Lexmark C780dn - Printer - colour - duplex - laser - Legal, A4 - 1200 dpi x 1200 dpi - up to 33 ppm (mono) / up to 29 ppm (colour) - capacity: 600 sheets - USB, 10/100Base-TX, direct print USB

Advantages: Print Quality
Disadvantages: The Device Can Be Noisy When Waking Up

...has two standard A4 size paper drawers. One can accommodate up to 250 sheets while the other can hold up to 500 sheets. For handling labels, as with other printers, here too we have the manual feeder. The drawback with this manual feeder is that it can take only up to 10 envelopes in one go. The printer also has duplexer; which is required for double sided printing. The consumables are easy to change. You simply need to open the front door and you can see all the four cartridges. They can then be easily removed. Each cartridge can produce up to 6,000 pages each. The replacement black ink cartridge cost 78 pound +VAT. Each of the three color cartridges (magenta, yellow and cyan) cost 101 pound plus VAT. CP3505x has some pretty good electronic items. It has 384 MB memory in the form of 450 Hz Motorola V5x processor. By using standard... Read review

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Advantages: Very fast
Disadvantages: small paper tray

...The Oki B 4600n is a very fast mono printer. Faster than a fast thing going really fast! This is great if you're printing off lots of copies in a hurry, or ideal for printing customer receipts or information when the customer is waiting. This printer is quite small so is good if space is a problem, also network ready so several computers can be connected to it. Oki make very good printers however there are a couple of minor things to watch out for, the drum on this machine seems to get damaged quite easily, if your taking it out and putting it back in, to clear a paper jam or something, be really careful not to let anything come into contact with the surface of the drum. Also the control panel looks nice but is easy to mark. Like I said these are really minor issues. You should be able to pick up a Oki 4600n for around £300... Read review

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Advantages: great printing, low per page cost, simple to set up.
Disadvantages: cost of relpacement cartridges.

...Why a colour laser? ----------------------------- I am stunned at how much the price of laser printers has dropped in the last 10 years or so. Three years ago I bought a Samsung mono laser printer for just under £90, now that same printer can be had for less than £40. With ever falling prices even colour lasers are becoming affordable, my first colour inkjet printer cost around the same as this HP colour laser does today, making it a real option for home printing, especially when you consider the per page costs of using a colour inkjet at home. when you also consider that the print quality is superb, even on plain copier paper, you can see why these machines are so attractive. Ease of set-up -------------------- We acquired this HP colour laser in our regional office and I was asked to set it up. It couldn't have been... Read review

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