Cheap duplexing colour lasers again

[ffutures]

Another Xerox networking colour laser printer offer from Misco, this time definitely duplexing

Phaser 6180DN - £199.99 ex VAT (£234.99 inc VAT)

Only 600 DPI, which seems a bit strange, but maybe useful if you can work with that.

http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=267983&CatId=1313

Comments

[lawbag.livejournal.com]

Seems to only mention 600 dpi for B&W and no mention of colour.

To be honest I have no experience of Xerox.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Probably 600 DPI but you need multiple dots for most colours with laser so it's never quite that simple.

The 6100 DN I use has been pretty reliable so far, but I have no idea how this one compares.

[lawbag.livejournal.com]

Which ever way you look at it, its incredibly cheap.

The company I used to work for bought a HP 4500 colour laser printer for £3,000 back in 1998. Impressive, and it still works to this day. The duplex unit cost about £800.

What was odd was the paper tray that came with the unit could only handle about 50 sheets, so if you were on a print run, you spent your entire day feeding the damn thing.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

If it's like the 6100 the printer itself is a loss leader, with the real profit in the consumables. Also, it's probably not the latest model and may be slower, lower resolution and noisier than a really recent one.

[lawbag.livejournal.com]

you open the guts of any modern printer and remove the consumables, and all you are left with is a pathetic empty shell.

considering for 200 plus VAT a year ago you could barely buy a black and white laser printer.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

My first laser was more like 1000 quid; back in the days when many of them needed a special card I splurged on a fairly advanced 300 DPI Fujitsu postscript printer. Lasted me ages, but in the end I had to buy another - which cost about 200 quid, and the one after that was another mono printer that cost 100. These days you can get colour for the same amount, it's the duplexing and network part that are expensive.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Sorry, make that the duplexing - there's a sub-£100 network colour laser in Morgans' flyer.