[dba-Tech] Color Laser

Kathryn,
Sounds like a nice unit!

I had a brother inkjet that uses four seperate ink cartridges. I tend to use
more blue because the company logo is blue but even then I rarely changed
the cartridges out for than a couple weeks apart so for me that just was a
hassle - but then inkjet prices are pretty low, I think those cartridges
were $8 a piece. Now I have an HP 1220 and it has the three together but I
refill it myself (buy ink by the quart) so I fill the colors as needed.
Never much difference in what I fill there either. BTW I've been using
refills for almost 4 years with that printer and haven't had an issue with
it.

I used to have a HP Laser 4500 and it had the four seperate colors. They
were big toner containers and it did save some money having them seperate
(laser toner prices are a bit higher). If you use a lot of one color more
than the others you should see the same results.

Good luck


> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Kathryn
> Bassett
> Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2003 1:20 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Color Laser
>
>
> Depends on how much you are willing to spend on the laser. About
> two months ago, I bit the bullet and bought the HP Laserjet 1500L
> and absolutely love it. Color deskjets have the 3 colors in one
> cartridge, which means if the blue runs out, you have to replace
> all the colors. Not so with this baby! There are four toner
> cartridges in it. So when the blue runs out, you only replace the
> blue toner. It was $900, and I've already gotten back my $100
> rebate, so that makes it $100.
>
> Don't ask me now how I did my calculating since I no longer have
> my figures, but based on quantities and costs etc, I figured that
> printing the average color page would be less than 10 cents.
>
> The only negative I have was that when I tried to hook it up with
> my Linksys, it turns out that it is so new that LinkSys has no
> drivers for it. Instead I had to buy the HP print server, which
> cost more than the linksys print server. I haven't had time to
> hook it up to the router yet, so can't tell you how well the
> wireless part works. I need to do that, and hope to later this
> afternoon, so if that is something you need to know about, ask me
> tomorrow.
>
> --
> Kathryn Rhinehart Bassett (Pasadena CA)
> "Genealogy is my bag" "GH is my soap"
> kathryn at bassett.net
> http://bassett.net
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> > [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of Rocky Smolin
> > - Beach Access Software
> > Sent: 22 Nov 2003 8:34:AM
> > To: dba-tech
> > Subject: [dba-Tech] Color Laser
> >
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I'm writing a manual now into which I've dropped a lot of
> screen shots.  They look
> > much better in color than in black and white.  I think that
> having Kinko's do these
> > on their color laser might be cost prohibitive.  The manual
> will be about 150+ pages
> > when done and of course, not all of the pages will require
> color, although they'll
> > have to charge the color cost for every page.
> >
> > So now I'm thinking about a color laser printer.  Ink jet would
> be far too slow if I
> > have to make these manuals in the quantity I'm praying will be
> necessary.
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience or advice on color laser printers?
> >
> > TIA,
> >
> > Rocky
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