> Randall, Welcome to the crowd. I tried and tried to warn people about > buying > any printer that did not take cartridges from Staples or any other > office > supply place. I wrote about this a few years ago and a couple of > people said that Dell printers were great and I resisted the "I told > you so" but.. > > That might be one reason that Dell was giving away their laser > printers to Non-Profits in MD and I cautioned them to refuse > them. Most listened and are happy, some of the others are paying the > price. No competition in the cartridge arena for them.
I've been buying refurbed Dell low-end laser printers (1710n model) for a while now, with 3-year warranties, for under $200. I used to purchase HP LJ 1000/1200 printers (which had only 1 year warranties) for the same task, but they just died after about a year or 2 of light use. The Dell toner is competitive on a cost basis with HP brand and not all 3rd party toners are created equal for HP printers. Xerox seem OK, but I stopped buying the Eco Elites after the last one fell apart, yet again. I have to eat the ~$70 cost every time one of those cartridges break. The bonus is that the Dells are networked, while the 1000/1200 series is not. Some of these replaced expensive ink-jets in certain instances. Even though they are just rebranded Lexmarks, no problems with the Dells. I have about 8 of them in use right now. ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
