Looking for a Color Laser (cheap)...

[Joe Peach]

Staples will have the Minolta (QMS?) 2300W on sale Sunday 3/14/04 for
$479...NO REBATE!!!!!!

It's has good reviews & considering the price, outstanding! Remember the
toner cartridges are "starters" only good for 1500 pages.....the regular
ones do 5000+.......but..........even if you need a black printing laser
(not the fastest, but 16 ppm) (no slouch)......It's a Great investment!

Small Churches, fundraisers, beginning desktop
publishers.....etc..........check it out!


Joe

 

[9100DN OWNER]

It is very bad value even at a cost of zero.

Do the numbers after 2 years and say 24,000 sides and put the other
consumables into the equation it needs drums and a fuser.
It is still dearer than a Kyocera fs-5016c

 

[Markeau]

Supposedly on the 2300 series the transfer belt and fuser are built
for the life of the printer and the drum (45K pages) is $130US

 

[Peter]

Supposedly on the 2300 series the transfer belt and fuser are built
for the life of the printer and the drum (45K pages) is $130US

The OPC drum is built for 45,000 images not pages.

As the 2300 is a 4 pass printer 1 page may consist of 4 images, 1 image for
cyan, 1 image for magenta, 1 image for yellow and 1 image for black.
Effectively cutting the life down to 11,250 pages.

You would only get 45,000 pages if printing using black only.

Peter

http://www.printerbase.co.uk

 

[Elmo P. Shagnasty]

Supposedly on the 2300 series the transfer belt and fuser are built
for the life of the printer

Do they tell you what the life of the printer is expected to be?

I think what they mean is "when the transfer belt and/or fuser is dead,
you dump the printer." Problem solved, and they didn't lie to you.

Don't read into the marketing materials the things you want to be.
Marketing materials are written very carefully to say what THEY want to
say, and to leave impressions THEY want to leave--without actually
lying. "Life of the printer"--yeah, I have a 12 year old Apple LW II
body that's still going strong. Do you think that modern laser printers
are built like that? No, not at all. So take "life of the printer" for
what they really mean.

 

[Tim Kiddle]

It is worth having a look at the output from color lasers, if you can,
before buying. I recently took some documents for test printing on a
Minolta 2300W and on an Epson C900, which uses the same print engine. The
outputs were very different. The 3200W has a very shiny output, which is
good for photos, but I don't like it for text. I have seen very little
mention of 'shiny' output from color lasers, in reviews.

Tim

 

[Tom Ruben]

It is worth having a look at the output from color lasers, if you can,
before buying. I recently took some documents for test printing on a
Minolta 2300W and on an Epson C900, which uses the same print engine. The
outputs were very different. The 3200W has a very shiny output, which is
good for photos, but I don't like it for text. I have seen very little
mention of 'shiny' output from color lasers, in reviews.

Tim

Reviews in the current edition (i.e. May, this being March!) of the UK
Computer Shopper discuss this point.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/labs_index.php