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My inkjet printer day from hell and a question about color lasers

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  1. PeterS

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    I needed cartridges for my HP 5650 & Dell AIO Inkjet Printers yesterday. I took six empty cartridges down to the new Island Inkjet store to be filled. The bill was about $95 (I saved about $120 Vs buying new).

    I got the cartridges home and tried them. The refilled Dell cartridges printed like crap an I could not get the HP ones to work. I broke a tab on the cartridge clip in the Dell printer and tried to glue the tab, but ended up gluing the entire assembly shut!

    I called the shop owner that filled them and he walked me through the cleaning process on my computer. The Dell still worked like crap and with the HP, he started walking me through a procedure to put electrical tape on the contacts (Some sort of reset trick), placing it in the printer and pulling it out and re-installing! At that time I said SCREW IT!

    Back at the store to get my money back for the refills, the guy THEN stated that they see a lot of trouble with Dell & the HP5600 series....Thanks for telling me after I wasted two hours of time I didn’t have in the first place!

    With my money back, I went to Staples and bought a $700 OKI color laser printer. It looks pretty cool, but I have no idea how long the four cartridges are going to last. The set of four replacements run about $500! Since I do a fair amount of custom color brochure printing for my business, am I going to spend $2K+ a year for these new cartridges?
     
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    I'm glad to read this - this is exactly what I was gonna suggest after reading the title to your thread. I'm looking into it too when somebody told me I'd probably save 0.15 a page by moving from inkjet to laser.
     
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    #3 PeterS, Jun 19, 2005
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    It sure looked smaller in the store! I just printed a few test pages. Twenty times faster than the inkjet. WOW-WEEE!
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  4. Artherd

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    I now own TWO HP 2840 color laser AIOs. They're fantastic. I've printed about 1,000pages (mixed) on both of 'em and am sitting at 92% toner.

    Even though they're 'slow' for a color laser (5ppm I think) they still kick the snot out of any inkjet!!!

    Best part, $999 at CompUSA. That's real good for color LASER scanner, copier, fax, and printer.

    Save the inkjets for the casual 2-page a week homeowner. COLOR LASER is it for business!!!
     
  5. FarmerDave

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    Ben, how well does it work as a copier? Is it flatbed, or sheet-feed?
     
  6. Schatten

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    Peter, can you look at the refills on the deskjets. Just need the last few numbers. Could be someting like 95A, or something similar. Give me the codes, I might have some spares laying around.

    And I still dig my samsung laser printer, works like a champ. Laser might be expensive toner wise, but quality and paper count it actually comes out quite less in the long run.
     
  7. PeterS

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    I threw the Dell inkjet printer in the garbage (And it felt good!). I have two Dell cartridges, # T0529 if anybody can use them. I'll mail them free. Thanks for the offer though.
     

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