Comment Re:Color Laser Printeres (Score 2, Informative) 439
I've got one of the newer Phaser 860 printers from the FreeColorPrinters program.
The ink has been reformulated and will not scratch off the page like the old stuff. You'll destroy the paper before you get the ink off. It won't melt either. You can photocopy prints made with this new ink. It also won't melt like the old stuff if you happen to leave a print in your car or in direct sunlight.
It's not fast, but it's not unreasonably slow either. For most of our jobs (black text with some small color graphics/logos) we get about pages per minute duplexed. The duplexing feature is great! Pages with lots of color coverage at high quality will often take more than 30 seconds, but with the cost of the color ink so high you're not likely to be printing many pages like that!
From a cost standpoint, you do have to be careful what you print with this printer. We went through a couple hundred dollars of ink sticks in the first month. But now we're doing minimal color stuff and haven't bought ink in 4 months.
Printing some photos every now and then won't break the bank. Just don't do like we did and print 100 the first month!
The ink has been reformulated and will not scratch off the page like the old stuff. You'll destroy the paper before you get the ink off. It won't melt either. You can photocopy prints made with this new ink. It also won't melt like the old stuff if you happen to leave a print in your car or in direct sunlight.
It's not fast, but it's not unreasonably slow either. For most of our jobs (black text with some small color graphics/logos) we get about pages per minute duplexed. The duplexing feature is great! Pages with lots of color coverage at high quality will often take more than 30 seconds, but with the cost of the color ink so high you're not likely to be printing many pages like that!
From a cost standpoint, you do have to be careful what you print with this printer. We went through a couple hundred dollars of ink sticks in the first month. But now we're doing minimal color stuff and haven't bought ink in 4 months.
Printing some photos every now and then won't break the bank. Just don't do like we did and print 100 the first month!
