NeilT

Hi

Hopefully someone will be able to help here..

We're using bubble jets at the moment to print off delivery notes and address labels and its costing a small fortune in cartridges every month (even though all docs are on fast draft quality).

So I'm thinking of buying a laser to do the same job - question is, forgetting the cost of the unit in the first place, are the less expensive to run than bubbles? Else, any other ideas ?

cheers

Neil

douglasb

Assuming that you're not printing colour, a laser will be cheaper than a bubblejet. A toner cartridge for mine costs about £60 and lasts for about 5000 prints, so that's 1.2p per page.

Scooby Dooby Blue

black laser printers are far from expensive.
We picked up a couple of Samsung ML1210's for £50 each. I believe Office World still have stock at £79.
A new toner is £44 and prints in excess of 2000 full pages. Better still, by a toner refill kit and just drill n fill at a fraction of the cost.

If you're looking for a colour laser, they can now be had for about £300. I wouldn't recommend refilling the toners in a colour though as the slightest difference in toner colour shows a dramatic deterioration in print quality.

Can you not get compatible cartridges for your existing printers? They are about 25% of the price of the genuine ones.

Paul

NeilT

ok thanks for the replies

Have ordered an HP Laserjet from Euroffice £400 ish - be here on Tueday

cheers

Neil

lightning101

You can buy a colour laser Samsung CLP500 for £453 inc vat with £150 cash back from E-buyer at the moment.


£33 for black toner

£58 for Colour toners (each).