You're quite right. Computer Choice recently did a survey of colour printers. The one aspect that stood out was the cost of consumables, which, in short order, could easily exceed the initial cost of the printer.
Bill Bennett. >>>>>> "Jon" == Jon <[email protected]> writes: > > Jon> How much do you value your limbs at? We have a Brother HL-5250DN > Jon> which we are fairly happy with. The current successor seems to be > Jon> this: > > Jon> http://www.shopbot.com.au/pp-brother-hl-5340d-price-181171.html > > Jon> which is listed starting at $218. > > We bought outselves a second-hand Lexmark C510 --- which does colour and > duplex, at 30ppm with postscript (it cost around $260 from eBay). > > > It's worth looking for something with native postScript. But also > check consumables, and how many pages you're expecting to get through. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
