Thanks for the replies,
I did a lot of information retrieving, and my actual faorites are:
Brother HL-4200CN (has only 64 MB RAM and I would have to buy some extra RAM for quality PS output)
Epson C4100 PS or C4000 PS. 4100 is faster, that's about it, I think.
Both support USB2 and PS, the Epson has also a lot of other emulations including PCL (Brother only GDI). It is quite impossible to get print samples, so this makes my decision somewhat difficult.
A pity the HP color laserjets have only 600 dpi. On the other side, the dpi information is not always clear and sometimes even different values are mentioned. As I have a 1200 dpi b&w laser now, and there is an improvement over 600 dpi, I don't want to go lower. I wonder how the output of a HP 3700dn might be.
1200 dpi are not always 1200 dpi, it seems. So I prefer the models with 1200 optical (real) dpi.
There are OKI printers that seem to be very good, but they are too expensive.
I also found models by Ricoh, Minolta, Lexmark, Panasonic, Xerox, Seiko and others, sometimes looking more than a bit similar, so I think they differ only in their electronics, but this may nonetheless make a big difference.
I might even consider a B&W laser printer, but I want duplex printing on board, an so maybe the price difference may not be so high?
If more people out there have experienses with such printers, I appreciate if they could share them...
Thanks and cheers
Kurt
At 08:02 20.08.2004, you wrote:
I'm working with an Epson C4000 ps; score printing quality can be very high, as you can choose from a vast printing resolution options on the printer drivers panel. Photo's can, as well be printed with high quality resolution. Epson's C4000, can handle 40,000 printed copies per month, and that makes it a printer ideal for office/professional studio work; I use it for printing brochures and info single pages in large quantity as well. The possibility to grade black colour versus gray tones in a high quality output, and combining this with a good quality paper, let's me print very good quality scores; the postscript makes the rest. The only con(s) I met are related to the tray selection from the printing panel: not always what I select corresponds to what tray the printer will use; but this, could probably happen for a non perfect use of the software and printer's setting, so, what I state here is, that I have little problems on tray selecting, and it could be my fault (this is not worrying me much, while I rarely have to change tray or paper format). In conclusion, I'm very glad of my C4000, no technical or printing problems 'till now, and it's gradually paying back the money I invested for, as my financial planning had, in the best case, previewed.
Giovanni Andreani
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