As far as the inkjet vs laser cost wise, in my house we switched to color laser 5 years ago. My wife is approaching her doctorate, and I spend quite a bit of time printing information for meetings of various organizations I work with/am on the board of. In addition to that, having two children in school who do some of their written home work as typed papers means we go through a LOT of paper. We've found it much less expensive to own a color laser printer in the long run, and recently replaced an older Brother printer with an Oki printer because costs are pretty close on consumables, but the Oki has a duplex option that should significantly reduce paper usage without causing headaches.
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Curt Lundgren <[email protected]> wrote: > In general, inkjet printers have a lower purchase price and a higher > per-page cost. I once read that an Olympic size swimming pool filled with > inkjet ink would cost a billion dollars (and it would be a real mess to > clean up!) No racket there, I'm certain. Color laser printers have a > higher entry price and in general a lower cost per page. > > If you're into high quality color prints, nothing touches inkjet quality, > though a $40,000 Canon imagePRESS doesn't exactly suck. At Watkins we have > several HP color laser printers, and if you do an occasional color > calibration they produce "similar" results to the expensive Canon. Of > course the Canon uses a photometer for calibration, and has a Fiery RIP to > do the fine color tweaks. > > There are very good quality aftermarket toner cartridges available. We're > quite happy with MSE brand cartridges from United Imaging. > > Curt > > > On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Side question. Is a color laser like the Phaser cheaper to own and operate >> than either a traditional color inkjet and/or these newer fangled color >> "pigment" printers (like Epson or Kodak)? I need a decent color printer >> of some sort, but since the ink ran out this last time around on my CRAP >> HP OJ8500, I decided NO MORE HP color cartridges for me! :) >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Drew from Zhrodague >> Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:54 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [nlug] Veeeeddddy Intahresting... >> >> Sometimes it is hard to find the PPD for a printer. With some >> older HP models (My beloved HP8K), you have to extract the WIndows driver >> and take the PPD out. >> >> That's a gorgeous printer you have there! >> >> >> On 6/22/12 9:51 AM, Howard White wrote: >> > It was time to replace our trusty HP LaserJet 4P (going on 20 years >> > old). Still works, probably needs cleaning... We've gotten tired of >> > the other color inkjet printer that the cartridges ~!@#$% up so quickly. >> > Got a new Xerox Phaser 6280. >> > >> > The point of this email is to compare the printer installations >> > between Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. I did the Lucid >> > machine first and it got all confused (or I got impatient and just >> > blasted it). Set the printer up as a Generic Level 1 PostScript and >> > it works fine. Pulled up the Hardy system and it found the Xerox >> > without any complaint: push, pull, click, wham, bam, thank you ma'am. >> > >> > Really. >> > >> > I've been meaning to set up a Precise 12.04 system and just haven't >> > gotten around to it at home. I am running Precise at the office with >> > some issues. We'll see how well Precise likes finding the Xerox >> printer... >> > >> > Howard >> > >> >> >> -- >> >> Drew from Zhrodague >> Tiki Witchdoctor >> [email protected] >> "Ooga-booga!" >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To >> unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "NLUG" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
