Printer recommendations?

[pbray]

Many years ago, flushed with success after selling my first book, I purchased an HP inkjet printer. As I recall it was on sale for $399.

Pause. Blink. $399. A bargain at the time.

It still works, but it's slow. The input paper tray holds a maximum of 100 sheets, and the output tray needs to be emptied if there are more than 50 sheets in it, otherwise they begin spewing all over the floor. Normally this isn't an issue, except for the times when I need to print an entire manuscript. As happened recently, when I needed to print off not one by three copies, which meant an entire evening of babysitting the printer.

I'm now toying with the idea of purchasing a laser printer. Any thoughts or recommendations? I thought about it last year but was lazy and never got around to making a decision. But the prices of B&W laser printers have come down so much that it's really foolish not to have one.

Comments

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I bought a small-office grade HP laser printer a few years back, for the reason you mention -- printing off multiple copies of manuscripts. The difference between 4 ppm and 30 ppm gets amazing at about 500 pages...

Toner is a lot cheaper per page than inkjet, a definite plus.

The input tray only holds about 250 sheets and I have to pull output at about the same time, but that doesn't really qualify as babysitting. This is a model 2300, which I suspect has been replaced in the product line.

Also have an inkjet all-in-one for color printing and faxes.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Exactly! At 4 pages per minute it's 2 hours for each copy of the manuscript, which is a lot of time spent websurfing and playing freecell.

HP lasers seem to predominate among the writers I know, and most people are happy.