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Suggest me good color printer?

conditions: 1) it should be laser printer (automatic reverse printing) 2) should be under Rs 5000 ( $ 112) 3) ok upto Rs 7000 if it can print-scan-xerox-fax i hv few more questions: in terms of color printing quality and COST (per page) which is better laser or inkjet printer?

Public Comments

1. Laser hands down. The problem with inkjet is that companies like to put time limits on the ink cartridges or dont even fill them half way so u are stuck buying more cartiridges whether u like it or not in short intervals.
2. Canon printers are the best but the ink is wicked expensive. HP printers are alright not the greatest but they're okay, and the ink is not too expensive :)
3. The brother models are a great choice. They are the hot items right now
4. hp office jet 4500 gn-z printer
5. The option you're looking for for reverse-sided printing is duplex printing. In terms of color printing ink-printers are better than color laser printers. In a color laser printer the print quality, color, resolution is determined by the size of the plastic toner beads and how they melt on to the paper. In an ink paper the colors are more rich and vivid and bleed in to the paper. I've traditionally purchased HP printers because you can find the service manuals online pretty easily and parts are readily available. Black and White and color laser printers have a maintenance cycle. In a color laser printer the image roller is external to the toner cartridge, unlike in a black and white laser printer. There is also an image transfer belt. The imaging parts, fuser, feed and pickup rollers come in kits. The kits are commonly called (in HP terms), maintenance kit and image kit. The cost varies by printer and is abut $150 - $350 combined for every 100,000 - 250,000 pages. The toner cartridges are rated a 6% coverage. So on the smaller color laserjet's you're looking at getting between 900 - 1250 color pages printed at 6%. HP has a print cost calculator http://www.hp.com/sbso/productivity/color/print_cost_calc.html Also look at the HP Product Selection Guide available in PDF on HP's website. My advice regarding all-in-ones. Do not go that route. The print speed is going to be slow and if something breaks on one you have to send the whole unit in, thus taking out the print function until the device is fixed. HP's product codes are N = networking, D = duplexing, T = Additional tray. In prior years the models would be specified as DTN if they had all the options. This has been upgraded to X. Also some companies sell a feed kit, which just contains the rollers and no fuser and is generally more affordable. The fuser pretty much lasts a long time in a low print production environment.