Cheap B&W printer? It's a new this year 30 page a minute duplex network laser Brother HL-5240DN. It is the best printer I could afford, I wanted a HP, but.... It is photo printers I buy the cheapest I can find, that is because what I want is so far out of my price range it isn't even a joke.
BTW, I have had no clogging problems with the Epson R200 in the couple of years I have had it (can not say that about its predecessor), of course the ink is so expensive I only use it when I have to. However, I do see that there is now some real cheap generic ink out for it. I may try some of that. -graywolf Matt Johnson wrote: > Problem is that you don't even get archival till you hit the epson > R800 inks and above, and i really don't think highly of that printer. > I would maintain a cheap b&w printer like graywolf does, and look into > an R1800 (this guy is about $500) or above for your printing your > photos, its not that big of a step to get into archival quality (price > wise), and atleast your getting something worth the cost of the ink. > (Just my 2 cents though) > Also you can get into some nicely priced archival paper from places > like Red River Paper or Moab. I print almost exclusively Moab, and I'm > thinking of getting an Epson 3800 or a lightly used 4000 for home. the > 4000 has been replaced by the 4800 now but the 4000 you can get very > large 220 ml cartridges for a hundred a piece, and they go forever. > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:51:10 -0400 >> From: graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: Looking for a printer (mostly low-end) >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed >> >> If you have been using a Laser Printer, you will be shocked at the cost of >> ink. Check that out, you may well be better off buying those new toner >> cartridges for hundreds of dollars up front. My Epson R200 costs a hundred >> bucks to buy new Epson ink carts for (locally). You say, "But the toners >> each cost more than that". To which I reply, "Yes but the toners are good >> for hundreds or thousands of pages, the ink carts are good for about 20-30 >> photos". >> >> That said I use a B&W laser for all text printing, and the Epson only for >> photos and CD's. >> >> -graywolf >> >> >> Thibouille wrote: >>> My Epson colour laser being at the end of its life (toner are low, >>> it'd cost more than the printer price to buy new ones) I will soon >>> need to replace it. >>> >>> I still do not know if I will go colour laser or inkjet but price of >>> the laser will probably drive toward inkjet. >>> Idealy, I'd like an inkjet which could print well my pictures, serves >>> as well as general printer (I don't want to change cart everytime and >>> lose on ink because of it) and be a network printer as well. >>> >>> I found the HP 6940/6980 (the 6980 aslso as recto/verso and wifi) to >>> be the kind of thing I want. I do not know however what to think about >>> the quality output of these as well as the average cost. >>> >> >> > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
