12-29-2006, 04:49 PM
Hi, the subject says it all. I would like to get a LASER printer, network interface built in would be nice, and I have seen some All-in-one units from Brother that look pretty good. But I am not stuck to Brother, or all-in-one. A stand alone printer is also fine.
Question for you guys: there are many brand out there: canon, HP, brother, lexmark, minolta, samsung are only a few of what comes to mind right now. I know nothing about toner and drums, and I think this is where you can help me. I read that on some units the drum is part of the toner cartridge, and that makes it more expensive, but you do get a new drum each time and perhaps a better output quality. At the same time, on other units, the drum will last like 25000 pages, i.e you replace the toner cartridge about 5 times before you replace the drum.
So which system is better? Can you recommend one system over another, perhaps recommend a model?
My printing needs are *very* light, I would say about 50 pages per month, but that's because we're too lazy to hook up the printer to the laptop and wait for the ink-jet to do it's thing, I suspect that if we had a networked laser printer we might print up to 100-200 pages per month. Thanks
Question for you guys: there are many brand out there: canon, HP, brother, lexmark, minolta, samsung are only a few of what comes to mind right now. I know nothing about toner and drums, and I think this is where you can help me. I read that on some units the drum is part of the toner cartridge, and that makes it more expensive, but you do get a new drum each time and perhaps a better output quality. At the same time, on other units, the drum will last like 25000 pages, i.e you replace the toner cartridge about 5 times before you replace the drum.
So which system is better? Can you recommend one system over another, perhaps recommend a model?
My printing needs are *very* light, I would say about 50 pages per month, but that's because we're too lazy to hook up the printer to the laptop and wait for the ink-jet to do it's thing, I suspect that if we had a networked laser printer we might print up to 100-200 pages per month. Thanks