[OT] Seeking cheap mono laser (under £200)

[Lem]

Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for
under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month.

Are there any models which are outright winners in this category?

By the way, are inkjets competitive at this price? Injkjets always
seemed to be a bit slower and a bit poorer quality than mono laser
and the running costs seemed to be higher. Maybe this has
all changed?

 

[Nick]

Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for
under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month.

Are there any models which are outright winners in this category?

By the way, are inkjets competitive at this price? Injkjets always
seemed to be a bit slower and a bit poorer quality than mono laser
and the running costs seemed to be higher. Maybe this has
all changed?

I've just brought a Samsung ML 1750 for £107 including next day delivery see
pricerunner - (in fact I was sent a ML 1755 which has 32mb of memory!).
Very small laser with good print quality and speed.

 

[R D S]

Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for
under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month.

Are there any models which are outright winners in this category?

By the way, are inkjets competitive at this price? Injkjets always
seemed to be a bit slower and a bit poorer quality than mono laser
and the running costs seemed to be higher. Maybe this has
all changed?

The Brother HL series are OK and you cqan get one in Makro for £100.
Consumables are cheap also, a 6000 page toner cart is about £40.

Rick

 

[Dorothy Bradbury]

Since you're only doing 200-250 pages per month, the smaller end A4
lasers will do fine - check for special offers on the Samsung printers.
They are quick (12ppm+), very quiet, very small footprint.

Dabs have the ML-1510, with free 32MB USB stick - £81.07 inc VAT.
Integral paper-tray so very compact, and preferable to paper-stacked high.

Remember most printers do not come with a USB cable.
The Samsung may have both parallel & USB printer ports.

 

[Lem]

I've just brought a Samsung ML 1750 for £107 including next
day delivery see pricerunner - (in fact I was sent a ML 1755
which has 32mb of memory!). Very small laser with good print
quality and speed.

I Googled and saw that the Samsung ML 1750 comes with a cartridge
that has an expected life of 1000 pages (replacement cartridges can
expect 3000 pages). What is the cost of a new cartridge?

 

[Bernard Peek]

Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for
under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month.

Are there any models which are outright winners in this category?

This month's Computer Shopper has a review of budget laser-printers.
They recommend the Oki B4250 at £189 and the Samsung ML-1710 at £73.

 

[Matt]

I've just brought a Samsung ML 1750 for £107 including next day delivery see
pricerunner - (in fact I was sent a ML 1755 which has 32mb of memory!).
Very small laser with good print quality and speed.

Those Samsungs work with Linux, Mac, and XP. Even if you are just using
XP now, you don't want your OS choice inhibited a year or two from now.

 

[Tim Auton]

I Googled and saw that the Samsung ML 1750 comes with a cartridge
that has an expected life of 1000 pages (replacement cartridges can
expect 3000 pages). What is the cost of a new cartridge?

Searching for "ML 1750 toner" should find you some results and some
adverts.

As an aside: Use another search engine, at least when you want to see
adverts (you do in this case). Google used to be far better than the
competition, but the gap has closed considerably. Monopolies are bad
and supporting diversity in this case isn't painful at all.


Tim

 

[Yassir Dotsmah Beh-Beh]

Am looking for cheap mono laser printer for personal home use for
under about £160. Will print about 200 to 250 pages a month.

Two printers come to mind.
I just bought a Brother HL-1440 for about $150(US) and I'm happy
with it. Note that you will probably want to upgrade the memory. It
has 2 meg built-in but you need to upgrade to at least 10 meg to use
higher grapic settings. Upgrades are in the form of 72 pin SIMMS
which are cheap and readily available.
Another choice is the Samsung ML-1710 which was about $25 cheaper.
But be sure to check into the price of the replacement toner cartriges
-- replacement for the Brother is ~$50 while the Samsung runs ~$75, so
you make up the price difference with your first toner replacement.
Also (according to what I've read) the Samsung comes with a
low-capacity 'starter' toner cartrige, so you can expect to replace it
sooner.

Lotsa Luck,

Yassir

 

[Nick]

Also (according to what I've read) the Samsung comes with a
low-capacity 'starter' toner cartrige, so you can expect to replace it
sooner.

Correct the Samsung comes with a 1000 page toner - Simply do the 3000 one
for £45 inc vat and post free at the moment - I may be wrong but only the
1750 comes with usb and parallel connection

 

[Fred]

As an aside: Use another search engine, at least when you want to see
adverts (you do in this case). Google used to be far better than the
competition, but the gap has closed considerably. Monopolies are bad
and supporting diversity in this case isn't painful at all.

<On soap box>

OT I know but I find google is largely becoming a collection of adverts with
the highest paying at the top of the hit-list.

Even sites where you have to pay are being listed - where you have to pay to
see the information which has been submitted to Google or which Google has
somehow found.

There are lots of techniques of increasing hit rates, one example is because
the IP addresses Google used are known by some. The website seen by Google
isn't necessarily the one seen by the rest of us!

<Off soap box>

 

[GB]

Correct the Samsung comes with a 1000 page toner - Simply do the 3000 one
for £45 inc vat and post free at the moment - I may be wrong but only the
1750 comes with usb and parallel connection

The samsung cartridges are very easy to refill. Just take the plastic plug
out of the side, pour in the toner, put back the plug, dust yourself off
etc. Replacement toner is only about 21 Pounds for 3 lots (7 Pounds each) at
consumablecafe. That includes postage. I reckon that after 3 refills the
cartridge will be pretty much worn out.

 

[Lem]

<On soap box>

OT I know but I find google is largely becoming a collection
of adverts with the highest paying at the top of the hit-list.

Even sites where you have to pay are being listed - where you
have to pay to see the information which has been submitted to
Google or which Google has somehow found.

There are lots of techniques of increasing hit rates, one
example is because the IP addresses Google used are known by
some. The website seen by Google isn't necessarily the one
seen by the rest of us!

<Off soap box>

I also get the impression that Google is tracking me. If I type in
"scan" then I get Scan Computers in the UK at the top of the list.
I reckon there must be hyundreds of other "scans" I should also
have seen (like MRI scan, like radio scanners, etc).

 

[Dorothy Bradbury]

Another benefit of the Samsung:
o Several use Toners with just a bung to plug the filler
---- ML-1210 is one of those for certain
o You can simply undo the bung & pour in fresh toner
---- obviously you only want toner inside, not on carpet

Some come with only half-filled cartridges, and so can be
easily & cheaply refilled. If you really want a cheaper laser:
o LJ-4P or LJ4
o Perhaps last of the cheaper-end, solidly made, HP printers
o Consumables as common as nitrogen

You can buy service kits for the old LJ printers cheaply.
Not difficult to clean them, re pickup rollers, and such so even
a very old item can still give a very very long life. 4MV for A3.

 

[Rob Morley]

I also get the impression that Google is tracking me. If I type in
"scan" then I get Scan Computers in the UK at the top of the list.
I reckon there must be hyundreds of other "scans" I should also
have seen (like MRI scan, like radio scanners, etc).

But presumably Scan Computers are the only people who pay to be at the
top of the list.

 

[Tim Auton]

But presumably Scan Computers are the only people who pay to be at the
top of the list.

Pay whom?


Tim

 

[Tim Auton]

I also get the impression that Google is tracking me. If I type in
"scan" then I get Scan Computers in the UK at the top of the list.
I reckon there must be hyundreds of other "scans" I should also
have seen (like MRI scan, like radio scanners, etc).

Try a search engine you don't use much. I bet it comes first or nearly
first there too.


Tim

 

[Tx2]

Pay whom?

Google, i would imagine ...

 

[Lem]

But presumably Scan Computers are the only people who pay to
be at the top of the list.

I am talking about what I believe to be the unpaid results. Not
those at the top on a coloured abckground nor those on the right.

 

[CBFalconer]

I Googled and saw that the Samsung ML 1750 comes with a cartridge
that has an expected life of 1000 pages (replacement cartridges
can expect 3000 pages). What is the cost of a new cartridge?

I see nothing OT about this for a.c.h. I DO see excessive
crossposting, with failure by the OP to set followups. Also
failure to retain attributions by someone.

I have been using a Samsung ML4500B for several years. Its
original cost wash USD 199. Toner cartridges cost about USD 60.
I am still on the first replacement cartridge. I use it combined
with fineprint <http://fineprint.com> for extremely cheap
printing. Don't even consider an inkjet for B&W printing - the
lasers are trouble free in comparison (I have had zero
difficulties). I believe all Samsung laser primters use the same
cartridge. This one came with drivers for Windoze and Linux and a
parallel port interface.