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Posted by Nate Lehrke (Member # 1460) on 04-23-2007, 02:16 PM:
 
Anyone have a suggestion for a printer. This would be a work printer; we print about 700-1000 pages a day and want to keep the toner costs kinda low. We print large PDF's and the spooling is driving us nuts! Currently we are using a HP Laserjet P2015dn and we seem to go thru 2-3 toners a week and a 100 page PDF seems to take 7 minutes. I think my company prefers HP but I was hoping to get any suggestions.

Thanks!

Whoops, Youre right thats not really high output. Subject changed.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 04-23-2007, 02:30 PM:
 
700-1000 pages a day is still quite low volume; you should be looking at something more than the small home type laser printers, but you certainly don't need a high volume one.

I would say HP laser printers are pretty good; we have a number of them, some now about seven years old, and still going strong. Most of our several hundred laser printers are Brother, as is my home one, but this is for reasons of cost; the HP ones are better.

The larger, faster, high volume printers tend to be cheaper per print to run, so it might be worth going for something slightly bigger than your current usage would require, it also gives you room to expand if your print volume increases in the future.
 

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Posted by Rick Raskin (Member # 1561) on 04-23-2007, 03:07 PM:
 
I have an HP LaserJet 4. Its a real workhorse, can be obtained fairly cheap online and you can also get refill cartridges inexpensively. A printer shop I deal with said to avoid the LaserJet 5.
 

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Posted by Stephen Furley (Member # 1277) on 04-23-2007, 03:57 PM:
 
Some of the later printers use 'smart' cartridges with chips in them; it's an attempt by the makers to stop use of any but 'genuine cartridges in them.
 

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Posted by Mark Gulbrandsen (Member # 72) on 04-23-2007, 04:23 PM:
 
I agree with the Laserjet 4... its a real tough printer. The only drawback is that laserjets are quite slow... especially older ones. I'm not sure that a 4 can print 1000 pages in one day.... .

Mark
 

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Posted by Steve Guttag (Member # 268) on 04-23-2007, 04:59 PM:
 
We've been using a Laserjet 4M since about 1993 (When they were new) and it keeps going strong....it prints about 4ppm though. So in a day you could get up to 5,760 pages and it would HOT!. I think it is in the 20,000 pages/month or less category of printers.
 

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Posted by Mike Blakesley (Member # 26) on 04-23-2007, 06:19 PM:
 

quote: Rick Raskin

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A printer shop I deal with said to avoid the LaserJet 5

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