Tally Colour Laser T8024

Advantages: Purchase price, total cost of ownership, quality
Disadvantages: Paper jams

...materials. 14.8p per page for colour presentation. 24.5p for a full page colour photograph. The variation in these prices is a result of the greater percentage of ink coverage. Compared to other budget laser printers this is good value per page. Cartridges are relatively expensive – marginally under £100.00 per consumable. This printer takes four separate cartridges (CMYK) and also has consumables at a similar price connected to the fusing unit. This makes for in excess of £500.00 of consumables in the printer – trust me … you don’t want them all to go at once. The purchase price included a 50% set of cartridges. Although this may sound quite pricey, the figure to examine is the cost per page as this tells you what to expect from a roll. More information about the costs of this printer can be downloaded from the Tally web... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Attractive, quiet, very fast
Disadvantages: Expensive, unreliable, ridiculous pricing structure for consumables that fail

...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 64Mb RAM... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average very helpful

Advantages: Good quality pictures, reasonably fast
Disadvantages: Heavy, bulky and very expensive

...This product was my first purchase of a colour laser printer, which was bought for my office at work. The price was £899. Not the cheapest but I was assured by the supplier that the quality was very good. Indeed the quality is good. I'm very impressed by the high standard of prints, both colour and mono. It performs particularly well on photographs, which are reproduced in excellent quality with an almost glossy finish. The printer comes with 64Mb of onboard memory as standard, which is perfect it would seem. The printer is certainly fast, whipping out colour prints fairly quickly. Sadly, despite its speed and quality, this printer has some fairly big disadvantages. Firstly there is no auto duplex, which costs extra. The printer also seems to struggle with all but plain copier paper, which is a pity when you want colour pics... Read review

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