Reliable consumer level colour duplex printers.

Folks

I'm probably going to junk my vritually new HP laser printer as described in my
previous posting. The black cartridge is at 10% and the colour cartridges at 34% so
to heck with spending the money to repair it.

What suggestions would you foilks have amongst the following options conveniently
available to me at a Staples? The criteria are consumer level, colour, duplex.

Brother HL-4040CDN Colour Laser Printer $410
Lexmark C543dn Colour Laser Printer $410
Okidata C5650dn Colour Laser Printer $730
Samsung CLP-610ND Colour Laser Printer $440

I will very grudgingly consider
Hewlett Packard LaserJet CP2025dn Colour Printer $560
but I'm real ticked at HP so that's highly unlikely.

Prices are in CAD.

Tony
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"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote:

Brother HL-4040CDN Colour Laser Printer $410
Lexmark C543dn Colour Laser Printer $410
Okidata C5650dn Colour Laser Printer $730
Samsung CLP-610ND Colour Laser Printer $440

I priced out the toner cartridges. The first price is black, second price is colour.
The 2K, 4K 5K and 6K are the number og pages in the toner cartridges.

Brother HL-4040CDN Colour Laser Printer $410
TN 110 $75 2.5K $85 1.5K TN115 $100 5K $135 4K
Lexmark C543dn Colour Laser Printer $410 $95 $110 2K
Okidata C5650dn Colour Laser Printer $730 $88 6K, $135 5K
Samsung CLP-610ND Colour Laser Printer $440 $90 $94 2K, $120 $135 5K
from www.tonerparts.com

BTW I got the printer model numbers from www.staples.ca by putting in T5K 0L5 for the
postal code.

So it I was to go with the double (or 2.5x) capacity replacement cartridges the
Brother and the Samsung are the best value. Okidata is the higher initial price.

Tony
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Did it not come with at least a one year warranty? Most color laser
printers may be worth buying an add on warranty (or use your credit card
is it has usch a feature) since they are complex, still aren't fully
reliable, and costly to repair, and to meet current pricing are probably
not built to last anyway.

But it may be worthwhile contacting HP and give them the specifics and
see if they have an unwritten warranty, or something.

Art

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Tony Toews [MVP] wrote:
Folks

I'm probably going to junk my vritually new HP laser printer as described in my
previous posting. The black cartridge is at 10% and the colour cartridges at 34% so
to heck with spending the money to repair it.

What suggestions would you foilks have amongst the following options conveniently
available to me at a Staples? The criteria are consumer level, colour, duplex.

Brother HL-4040CDN Colour Laser Printer $410
Lexmark C543dn Colour Laser Printer $410
Okidata C5650dn Colour Laser Printer $730
Samsung CLP-610ND Colour Laser Printer $440

I will very grudgingly consider
Hewlett Packard LaserJet CP2025dn Colour Printer $560
but I'm real ticked at HP so that's highly unlikely.

Prices are in CAD.

Tony

What suggestions would you foilks have amongst the following options
conveniently
available to me at a Staples? The criteria are consumer level, colour,
duplex.

Brother HL-4040CDN Colour Laser Printer $410
Lexmark C543dn Colour Laser Printer $410
Okidata C5650dn Colour Laser Printer $730
Samsung CLP-610ND Colour Laser Printer $440
I will very grudgingly consider
Hewlett Packard LaserJet CP2025dn Colour Printer $560
but I'm real ticked at HP so that's highly unlikely.

I'm interested in the same printers but more on quality output (colour and
text) that on consumer level. Only changing OKI model to the C5950N.

What models are the best?

Thanks
Xavi

Arthur Entlich wrote:

Did it not come with at least a one year warranty? Most color laser
printers may be worth buying an add on warranty (or use your credit card
is it has usch a feature) since they are complex, still aren't fully
reliable, and costly to repair, and to meet current pricing are probably
not built to last anyway.

But it may be worthwhile contacting HP and give them the specifics and
see if they have an unwritten warranty, or something.

I've already been in contact with HP for troubleshooting. It's been out of warranty
for over a year. The fact that I've printed so few pages is not relevant to them.

Tony
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"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message
...
Arthur Entlich wrote:

Did it not come with at least a one year warranty? Most color laser
printers may be worth buying an add on warranty (or use your credit card
is it has usch a feature) since they are complex, still aren't fully
reliable, and costly to repair, and to meet current pricing are probably
not built to last anyway.

But it may be worthwhile contacting HP and give them the specifics and
see if they have an unwritten warranty, or something.

I've already been in contact with HP for troubleshooting. It's been out
of warranty
for over a year. The fact that I've printed so few pages is not relevant
to them.

Tony
--
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Tony's Main MS Access pages - http://www.granite.ab.ca/accsmstr.htm
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It's too bad you contacted them. For $49USD you could have
bought a 1 year post warranty, next day replacement extended
warranty (#UE177PE), or a return to depot 1 year post warranty
agreement for $39 (#HC124PE). Then again, maybe their warranty
claim people don't talk to technical support. Obviously, it costs
them very little to repair a printer.

Link:

http://h30125.www3.hp.com/csn/salesm...ode=ELNL::-USA

"Ian D" wrote:


It's too bad you contacted them. For $49USD you could have
bought a 1 year post warranty, next day replacement extended
warranty (#UE177PE), or a return to depot 1 year post warranty
agreement for $39 (#HC124PE).

Good idea. But it's been 2.5 years.

Tony
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"Tony Toews [MVP]" wrote in message
...
"Ian D" wrote:


It's too bad you contacted them. For $49USD you could have
bought a 1 year post warranty, next day replacement extended
warranty (#UE177PE), or a return to depot 1 year post warranty
agreement for $39 (#HC124PE).

Good idea. But it's been 2.5 years.

Tony
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There's no post warranty time limit specified. As long as a product is on
the list, and has a post warranty plan available, it must be eligible.

"Ian D" wrote:

There's no post warranty time limit specified. As long as a product is on
the list, and has a post warranty plan available, it must be eligible.

Ah, interesting. I'll have to check that out.

Umm, stupid question - so how do I buy those? I'll keep poking about but I don't see
a convenient button labelled "purchase now".

tony
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Tony Toews [MVP] wrote:
Arthur Entlich wrote:

Did it not come with at least a one year warranty? Most color laser
printers may be worth buying an add on warranty (or use your credit card
is it has usch a feature) since they are complex, still aren't fully
reliable, and costly to repair, and to meet current pricing are probably
not built to last anyway.

But it may be worthwhile contacting HP and give them the specifics and
see if they have an unwritten warranty, or something.

I've already been in contact with HP for troubleshooting. It's been out of warranty
for over a year. The fact that I've printed so few pages is not relevant to them.

OK, thanks for that. Sad, but good to know, and not particularly
confidence inspiring. That is the type of information that is useful to
know because it says something about their build quality as well their
attitude to their clients.

No one expects a forever warranty, but when several parts fail after
minimal usage, and when the product has developed a know reputation for
being problematic, good companies stand up and take their hits to
maintain clients and reputation. Any manufacturer can design a bad
product, it is what they chose to do about it that is telling.

Art


Tony