I need a new printer

[me again]

Ok I need a new printer and the old ink jet printers are not up to the job far to expensive to run and need replaceing every year !

Which Laser printer would you recomend ?
I need to be able to print colour brouchers , cerfificates documents and photos.
I need to take into account

Running cost
Replacement Cartridges
Purchase price
life of the printer
different thinkness of paper/card
I cant have a stand alone printer (a big one) as I dont have the room
Double side printing ( not essentual)
only need A4 and smaller
A bonus would be a built in scannner coppier

Cheers

Mark

[sandmaster]

I think you will need to stay with ink jet.
We have colour laser in the office. Unable to cope with photo quality and it is very expensive regarding ink.
I have had HP, Epson and Canon and I found the latter the better of the three.
Whichever make you choose, though, get the model with the most ink cartridges. Some will only take 3 plus black. Others 5 plus black.

[fo3nix]

HP and Brother are always well recommended for laser printers. Samsung good for a cheaper price too.

Colour lasers used to be very expensive. They've come down a lot, but the really good ones are still very expensive compared to their B&W counterparts.

[sandmaster]

If you need colour brochures you will probably find a printer (as in a man who will do it for you, rather than a machine sitting in your house) will be more cost effective, depending on the quantity you need. Set up costs are high but run ons can be very cheap.

[alanlad]

if photos are important to you i would not go for the laser printer, as quality is far less than with inkjet. if you only want to go up as far as a4 size the canon ip4300 i can thouroughly reccommend

[rojash]

I have an Epson Photo R200 (6 ink) inkjet and a Samsung CLP300 laser. I much prefer the quality of the photos from the laser, which is also reliable, prints on a wide range of media, and much cheaper to run than the Epson. The lastest incarnation of this printer is the CLP310.

[tinkie]

I agree with alanlad, I do a lot of printing and have the canon ip4300 I bought it new on ebay for less than the price of a new set of cartridges and it was delivered the next day. It has 5 cartridges

[me again]

Thank you for all your replies

I would like to come away from the ink jet style printer as I seem to have nothing but problems with all the ones I have had in the passed

The idea of subbing out the brouchers is a good one but not possible, the bouchers change an a regular basis so to print a stock off would be pointless and wastful.

I have to say I always thought that the laser printers were supposed to be a quicker, better quality and cheaper to run than the inkjet ! is this wrong ?

At the moment I have a epsom cx4000 and it takes 10-12 minutes to print a broucher of ten pages and I get around 8 brouchers to each set of cartridges (mainly the blue one)

I have found that cheap copy replacment cartridges are no where near as good print quality as the genuine cartridges .