[PLUG-TALK] Color Printers
Pete Lancashire
xyzzypdx at gmail.com
Wed Jun 30 23:30:22 UTC 2010
cool find. all the negatives I've read are speed, only 125 pages ... like duh
it is a home printer not an office printer !
now keep yours eyes open on ebay and Craigslist for toner, i've done very
well buying NIB, just watch for shipping costs on ebay. last year for my
good old 5MP via Craigslist I got 4 NIB real HP cartridges for $50.
-pete
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:35 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Pete Lancashire wrote:
>
>> but the idea of a colour laser is intriguing. time for wax warm-up,
>> etc vs cents per page due to toner costs
>
> Pete,
>
> Well, ... I just looked on craigslist.com and found a HP Color LaserJet
> 2550L for $50 (in Camas). According to openprinting.org it's fully supported
> (of course!). This is the 'home' version of the 2550 so it's slow (4ppm for
> color, which is about what my LJ5 does with the duplexer installed), but I'm
> not in a hurry and it handles legal as well as letter paper. It also has
> room for 'only' 125 sheets of paper, but that's adequate for me, too.
>
> So I wrote the person selling it and told him I'll drive over tomorrow and
> pick it up. No drying ink cartridges, and despite the cost of the color
> stuff, for my infrequent use, it will be fine.
>
> Quite a few color laser printers locally on craigslist.
>
> Rich
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