Recommend me a laser printer

[sccbishop]

Looking to get a laser printer at the weekend, nothing too flash, just something basic that prints decent quality.

Is there much difference in price between colour and B&W? How much am I looking to pay?

Thanks.

[size13]

B&W - Samsung ML 1510
Colour - loads for < £300 now

look at dabs.com

[FourWheelDrift]

I've heard colour laser printers are worth the money for the outpu, better to get a B&W laser & colour inkjet. Sure I read it on here somewhere.

PS. How do you set a laser printer to stun?

[size13]

FourWheelDrift said:

PS. How do you set a laser printer to stun?

?? eh

[size13]

size13 said:

FourWheelDrift said: PS. How do you set a laser printer to stun? ?? eh

OK, OK I'm a bit slow this morning - I get it now

[dontlift]

I have an HP Laserjet 2100 doing nothing if you are interested?

[sccbishop]

May well be - how old? How big? How much? etc..

[fish]

HP 1300s are nice with quick warm up

[beano500]

size13 said:

B&W - Samsung ML 1510

or the 1710 - got it for the home office. Cheap as chips - probably cheaper to throw away and replace when the toner's used up

[bga]

beano500 said:

size13 said: B&W - Samsung ML 1510 or the 1710 - got it for the home office. Cheap as chips - probably cheaper to throw away and replace when the toner's used up

When I got my 1510 from PC world the guy in there said all the branches used them because they were cheap, tough and more virtually sales buffon proof (his exact words). Done thousands of pages of plain text & B&W graphics on mine and it's great.

[size13]

And they're smaller than HP offerings

[JonRB]

I had a LaserJet IIIp for years that never missed a beat, although at 4ppm was a bit slow.

The only reason I stopped using it is that when we moved house a couple of years ago the optional sheet feeder wouldn't work with it anymore for some reason. It's up in the loft now.

Anway, point is that some of the older laser printers are real workhorses and can still give good service.

[beano500]

True - in 1990 I managed to get hold of an IBM 4019e that sort of fell off the back of a factory. Only chucked it out last year!

[.Mark]

My Kyocera has just packed up after 10 years faultless service. I say packed up,it still prints it's just that you have to power cycle it between pages.

I'll not have any other make. I did look at the Samsung ones in PC world but they didn't do it for me, didn't feel very robust - and one of them had a well dodgy blue front panel!

[size13]

.Mark said:

and one of them had a well dodgy blue front panel!

That'll be the 1510, the 1710 is grey.

The paper tray, being underneath makes it look smarter than the cheap HP, with the paper vertically above it.

[.Mark]

So would this Samsung be a good alternative to the Kyocera?
What about toner/drum costs etc?