David Beasley
Senior Member
- Joined
- Dec 12, 2003
- Professional Status
- Certified Residential Appraiser
- State
- North Carolina
I guess I'm lucky, I haven't had a single lender request for a hard copy in nearly a decade.
I do the occasional private appraisal for lay folks, and when I do, I just shoot my photo pages to my old Epson P2200 photo printer (discontinued some time ago I think). I bought it for my photography hobby, and can print larger format images (13"x19" borderless) and long banners with it too (13"x44")...it has 7 ink cartridges, which last a while at low quality (all it needs for an appraisal, high quality on this printer is meant for museum/gallery-quality prints). I think I've printed only 1-2 appraisals like this for civilian (non-lending) uses over the past 2 years. But even on basic 24lb bright white office stock, in low quality settings, it still blows our old HP Deskjet 1600C out of the water. That one was our color workhorse when we first went digital back in the early-mid '90s.
If I were to go back to printing everything for everybody again today, I'd go with color laser...but that's just me. We wanted one when we bought our HP 1600C back in the day, but the cheapest one available back then was still on the order of $4000 (the 1600C was $1200 as it was). Thankfully, their prices have dropped considerably in the 15-16 years since. But it would have to be network ready and duplexing too. I already spend enough on this business so I am not going to print everything on "page fronts" only for my file. Back-to-back duplex printing saves me several trees worth of paper every year. And you cannot beat the speed of print-starts of a networked printer, IMHO anyway. Certainly not with USB or Firewire anyway. As such, our present all-purpose printer is the HP-2055dn - basic 19ppm B+W laser with (d) duplexing and
networking built-in. No, it doesn't print 19ppm when duplexing, but I bet it kicks out better than 15ppm while doing it.
I do the occasional private appraisal for lay folks, and when I do, I just shoot my photo pages to my old Epson P2200 photo printer (discontinued some time ago I think). I bought it for my photography hobby, and can print larger format images (13"x19" borderless) and long banners with it too (13"x44")...it has 7 ink cartridges, which last a while at low quality (all it needs for an appraisal, high quality on this printer is meant for museum/gallery-quality prints). I think I've printed only 1-2 appraisals like this for civilian (non-lending) uses over the past 2 years. But even on basic 24lb bright white office stock, in low quality settings, it still blows our old HP Deskjet 1600C out of the water. That one was our color workhorse when we first went digital back in the early-mid '90s.
If I were to go back to printing everything for everybody again today, I'd go with color laser...but that's just me. We wanted one when we bought our HP 1600C back in the day, but the cheapest one available back then was still on the order of $4000 (the 1600C was $1200 as it was). Thankfully, their prices have dropped considerably in the 15-16 years since. But it would have to be network ready and duplexing too. I already spend enough on this business so I am not going to print everything on "page fronts" only for my file. Back-to-back duplex printing saves me several trees worth of paper every year. And you cannot beat the speed of print-starts of a networked printer, IMHO anyway. Certainly not with USB or Firewire anyway. As such, our present all-purpose printer is the HP-2055dn - basic 19ppm B+W laser with (d) duplexing and
networking built-in. No, it doesn't print 19ppm when duplexing, but I bet it kicks out better than 15ppm while doing it.