I'm just an ugly bag of mainly water.... A regular guy in fact.
I'm just an ugly bag of mainly water.... A regular guy in fact.
Member since:30.05.2006
Reviews:3
Having suddenly started generating a lot of monochrome output I decided to take the pressure off my existing photoprinter - especially as the price per page is in excess of 30p.
I did a bit of research and ended up with this one that fit my needs - I needed something with a parallel interface to couple onto a network print server I already had, or that had an ethernet interface built in. The latter pointed me in the direction of printers in the £150-200 range - way more than I really wanted to pay.
Anyway - enough of my life story - I bought it, it arrived and I unpacked it. It's a reasonably compact footprint for a printer - and unlike most others in the price range it has a proper paper drawer - so your unused paper stock is not out and being covered in dust. All the packaging removed, toner cartridge was installed (slight toner spill in doing so) and power applied.
The printer warmed up and immediately gave a paper jam error. Turned to the manual to discover that the two printed books that arrived with it are the warranty and the quick start guide - neither having any paperfeed error hints. After about 10 mins of jiggling the toner/drum assembly it worked and has remained working ever since.
The config page I requested certainly fired out of the printer in under 10s from cold - and the subsequent page came out in double quick smart time following it.
Connected up to the PC to test prints from the PC and after an uneventful install of the drivers, test prints were forthcoming - again in rapid fire fashion. It doesn't live up to the 19ppm marketing hype - but then again nor does any printer ever created live up to the raw speed of it's core engine. I estimate that I'm getting between 10 & 15 pages per minute output which is stupidly fast for light to moderate personal use.
As is usual with laser/LED printers there is slight page curl in the output - but it is just that - slight. Given 10 minutes on a flat surface it's almost totally flat once more.
In operation it has a noticable fan noise - although it's no worse than any other laser/LED printer I've ever used in my opinion and it's considerably quieter than the mechanism noise on some of the inkjets I've had in the past.
Toner costs around £20-25 for 2500-3000 pages (depending upon how it's measured) which equates to 0.7-1.0p per page in toner costs.
The drum has a quoted life of 25000 pages, but perversely currently costs more than the printer itself, which seems totally mad. When mine reaches that stage of its life, I shall probably be considering replacing it though (if I need to).
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