fax machines and printers

[Parrot of Doom]

2 questions.

1) Does anybody use faxes any more? I haven't, not for ages. So is it worth getting one on a multifunction printer?

2) Whats a good printer/scanner to buy? One that won't produce crappy streaky rubbish prints like my current HP OJ7100? I am sick to the back teeth of buying printers that for one reason or another don't do the job.

I just want a printer that prints, reliably, in colour, for invoices and letters. Thats it. It shouldn't break after 12 months, and the cartridges shouldn't cost the GDP of Wales.

[Plotloss]

I use a fax to email service for inbound faxing, dont bother with outbound.

IMHO you're better off with a £20 scanner (which can outbound fax if you have a modem) and a decent colour laser.

Edited by Plotloss on Tuesday 27th June 19:03

[cavanagh]

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[Parrot of Doom]

Hmmmm, didn't even know you could get colour lasers.

I have a scanner tucked away somewhere anyway.

Whats a good colour laser that I could get? Don't mind second hand so long as it works!

[Plotloss]

Something like this perhaps

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Lexmark-C522-Co

My personal preference for printers is HP or Lexmark.

[Parrot of Doom]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dl

Thats just 30 minutes down the road from me, are they any good? It will only be used for invoices and letters, no fancy shiny photographs.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-3000CN-Col

That looks ok as well.

[Plotloss]

The top one is a 4 pass printer, so it will do each colour in turn, effectively printing 4 imprints on one piece of paper to get the full colour spectrum. Obviously if your logo is 100% Cyan Yellow or Magenta then its a single pass plus the black.

I did look at that Dell one, resolution is 600dpi but it doesnt seem like a bad box.

[Parrot of Doom]

Do they print ok on special paper? I have Iridescent paper for my invoices and letters, which is a bit expensive and fancy but I think it pays to present stuff nicely

[Plotloss]

Parrot of Doom said:

Do they print ok on special paper? I have Iridescent paper for my invoices and letters, which is a bit expensive and fancy but I think it pays to present stuff nicely

Dunno about that.

Have been speaking to some printers recently about digital printing and some cant do it onto Conqueror CX22 which is my preferred choice of stock.

I've had a look at that iridescent stuff and you can laser in black onto it presumably but I really dont know enough to say one way or the other for sure.

[dcw@pr]

we have a lexmark c510, which seems to work very well (its a colour laser). I think it cost us about £350 18 months ago. one problem we have with it though is that one of the rollers seems to be causing a bit of streaking, how can I get it cleaned?

[Parrot of Doom]

I'm gonna go for the HP, even though my current printer (OJ7100) is a HP and is printing very badly.

I could probably sort it with new heads, but they're too expensive to risk it being another problem altogether.