On 08/01/2021 12:03, newshound wrote:
On 08/01/2021 08:36, Harry Bloomfield wrote:
After serious thinking newshound wrote :
Six weeks on, the low capacity cartridge is out, at which point I
find it seems to have a "chip" like inkjet ones, nothing third party
available, and cartridge prices vary from £50 for 1300 pages to over
£200 for 6k. And nothing with fast delivery.

I always checked consumable costs, before committing to a purchase.

You cannot beat a used ex-office laser, they sell for peanuts, are
built for hard work and the consumables are silly cheap.

I'd stopped bothering, for mono lasers, although I do check out inkjets.
I've had three ex-ofice lasers, all HP. One A3 (the duplex system
eventually wore out) and two LJ5s. On one of them the "comms" board died
and a replacement was more expensive than another printer, I forget what
happened to the other. There don't seem to be so many around now whereas
there are plenty of cheap home office models. This is the first time I
have been burned. I certainly won't be buying Lexmark again (unless they
turn out to be refillable, I'm waiting to see what Ebuyer say).

Interestingly, I can't post a review for that model on Amazon. They say
something like "There have been a lot of posts for this model and now
they are only accepting reviews from verified purchasers".

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