Advantages: Reasonable cost cartridges available. Good quality Disadvantages: Large. No network adapter.
I have owned this printer for a few months now and I am very happy with it. I wouldn't normally recommend HP since other brands are often cheaper. Often, they are identical models too, Canon have made a lot of printers for HP in the past.
This time was different, the HP was the cheapest colourlaser I could find where the cartridge prices were also reasonable.
Being a laser printer, these do take drums as well as toner cartridges. All laser printers do, but the cartridges for this one come together with the drum. This means to the end user, you only need to change 4 toner cartridges, one for each colour of black, cyan, magenta and yellow.
They are the standard four colours but you need to be careful when ordering replacements. Normally, manufacturers list the cartridges in the following order: black, cyan, magenta, yellow. The part ...
Advantages: Attractive, quiet, very fast Disadvantages: Expensive, unreliable, ridiculous pricing structure for consumables that fail
add to the cost of the printer to buy a spare of each of the major consumables.
3: You wish to pay through the nose for parts that fail. (Can you see this happening in any other industry? - "I'm sorry sir, you're car has spontaneously combusted within the warranty period but we estimate that the car should last for five years and consequently you have used 20% of the car's serviceable life ? we'll need to make a 50% charge if you want the car replacing!")
4: You wish to start a relationship with a charming printer repair man and don't have the time or money to go through an online dating service.
Believe me when I say the Tally representative is close to having his own office in our workplace.
The specification should it still interest you is:
A4 - 31ppm black and white
A4 - 8ppm colour
USB or Ethernet connection
1200 X 600 dpi ...
Advantages: Purchase price, total cost of ownership, quality Disadvantages: Paper jams
Thanks in advance for reading this review of the Tally 8006e colourlaser printer.
This is the first colourlaser printer I have had to use regularly and without spoiling my overview that I will put at the end of the review, I am seriously impressed. The quality is superb and the value for money I believe to be good also.
We purchased our Tally 8006e to replace a Hewlett Packard networked inkjet printer (2500) that was proving unreliable on the network and expensive in ink. A little research showed that the cost per page jumps down quite significantly when using a colourlaser printer. To help you fully appreciate this printer I will break down the individual elements that may be of use when purchasing.
COSTS
This printer cost us £649.99. This for a colourlaser printer puts it firmly at the budget end of the market. There are ...
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Manufacturer's product description
The T8024 is the first of new generation of color printers with the speed and workload up until now only seen on Mono Laser printers. Imagine being able to print reports, charts and presentation handouts at the same speed as your mono network printer. Tally brings you this reality, the T8024, a 24 page per minute color printer. PCL6 Emulation will make light work of office applications and for the professional color users an Adobe PostScript 3 option will accurately reproduce colors and all this at an incredible 24 page per minute. The T8024 comes with the paper handling to deliver: duplex comes as standard, long with a multi-purpose feeder and a 500 sheet cassette, which can be further enhanced with the addition of two lower 500 sheet cassettes giving enough paper capacity for any network user. Like all Tally color lasers the T8024 comes complete with its own network interface for simple connection to all Windows operating systems. Apple Mac and Novell can be catered for by the addition of simple network upgrade option. Cost efficiency, compatibility, performance and reliability make the T8024 the only color network printer worth considering.
