For the most part, people dont need to print in color except for pictures. Now this is just for photos, for most other things an inkjet is fine. This is not how you want to print family photos to put in the album or toss in your big box of photos. Photo paper doesn't matter either, all it does it make it look 'shiny' like a real photo would. No matter who makes the inkjet, the technology is all the same: squirt some ink onto paper and let it dry.
I used to work for HP and hated that they pimped out these "Photoprinters" because they are pieces of shit. The Costco photo (or any other professionally done photo) you just take a cloth and wipe off, looks good as new. The laserjet photo will have water spots on it, but you'll still be able to see the photo. Take that Costco photo, laser jet print out, and inkjet photo on photo paper. The small physical size of the 2430 is certainly a notable difference when comparing the two. As mine is hanging off the network anyway I don't care that it's missing the USB 2.0 and camera printing features the 2430 has. Those features, combined with the more solid construction quality, make me feel like it's a better value overall for me even at the higher price and slightly slower speed. The 2350 actually has Postscript 3 and enough RAM to use it (128MB vs the 32MB in the 2430). I got 2500 pages out of the black toner that came with the printer compared with the spec'd 1500, haven't had to replace the others yet. It just prints and all I have to do is feed it new toner periodically.
But I don't feel like I'm refilling ink and fighting with print heads clogging every day. As is covered, these printers don't quite match a good inkjet for photo quality. Just cheap enough per page when printing monochrome jobs to be my only printer, while giving decent enough color print quality for most things. I've owned a 2350EN ($700 at vendors like newegg, $600 after rebate there right now) for about 18 months now and am extremely happy with it. This review seems fair in how it covers the product. I heard a rumor that Dell printers (and thus supplies) will be selling at Staples soon, but I don't have anything to back that up. Additionally, the only place to get supplies is at for now, so be prepared for shipping costs. Laser printers have their uses, but photo printing isn't one of them, even the least expensive inkjet photo printers have double or triple the resolution of even a quality color laser.ĮDIT: RE: Dell printers, they're rebadged Lexmarks, which. I do agree with your point about ink, though, toner is a lot less expensive in the long run. This isn't bottom-barrel stuff either, it's HP. Heck, for $499, you can get a 30ppm/20ppm all-in-one with wired and wireless networking and a automatic document feeder. No, it's not $.17, but I don't have to drive to Costco to print what I want to print out. With the bundle packs (ink + paper), 4圆 prints cost less than $.30, and certain brands can dive below a quarter per print. Additionally, the cost of photo printing at home has gone down. For $499, you can get a 26ppm black/22ppm color, 4800x1200 resolution networkable inkjet printer. It seems like you've been out of the loop for a while when it comes to inkjet printers. Then a more standardized comparison could be put together without anyone person having to get ahold of all the different printers themselves. It might be possible to organize a number of us with different kinds of laser printers to put together a unified testing setup (ie., a uniform collection of different images to test with, PDFs, documents, etc). Still, that isn't that many pages, and could easily be used in 3-6 months for an average small office.įor the future, a more useful review, although admittedly much more difficult/expensive, would be a comparison of a number of the different lower-end color laser printers currently on the market. This figure will of course depend on what inkjet you are comparing with, I chose one from HP that I have some experience with, feel is feature competitive, and retails for around 140 dollars.
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For example, taking the difference between average cost for a color print on inkjet versus laser printer (I get around 53 cents), and then figuring out how much printing it takes to pay back the premium for the laser printer yields about 685 full color page equivalents. One thing that might be good to include just for perspective is a quick calculation on consumable efficiency payback, to help put things into perspective.
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