What Kind Of Color Printer Are You Using ?

[Pat Butler]

BB- thanks. I do buy a lot of stuff on Ebay and have a closet full of replacement equipment. Found a seller with the actual HP2000 repair and training manual for that's been invaluable. I keep my old HP4+'s going with parts from EBay.

 

[Charlotte Dixon]

Do you all do a lot of color printing?

 

[Dan Leggett]

I only print maybe a dozen reports a year, everything else is PDF. My 1600c just doesn't gee/haw worth a durn with XP. My latest acquisition was a Lexmark Z25.

Lexmark website had a Z?#1 for $39.99 same price at Wal Mart.
Lexmark website had a Z?#2 for $59.99 same price at Wal Mart.
Lexmark website had a Z25 for $89.99 but was $29.99 at Wal Mart.

But print cartridges are $30+ at Wal Mart. I bought b&W + color refill kits for $12 on ebay.

 

[DB]

Here is a review that I did on the Canon I850 almost a year ago on the forum ... FTR ... I am still using the cartridges that came with this print 20 months ago (roughly) and a whole case of paper later .... already into the second case and still going strong ....

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I looked into everything before I started my home office. Color Laser was out for my price range. Long range costs didn't improve my short range cash flow. I searched every consumer site on the Internet for the best value for my money and I settled on the Canon I850 and have never been happier. 25ppm BW and 17ppm Color. When I first went to buy cartridges I almost died! $58.00 for the full load at Sam's!! So I headed back to the Internet and found 4 full loads on Ebay for $24.00 including shipping, then I found out that I wasted the $24.00 because I have never even used the 3 that I bought. It turns out that these cartridges are so easy to fill that I can just pull one out and shoot if full and pop it back in in a couple of minutes. My primary expense is the cost of latex gloves which is very little. My CG is old school and demands that his commercial appraisals have 35mm photos pasted into them. I finally talked him letting me print his photos for him and now even he is happy with my printer. When the other CG in our office started looking for a new printer he came to check mine out. 2 days later he had the I850 sitting on his desk. He got his at Sam's for $150.00 and has never bought a replacement cartridge after I showed him how to refill them. I buy my ink in bulk from datadoc.com and get great color, fast drying and good water resistance. I now print my own enlargements, personal photos and print my appraisals in record time, including the photos on plain legal paper.
As near as I can figure, $25.00 worth of black ink, 3 bottles (which goes the fastest, but has the largest reservoir) lasts me a little over a year, or about 100 full appraisals which includes all of my preliminary work such as tax cards and maps. 3 bottles of color cost about $10.00 each and last twice as long.
I tried the HP60C and I tried other Canon printers, but this is the only one that does it all and prints like a fiend and to top it off ...... you can't even hear it!! I mean it. It is so quiet that sometimes the only way you know it is printing is the paper coming out.
I highly recommend this printer to anyone!!

 

[Bobby Bucks]

Charlotte for the last 3 years I've done practically no color printing at all. 99% is PDF. I print out an MLS sheet in color occasionally just to keep the color cartridges from drying out. I suppose there is a more economical printer out there, but the HP 2200 runs like huge V-8 and with the continuous flow system, ink is cheap.

 

[Mike Garrett RAA]

Pat...my old printer is a 2000c...don't know where the 2003c came from?????? If you want to pay for the packing and shipping I will send it to you. I also have some left over 10 carts you can have too.

 

[Mister Ed]

Originally posted by Bobby Bucks@Aug 20 2004, 03:02 PM
No matter what type of printer you use, I would recommend a continuos flow ink system. It has saved me a bundle. I'm using my 2nd HP2200 and cannibalizing parts from the 1st one.

I'm with Bobby on the continuous ink flow system... have one set up on my HP... it works great and the ink is about 1/2 the costs of standard refills and about 1/3 the costs of replacing cartridges

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

Adobe Acrobat PDF writer is my default printer at home. And the home office. HP Deskjet 950 for the occasional printed pic or text page. Works fine.

We don't bother with color at the uh, office office. Lexmark laser. Don't care for 'em. Too many errors, I guess in the drivers. Beep beep, now what's the problem? Out of paper, the tray is full! I gave up trying to print on letter size paper. :twisted: Note that Dell printers are just rebadged Lexmarks. <_<

 

[Scott Lanz]

HP Color LaserJet 3700dtn, bought it in April and have 22,000 pages so far without a glitch. Cost around $4,000 and a full set of cartriges around $700 (not including drum and fuser).

Scott J. Lanz