Color laser printer

[jack-rp9/bkPP+cDYtjvyW6yDsg at public.gmane.org (Jack Coats)]

The only other big ticket item on laser (or other printers) to consider 
is the power.  Especially for home use the power during printing (which 
is much greater for heaters, feeding motors, etc) is insignificant.  The 
'standby' or 'idle' power used in the long hours the printer is not used 
well could be more.

I really like having a color laser, but like computers, the standby 
power needs to be 'almost nothing' to make it a viable long term tool, 
at least for me.  Yea, I'm going through a 'greening' phase in my life, 
so excuse any zealousness.  I am trying to temper it with reason as much 
as possible.

Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 01/23/2009 09:28 PM, Robert La Ferla wrote:
>> The Brother HL-4070CDW is hands down the best color laser printer I
>> have ever used.  It was a breeze to set up.  It has built-in  
>> Ethernet.  The color is crisp and it can print on both sides of the  
>> page (duplex printing.)  I have the HL-2700CN at home but the  
>> HL-4070CDW at work is everyone's favorite printer.  $469 from  
>> Amazon.com.  Only caveat is that color toner is $$$$.
>>   
> I've heard many good things about Brother printers and Linux, and if I 
> had not gotten the HP Color Laserjet 4500n free, I might have bought a 
> Brother. The compatible cartridges at Ink Jet Superstore are $63.99 
> compared to $20 black. $35 color for the cartridges I bought for the 
> HP. The Brother cartridges from them are $143.99. One of the things 
> that one should look at when considering a printer is the use and page 
> yield per cartridge. Today you can get a decent ink-jet printer for 
> well under $100, but when you consider the price of ink, The page 
> yield for the Brother is about 6600 pages per cartridge. In contrast, 
> the page yield for the black ink jet (Officejet 5610) that I also got 
> free for wife is 430 black, 130 tri-color. The HP cartridges are 
> $16.99 at Ink Jet Superstore.  So, you are talking about  $0.04 per 
> page in contrast to  about $.02 per page for a Brother laser (Brother 
> Black cartridges). Color is more expensive, but still a similar ratio. 
> Basically, in a home environment, your laser will run for a few years 
> without needing a new cartridge depending on use.
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