Advantages: Reliable, handles high volumes
Disadvantages: Looks pants

...in May 2004 and decided a huge clear out was essential. This went from the huge server right down to keyboard and mice, printers included. We use this as network printer and to date has been extremely reliable, considering it's being used in an accounts department and sees a high volume of statements, letter and invoices running through it. SO WHAT DOES THE MANUFACTURER SAY? "The Epson AcuLaser C8600 is the perfect professional printing solution for users who require exceptional quality colour and mono output on a range of media formats from C5 up to A3W in size. The heart of the AcuLaser C8600 is its powerful printer controller. A high performance 400 MHz processor and a uniquely designed Epson AcuLaser Color ASIC combine to ensure maximum throughput by the rapid processing of even the most complex and demanding color print jobs... Read review

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Advantages: Superb Colour Quality
Disadvantages: Bit big, bit noisy and a bit fiddly

...I've lived with ink-jet printers for years. Canon gave me the first bubble-jet and Epson have supplied the later models - various models of Stylus including C80, C84 and C86. They get heavy use for work and all have given some headaches with clogged heads. So a mixture of desperation and hope, together with keen pricing, has led me down the colour laser printer road. The Epson Aculaser may not be a cute laser, but it does work a treat. Specification ++++++++++ I'll not go into all the technical stuff, it is readily available from Epson's site or any of the dealers. But what you need to know is that this printer uses a laser and is a 4 pass machine, doing each colour separately. That makes it a tad slower than single pass machines... but much cheaper. It uses four toner cartridges - black, magenta, cyan and yellow... Read review

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Advantages: High speed, high definition
Disadvantages: Cost of a paper tray

...In modern buisiness, as with newspapers in the last 15 years, Colour is creeping more and more into our printed documents. No longer will Black Ink on a white page suffice. Now it is expected that printing sould be multicolour or your print outs will look dated. It was with this in mind that my department were set the task of finding a suitable Colour Laser printer that was great quality, affordable and reliable. With this brief in mind, It was the Epson AcuLaser C4100 that we settled on. However, it still has good and bad points as I will discuss. Firstly, lets look at....... It is big! that is one thing that will strike you and heavy too! It will need a good sturdy desk to support its weight. Most office printers nowadays with additional Paper bins are big but this one is massive! We also have monochrome Lexmarks... Read review

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Advantages: Reliable and good print quality
Disadvantages: very noisy and rubish at doing lables

...Last year my farther felt the need to get rid of our old inkjet and replace it with the AcuLaser C900 which to me seemed like a good idea as we tend to print quite a lot. however several months down the line I'm not 100% convinced it was the right decision. Good points: • Does good quality colour and B/W prints. • Prints large documents much faster than your standard ink jet. • Easy to set up via USB. Bad points: • Very noisy especially when you turn it on and start printing. • Slow to start printing so would be no good for the odd couple of pages. • Consumables are very expensive. • As you might expect the are very large printers. I would recommend this printer to you if you were either a small business or if you printed a lot of longish documents. I would definitely say no if you... Read review

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Advantages: Price, Ease Of Use, Easy Setup
Disadvantages: Possibly The Size, Can struggle with Labels if Not Careful

...Having purchased a number of the C1100's predecessor, the AcuLaser C900, purchasing one of these was seen as a natural step, and is a step that has not proved dissapointing. The printer comes well packaged, and protected, it what is possibly a slightly oversized box! Following the instructions through the initial setup is easy, and your also guided by the LCD display. Once you have installed the various consumables, and hooked it up to you PC via either a Parallel or USB connection, installing the drivers (on Win XP) was also straight forward. When printing it can take a short while to get going, but isn't anything other than you'd expect of a laser printer, and is also reasonably quiet. The print quality is good, and for general colour printing in an office envrionment, it proves excellent value for money. The one thing... Read review

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Advantages: Extreemly Fast Colour Printing and superb Quality
Disadvantages: Large very very large, costly Replacement toner

...I bought this Laser Printer to use for my small home based Business having previously had a Small Epson Colour inkjet which like most epson injet printers had suffered the blocked print head of death i also had a small samsung black and white laser printer which needed a new toner cartridge which would have cost more than i paid for the printer in the first place so i decided to go for the all in one option of a colour laser in recent years the costs of colour laser printers has dropped greatly and this model cost me £195+Vat which all things considered isn't bad atall especialy for a high profile brand such as Epson set up took a while as it wasn't as simple as open the top and put the cartrdges in like you would with an inkjet instead having to press buttons and wait for the internals of the machine to get ready... Read review

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Advantages: Good printouts, Cheap to buy
Disadvantages: Bit Noisy, Price of Toners

...At only £399 including VAT for this colour laser printer, it's really quite hard to fault it for the money. It's only recently that the prices have come down for colour lasers, so they are now in the price range for the small office. We have only just recently bought our third C900, having had several of the older Epson C1000 printers before. Needing to get another laser, my first intentions were to get another C1000, but they had unfortunately been replaced by the smaller (and cheaper) C900 so we thought we would give it a try. Luckily for us, the gamble has definately paid off. The printer is of average size for a printer of this type (about the size of a 21" TV) so can just about fit on a desk, but we found it far better to stick ours on a small table beside the desk. It is best to get someone to help when you have... Read review

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Advantages: Extremely Fast
Disadvantages: Not to keen on a cold room!

...The Epson C4100 - Here's my review on it. Hope you enjoy reading it and thanks. ------------------------------------------------ We have had one of these Epson c4100 in the office for just over a year now, and it has been amazing. It probably one of the best buys our office has made in years! Now,a couple of months ago we bought another to assist in the work load. I've worked out that it can churn out 50 pretty average content pages in just under 5 minutes. now thats moving some!! The slight down side of them is...the parts to replace them. our first machine started wearing out parts about 6 months ago and had done well over 30,000 sheets. the photoconductor was the most exensive part at about £300 from memory. The toners ranged from aprox £20 for the black one and up to about £100 for the colour ones. its not a cheap... Read review

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Advantages: Cheap, excellent print quality, brilliant new ink technology
Disadvantages: Replacement cartridges are expensive

...Our Canon BJC-6200 was finally binned this week. Whooppee! The Canon BJC-620 died about two months ago and was replaced with an Epson Stylus C64. We liked it so much we bought... no, not the company, but we did buy another one! The new one arrived today, and I thought it would be good to write the review of this printer as I unpack the box and plug it in, then tell you a bit about why I like it so much. Here goes... THE PACKAGING The first thing to notice is that as the sellotape is removed from the top of the box, a good amount of the pretty green external colouring comes with it. This reassures me that the box hasn't been opened before. The outer carton is sturdy, and inside there is a small piece of cardboard and the usual unrecyclable polystyrene packaging. The packaging was good enough to see the printer delivered to me... Read review

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Advantages: Good Quality Prints & Lots Of Useful Features
Disadvantages: Small Colour Ink Provided

...Epson Stylus DX8400 Before Christmas we set out looking for a new printer for the computers as we didn't currently have one and were fed up of using my dads to print stuff out. We went into the local town of Burton on Trent and found a computer shop they had quite a wide selection of printers, after having a look through them we decided we would like an Epson because they are reliable, cartridges aren't overly expensive and Epson is a trusted brand that we have used previously without any problem. So having decided upon an Epson we narrowed the model down and picked the Epson Stylus DX8400 it had everything we wanted and also had a cool LCD display screen for viewing status information and also images that are downloaded off any memory cards which I thought was a really useful feature. The Epson Stylus DX8400 is far from... Read review

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