On Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:30:40 -0700 (PDT), Adam Aglionby wrote:

Phaser at sub £80 looks a good deal, as long as its full fill toner
and not demo as a full set of toners is over £100.

Compare the cost of an inkjet printer to that of its cartridges... It's
not unknown for it to be cheaper to bin the printer when the ink runs out
and buy a new one rather than buy new cartridges.

Also solid inks believe they like left switched on all the time.

Toner is a fine powder. If the print gets a bit streaky towards the end
take the cartridge out and give it a shake to redistribute the toner. Can
squeeze a good few more pages out of one by doing that.

Colour laser versus mono laser, even a cheap mono laser will easily do
20 pages a minute, colour lasers are a lot slower usually, even
running mono only, if your doing a lot of mono printing, mono laser is
going to be faster and cheaper.

Faster maybe but cheaper? The black toner prices are much of a muchness

Laser is always going to be faster than inkjet.

Agreed.

Should keep laser printers away from right beside you as well because
of the ionising effect of the corona wire and toner floating in the
air, mine lives in a hall cupboard with a network cable to it.

For just a few pages a day in a SOHO I don't think that is a worry, you
probably get more exposure to ozone and particulates when you go down to
the shop for a pint of milk. For a an office workgroup printer churning
out hundreds of pages a day it is more of a concern.

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Cheers
Dave.