There are so many really good inexpensive printers on the market that it is so hard to choose.
The HP you posted is similar to the Epson I have, http://www.inkjetart.com/1280/

This is the printer my friends replaced the 1280 with,
http://www.inkjetart.com/2200/
This bad boy prints supurb, but it was expensive over $600.

I think a lot of the manufactures are trying to sell printers based on resolution, even though the Epson 2200 is only 2880x1440, it prints a picture that is so close to a real photograph that is very hard to tell the difference, the prints from the 1280 were the same, hard to tell if it was an inkjet or a photo print from a photolab.
Another issue is going to be the cost of replacement ink cartridges, the ones that have individual cartridges per color would be the best way to go since you can replace one at a time vs having to replace the entire cartridge of multi colors when only one runs out.
1280 is a 2 cartridge system, one black and one color and the 2200 is a 7 cartridge system with 7 individual color/black cartridges.

 

[monkeysofthebutt]

Canon i9100 or i960. Most amazing printers at great prices. I myself own a i960 and at $200 its the beats everything in its class. I9100 is bascially the same thing, but allows you to print 13" x 19" pictures. You will not find anything better for the money.

 

[ve39]

hey man hehe that's what i got today Canon i900d and i didn't see your post before it cost me $300 canadian

Originally posted by monkeysofthebutt
Canon i9100 or i960. Most amazing printers at great prices. I myself own a i960 and at $200 its the beats everything in its class. I9100 is bascially the same thing, but allows you to print 13" x 19" pictures. You will not find anything better for the money.