Printer Saga, part 2

[pbray]

Through the miracle of the internets discovered that the printer I wanted is currently on sale on the OfficeMax website (note nearest OfficeMax is an hour away). Free shipping on orders over $50, so voila, printer has been ordered and should arrive by the weekend. It's a Brother color laser with 250-sheet input tray capacity and a theoretical top speed of 21 pages per minute.

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[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Color laser--cool! And the 250-sheet input tray is nice. Why most printers only allow 50-100 sheets at a time is beyond me.

How much are the cartridges?

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Cartridges aren't bad, between $60-$70. There are separate cartridges for black, red, blue and yellow, and a little LCD display on the printer showing the toner level for each cartridge so you get a warning before they run out. They also have high-yield versions of the cartidges, and I'll probably shell out the twenty-five bucks more to get the high-yield black when it's time to replace it.

I'll be cutting my per page costs roughly in half, and the time to print a manuscript should go from 2 hours to about 30 minutes (the PC review said B&W speed in their testing was 16 pages per minute versus the advertised 21, but that's still 4 times faster than my current inkjet).

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I have an HP all-in-one inkster, and an old HP 1100 laserjet that I attached to the mac via adapters and cobbled drivers--it had only a serial port, and so HP never wrote Mac drivers for it. Some things I just can't print, but it works with MacWord, it has a tiny footprint, and I just changed the toner cartridge. Still have 2 to use up. Could last another couple of years, with some luck.

[scbutler.livejournal.com]

This saga seems to have had a happy ending. I'm dreading a printer malfunction of my own when I finally print out book three. Perhaps I will pick your brain then.

Unless it was already picked clean in Saratoga Springs.

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Well if I like it, I'll let you know. It's hard to combine price/features plus "less than the size of a small elephant." I'd actually contemplated a b&w laser with a cheap all in one inkjet on the side for those rare occasions when I do need color, but this seemed a decent compromise.

[jlawrenceperry.livejournal.com]

HUZZAH!

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Very cool indeed.