I need to buy a new printer for my office. The printer will be for all office use not just personal, needs to be color, have network capabilities, print very quickly etc. Anybody have any suggestions?
Top 5 Budget Printers. When it comes to printers, the secret to spending smart is not fixating on price tags alone. Experts say low sticker prices usually indicate higher ink replacement costs. "It's really important to look at the price of the ink cartridge and do some research on the page yield and the cost per page to figure out what you're really paying for [every time you print]," says Melissa Riofrio, senior editor at PC World. "In general any printer under $100 and especially any printer under $80 is going to have really expensive ink," she says. With Riofrio's help, we picked five value printers, ranging between $100 and $150, offering both solid performance and low ink costs. The Canon Pixma iP4820 Price: $100 While a $100 printer is often a bad sign of high ink replacement costs, this Canon model is an exception. It is a simple, color inkjet printer — no bells or whistles — but its ink does go a long way. If you're only printing in black, a $16 ink cartridge should print 341 pages, which comes to about 4.7 cents per page. "It's just a win-win. It's very hard to find a win-win in the $100 range," says Riofrio. Epson Stylus NX625 All-in-One Printer Price: $130 This fast, wireless ink jet printer works lets you print, scan and copy. It works well for a small office. Ink costs are also very economical; the extra-high-yield black ink cartridge rounds out to 3 cents per page. You can also print on both sides of the page. Epson WorkForce 520 All-in-One-Printer Price: $130 Like the Epson Stylus above, this model is super-fast and designed for the small office environment to handle high volume printing. You'll also pay very little to print. The standard black ink cartridge costs a little more than $15 and lasts 550 pages, equaling 2.8 cents per page. The HP Officejet 6000 Wireless Price: $120 PC World calls this HP model a "small-office bargain," thanks to solid performance, rich features, including a 250-sheet input tray and low ink costs relative to its sticker price. Replacing the standard black ink in this printer will cost about 4.8 cents per page. HP Officejet 6500A Plus e-All-in-One Price: $150 with $50 instant rebate from HP Riofrio calls this HP Officejet model a "good all-around machine." It has decent speed, print quality and an automatic document feeder that's great for high volume printing or faxing. High-yield black ink cartridges cost $32 and last for about 1,200 pages, totaling 2.7 cents per page. http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-112822-9790-3-top-5-budget-printers?ywaad=ad0035 This article might help you out a lil bit. I like how they break down cost of ink per page. Ink is expensive, find a good printer that doesn't use up alot of ink.
Officejet 8500 series, like the A version. They use the HP 940 inks, which the XL's give you 2200 pages in black, and IIRC, 1700 color. And the ink is in the 30's a piece. Very high yield ink, and much more budget friendly than a color laser. Also it's an all in one, with a top feed scanner etc. Ethernet, USB, wireless capable. Go to a place like staples. You get 10-20% back on inks and money back for recycling empty ink cartridges.
I bought this last year and it has been a fantastic buy. I hated the ink jets. I don't care how great they say they are on ink, they all dry up and end up costing me a ton of money. I've still not gone through the color and black toner cartridges that came with this printer. One of my favorite things about the printer is the network scanning. I set up a share on one of my computers and configured the printer to save scans to the designated share. Now all I have to do is walk up to the printer, click scan to network, let it scan, and then I have the images/documents available to my computers. I don't have to install any software on my computers at all to be able to scan. I also set the printer up in AD so that I never have to install it on any machines. They log in and instantly have access to the printer. Drivers are automatically downloaded/available. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000VLDQQ8 Brother MFC-9840CDW Color Laser Multifunction Center with Wireless Interface and Duplex Spoilered Big Picture Spoiler
We recently bought the 8500A Plus. So far it's been great. I can access it via the Internet and print from anywhere in the world. It has web apps on the printer intself, so I can print off a coloring page for my grandson to color. It has a document feeder and features two sided printing. I can do everything fromthe printer without needing a computer interface. We got it at Costco and it was relatively inexpensive.
Was just told we'll have to search from here: http://www.officedepot.com/catalog/...ine=391844&N=5+509859&Ns=p_ZonePriceSort_74|1 Didn't see the 8500 series listed. Any suggestions from that list? Thanks and I have repped where I could.
Too bad. Staples did have a good deal going, not sure if it's over, but $50 for recycling any old printer and purchasing something like the 8500. I'm on my phone or I'd check through that list People were getting those for under 200 for the premium. Edit, clicked the link. Those are some high end color lasers. I really don't have any input for those. I great a lot of good things about Oki.
It will be supporting 4-5 people but any body in the office can use it (total of 15-20) and there will be a few times during the year where it is called upon to print 5,000+ documents a day or more.
WOW 5k docs a day! You might want to crunch the numbers and consider a Xerox with a service contract. We're going that way at my work because it turns out to be much more affordable than laserjet printers AND there is a repairman a phone call away.
I got it. You're printing money. It's ok- everyone's doing it. Still, you should check Xerox out. May save you money in the long run.
That's the thing, they don't want us leasing or getting into contracts, they want to buy it outright.
Sound penny rich/pound foolish...but I can see that it's out of your hands. I haven't been around big color printers for a couple of years- you probably want to go bigger HP in this case.
