Worth buying a colour laser printer?

baby_frogmella

Hi

I'm thinking of ditching my old Lexmark printer (cartridges cost £24!!!) and buying a Canon Colour Laser Printer, ebuyer do one for about £200. However I have seen the cost of the replacement colour/bw toner for this printer and they cost around £50 each...i would need 4 of each. I am assuming that the toners on laser printers last longer than conventional inkjet cartridges (hence the cost) but does anyone have any idea how much longer toners last than inkjet cartridges? I mean just taking into account the price of replacement cartridges/toner, which works out cheaper per A4 page, a colour laser or a standard inkjet printer?

Cheers

Little_John

The printer comes with a black which will do 5000 pages at 5% coverage
The printer comes with a cyan which will do 2000 pages at 5% coverage
The printer comes with a yellow which will do 2000 pages at 5% coverage
The printer comes with a magenta which will do 2000 pages at 5% coverage

You can buy high capacity colour which are 4000 pages at 5% again

The imaging drum has a 20000 page life, if you print a colour page it goes through the drum 4 times once for each colour makng the life only 5000 pages.

In reality you will get nowhere near the stated numbers. 5% is a typed page, and you will print photos because they will look brilliant and be printed so quick and they use alot more toner.

Johntea

Photos look terrible on a colour laser - You can't feed it anything other than normal paper!

Get a Epson R2xx/R3xx inkjet printer instead

Willxx

I've posted elsewhere that I got a magicolour 2300 from ebay cheaply you can put decent paper through it although it does jam occasionaly.

The main thing I'd like to add is that the manufacturers set the "toner empty" levels to show when there can be up to 25% of the toner still left. A recent toner empty message on our office laser has yielded over 800 pages extra on both black and colour!