×
The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.
On 1/3/13 1:21 PM, Tom Hightower wrote:
We have a few HP Color LaserJet CP3505n printers. They're ok, but we're
feeling their age. We use them for printing our invoices + envelopes from
the System i (with logos, etc), plus various other office printings.
We normally print around 100 pages a day, with about 40 envelopes.
Occasionally (once or twice a year) we'll go crazy and print a few thousand
pages (for conferences and such).
Any recommendations on replacement printers?
Dunno what it would take to drive them from a midrange system, but I'm
very impressed with Samsung's color laser printers. I've used my own
little "inkjet killer" CLP-315 for everything from general printing to
my annual run of Christmas cards since sometime in 2010, and while it
takes a bit of tweaking to get magazine-quality pictures out of it, it
has, nonetheless, exceeded expectations in terms of speed, economy, and
durability. Not to mention being no noisier than a B&W laser. (I think
it's because Samsung, unlike HP, Canon, and Epson, doesn't have a huge
number of inkjet patents to keep profitable, and so it has no reason not
to compete directly with the inkjet market.)
And I believe they do make heavier-duty machines. Although I have no
direct experience with them.
About a year before I got the Samsung, I bought a color laser (I don't
remember whether it was HP or Xerox) that was supposedly a PostScript
machine, intending it to replace both my aging HP 2100M and my
almost-worn-out Alps MicroDry. In addition to being both bulkier and
noisier than expected (which I suppose I could have lived with), it
couldn't accept a PS data stream out of Xerox Ventura Publisher (DOS/GEM
Edition), which was an absolute non-negotiable requirement for anything
that would replace the 2100M. It went back to Staples less than 24 hours
after it was delivered.
Regarding HP, near as I can tell, I think they stopped making good
products over a decade ago: I don't think I've seen a single one of
their products that was introduced in this century, that wasn't
overpriced junk.
--
JHHL
midrange.com
