Printer Advice

[jlmns]

Morning all,

I have a client who requires 2 new laser printers - one heavy duty colour and one heavy duty mono. Both need to be networkable, with 500-sheet papertrays. The colour will be used for printing flyers and other marketing type bumpf. They don't require A3.

Can I have some recommendations please. I can spec PCs until the cows come home but very rarely have to supply printers and given that there will be quite an outlay for the client I want to get this right.

Cheers,
James

 

[Jeff Knows]

Not particularly my area either but if by heavy duty you mean "under £1000 each" I'd take a gander at Trusted Reviews. Never steered me wrong and they've got high scorers in every price bracket £200-£1000.

Over that, I have no idea.

 

[Rasta Pickles]

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=dell3115cn

 

[sanjiv]

http://www.ijtdirect.co.uk/?sct=dell3115cn

I don't think I would get one of those.
Oki C710 is good. That is for colour.

 

[Rasta Pickles]

I don't think I would get one of those.
Oki C710 is good. That is for colour.

Dell's are fairly robust units (even if they are sometimes rebadged Lexmarks)

 

[sanjiv]

Dell's are fairly robust units (even if they are sometimes rebadged Lexmarks)

It is the particular copier I am referring too. Not very good. Have you used it before?

 

[Rasta Pickles]

No but the copier/fax/scan facilities on the Dell are intended to be a bonus to the printing capabilities.

For the price, it's a no-brainer.

 

[sanjiv]

No but the copier/fax/scan facilities on the Dell are intended to be a bonus to the printing capabilities.

For the price, it's a no-brainer.

I know someone who has one and have used it a few times before for photocopying many pages. The document feed pulls in the whole stack and jams so you have to hold the rest of the sheets, the scanner quality is not brilliant and not really proper drivers out there for it, fax obviously does the job. It is fast though. Not sure about running costs.

 

[Liite]

I would suggest something either by Brother or Samsung.

Brother Laser printers - either Multifunction or printers - have an onsite warranty(Upon registration) . Where by if the printer fails they will come to your place of work/home within 3 working days free of charge and they can usually fix them then and there.

The same is usually offered on Samsung machines. There consumables are more expensive than Brother but cheaper than HP, Dell, Lexmark etc

Hmmm. It depends on how much volume you would be doing but i'd suggest;

Brother HL2205DN (Networkable Duplex Mono laser Printer)

- RRP £150

and for colour

Brother HL3040CN (Networkable colour laser printer)

- RRP £260


Consumables for both are very cheap too and they yeild on toner is huuuuge

You will struggle to find them with 500 sheet paper trays.

Personally i wouldnt touch Dell, Lexmark or Oki for that matter

And no i don't work for Brother i work for a company where it is my job to sell printers to small businesses/ general public

 

[Ceco Solutions]

Hi James,

I would recommend the following :
HP Color LaserJet CP1515n ( make sure you purchase a 3 year warranty pack)
Samsung SCX-4600 ( excellent b/w printers plus its all in one )

 

[jlmns]

Thanks for the replies - plenty to keep me going there!

James