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Best (cheapest) Color Laser Printer for small Club?

Any recommendations for a Color Laser printer for a small club/newsletter, hopefully with one or two toners? I have a Konica Minolta 9600 which is great but 4 toners at $200 each is too much for club to pay.

Public Comments

1. i preffer HP 1018 .
2. When you look at colour laser printers you are always going to have 4 or more toners plus a drum or image transfer belt. There is no way around this. For running cost you are pretty much looking at minimizing your cost per page to get the most out of those 4 toners. Generally Brother and Samsung make low close colour laser printers, however a price tag of only $200 may be a little too modest. YOu can get a samsung CLP-300 for about $300. It does take 4 toners, however there are plenty of compatible options available (you can get a complete set for around $100). The drawback is each toner is only rated for about 1000 pages. Colour laser printing can get very expensive. Normally a more cost effective option is to use a full colour letterhead with black text. To the poster below, the 88XL retails for around $30 each, across 4 cartirdges that comes out to $120 / Set. This is also failing to take into account the 4 print heads which need to be replaced every 3000 pages at a cost of $45 each. Although in the short term the running cost is less, when the print heads start to go, you start to see that cost sky rocket.
3. For all color laser printers, you are look at a min. of 4 cartridges, one for each color. And usually the cheaper the laser printer the more $$ it is to keep. Even the CLP-300 which only cost around $300, for one set of original cartridges it is about $200, and will only give you 1000-2000 prints. Look at this article about HP's new cheap color laser printers - http://oinkinkstore.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/hps-new-color-lasers-cartridges-good-deal-or-not/ I would look at HP's Officejet Pro K5400 series. Speed of a laser without the cost. The base model is about 140 dollars and the large cartridges (88xl's) run about 35 for black and 25 for each color. Black is rated for 2350 pages while the color is rated for 1210 pages each.
4. Avoid Lexmark