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Post by Angelstardust on Jun 15, 2009 11:15:18 GMT
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Post by kubik8 on Jun 16, 2009 0:13:06 GMT
Got a fair amount of experience of Canon printers, but not much about this particular model. I'd have no worries about build quality/longevity regarding the unit itself.
It's a good device for what it is, but it's a home/SOHO product, having just a single 150 sheet tray, and 4ppm colour output (yes I know it says 8ppm, but realistically...)
Giving opinions on printers is more about understanding usage than the device itself. What do you mean by 'one of my groups'? Does that mean it's intended as a workgroup printer?
If so, it isn't suitable. The link you gave is for the USB only model, and unless you are attaching it to a network print server, it's really best suited to a single PC.
Very good price but running costs are high.
I'd say it's squarely aimed at someone running a small business from home, who needs to print out a few invoices per day or whatever.
But it's difficult to give an opinion without knowledge of volume of users/output.
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Post by Angelstardust on Jun 16, 2009 8:37:25 GMT
Volume would be paperwork for a voluntary organisation; minutes and agendas and newsletter once a month, plus any other odds and sods.
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Post by mikkh on Jun 16, 2009 9:42:00 GMT
www.trustedreviews.com/printers/review/2009/01/09/Canon-i-SENSYS-LBP5050-Colour-Laser/p2
With a claimed 1500 sheets for each refill, It depends on how many newsletters you need to produce - which would be the bulk of your printing I should imagine. A normal inkjet should do 100-300 sheets (depending on model) so if that would cover a normal run of newsletters without changing cartridges, I'd be tempted to do that instead to keep running costs down.
A few dozen sheets on an inkjet shouldn't be too painful (time wise), but if you're approaching a three figure number, a laser would save you quite a lot of time.
Quality wise there isn't much to choose between a laser and an inkjet nowadays. There was a time when lasers were far superior, but that doesn't apply anymore IMO. The only other consideration is amount of use. Lasers are designed to do bulk printing and inkjets aren't, but they mostly cope quite well
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Post by kubik8 on Jun 16, 2009 12:38:43 GMT
Volume would be paperwork for a voluntary organisation; minutes and agendas and newsletter once a month, plus any other odds and sods. That's what you're printing, not the volume, but never mind. But, hazarding a guess, it sounds suitable for the role. Looks like you're doing fairly low-volume stuff, and £100 is a very good price for the model. As always with printers though, it's the running costs that are important, not the outlay of buying the machine. If your grant pays for the toner then maybe it's unimportant to you, but personally I'd baulk at paying over £50 for black toner (it would seem you don't do much colour printing so will rarely be replacing colour toner) for a printer in that class. I'd favour something like this Xerox, as the toner carts are rated at 2000 pages and can be found for less than £50. Slower than the Canon though, if speed is important to you. www.dabs.com/products/xerox-6110v_b-colour-laser-printer---32mb-memory-4G31.html?q=colour%20laser%20printer *edit* I hadn't noticed the £100 Canon was exclusive of VAT, but still not a bad price. |
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Post by Angelstardust on Jun 16, 2009 16:15:56 GMT
thanks for that. Newsletters (illustrated) are about 50 per month, plus paperwork for 10 committee officers (20 sheets) plus promotional material, which would be the bulk of any colour work.
Tell the truth, I'm fed up of inkjet (or maybe it's just Epson) and at that price it's a good option, especially as the grant covers toner.
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Post by kubik8 on Jun 16, 2009 16:53:33 GMT
Don't blame you for one moment. In your position, I'd go for a laser printer too.
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Post by martytoo on Jun 22, 2009 19:32:34 GMT
Looks quite good, 1 possible drawback when printing lots of stuff if either the amount of black runs too low or one colour runs out you have to replace the whole cartridge unit because it doesn't have individual ink cartridges unlike some more expensive models.
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Post by kubik8 on Jun 22, 2009 20:22:09 GMT
Looks quite good, 1 possible drawback when printing lots of stuff if either the amount of black runs too low or one colour runs out you have to replace the whole cartridge unit because it doesn't have individual ink cartridges unlike some more expensive models. Eh? It doesn't have ink carts at all, it's a laser. It has separate carts for cyan/magenta/yellow/black www.trustedreviews.com/printers/review/2009/01/09/Canon-i-SENSYS-LBP5050-Colour-Laser/p1 |
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Post by Angelstardust on Aug 8, 2009 12:35:40 GMT
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Post by ken on Aug 8, 2009 19:52:29 GMT
From what I've heard, Samsung are good printers. You have to use their toner though, cheap stuff wont work.
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Post by Angelstardust on Aug 8, 2009 20:27:13 GMT
Their toner as listed is almost as cheap as the other stuff anyway.
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Post by nike on Aug 9, 2009 5:05:52 GMT
I have a Samsung CLP300, the model before the one you are looking at.
It prints colour perfectly, as long as you use only the genuine cartridges. I have generics in the thing now, and they just don't work right.
The genuine cartridges are three times the price of the generics, and cost more than the printer cost initially.
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Post by ken on Aug 9, 2009 5:28:39 GMT
I was looking for your post in NHI Kev, but I couldn't find it to see what model you had. I dont know if toner is cheaper over here, but usually Oz prices are better than ours for anything computer related. In fact I think Oz prices are getting better than the States at the moment. I never look at toner prices, my ink jet with CISS does all I want.
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Post by Angelstardust on Aug 9, 2009 8:47:46 GMT
I looked up the prices for this one and a full set of four toner colours is roughly the same price as the printer. I won't be paying for all of the toner anyway.
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