10/10 Any reccomendations for a cheap monochrome laser printer? Network
not needed. A decent-size starter toner cartridge would be nice.
\_ I got a used HP 2200D off craigslist for $250 or so. It's
great, it does postscript and prints on both sides of the
paper, which is nice. Speed is not too bad. -phr
\_ I recently bought a Samsung 3051n from Newegg for $200 ($250
- $50 mir). It comes w/ a 4000 pg cartridge (which can last up
to 6000 pgs if you use the toner saver mode). The printer has
has ethernet, parallel and USB 2.0. It also features PS3 and
PCL emulation. It is also very fast and quiet when sleeping.
\_ I bought a cheap samsung laser printer about 4 years ago.
The paper feeding mechanism died after about a year. It
sure was cheap though.
\_ While I accept that at the $200 price point this printer
will not be nearly as reliable as a HP 8000 series (or
similar), OP asked for a "cheap monochrome laser printer."
I think that the 3051n easily satisfies his criteria.
Personally, I think the printer will last at least 3
years b/c 3 years is the warranty period.
\_ The newegg page says less then 39 dBA at idle. 39dBa is fairly
loud, IMHO. I remember my dad's old HP 4L was truly silent at
idle.
\_ That's probably not sleeping but idle. If you don't
use it for a minute or so it goes into sleep mode where
it has to warm up for a few seconds if you want to print.
Sleep mode is truely silent.
\_ That is correct. It is somewhat loud in idle (warmed
up but not printing). But, it is completely silent
when it goes to sleep. It takes a few seconds to wake
from sleep and start printing.
\_ OK, I know what PostScript is, but why should I care if a printer
is a PS printer? Doesn't just about everything support PCL anyway?
-OP
\_ Some PDFs won't print properly on a PCL only printer. I'm not
sure why. If you mostly print from Word rather than Acrobat,
I wouldn't worry about it too much. |
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