In general, inkjet printers have a lower purchase price and a higher per-page cost. I once read that an Olympic size swimming pool filled with inkjet ink would cost a billion dollars (and it would be a real mess to clean up!) No racket there, I'm certain. Color laser printers have a higher entry price and in general a lower cost per page.
If you're into high quality color prints, nothing touches inkjet quality, though a $40,000 Canon imagePRESS doesn't exactly suck. At Watkins we have several HP color laser printers, and if you do an occasional color calibration they produce "similar" results to the expensive Canon. Of course the Canon uses a photometer for calibration, and has a Fiery RIP to do the fine color tweaks. There are very good quality aftermarket toner cartridges available. We're quite happy with MSE brand cartridges from United Imaging. Curt On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 8:59 AM, Mark J. Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > Side question. Is a color laser like the Phaser cheaper to own and operate > than either a traditional color inkjet and/or these newer fangled color > "pigment" printers (like Epson or Kodak)? I need a decent color printer > of some sort, but since the ink ran out this last time around on my CRAP > HP OJ8500, I decided NO MORE HP color cartridges for me! :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Drew from Zhrodague > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 8:54 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [nlug] Veeeeddddy Intahresting... > > Sometimes it is hard to find the PPD for a printer. With some > older HP models (My beloved HP8K), you have to extract the WIndows driver > and take the PPD out. > > That's a gorgeous printer you have there! > > > On 6/22/12 9:51 AM, Howard White wrote: > > It was time to replace our trusty HP LaserJet 4P (going on 20 years > > old). Still works, probably needs cleaning... We've gotten tired of > > the other color inkjet printer that the cartridges ~!@#$% up so quickly. > > Got a new Xerox Phaser 6280. > > > > The point of this email is to compare the printer installations > > between Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 and Ubuntu Lucid 10.04. I did the Lucid > > machine first and it got all confused (or I got impatient and just > > blasted it). Set the printer up as a Generic Level 1 PostScript and > > it works fine. Pulled up the Hardy system and it found the Xerox > > without any complaint: push, pull, click, wham, bam, thank you ma'am. > > > > Really. > > > > I've been meaning to set up a Precise 12.04 system and just haven't > > gotten around to it at home. I am running Precise at the office with > > some issues. We'll see how well Precise likes finding the Xerox > printer... > > > > Howard > > > > > -- > > Drew from Zhrodague > Tiki Witchdoctor > [email protected] > "Ooga-booga!" > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To > unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
