Re: Laser printer advice

If your work is 99% b&w then your question is almost answered...
consider the extra cost just for the 1% of work, the prices for laser
toners aren't exactly cheap and there's more than one to replace.

I am on my 2nd mono Samsung laser, the first one a ML1510 had been
refilled and refilled till the drum gave up... this produced PCB circuit
design as well as text so it did have some 'clobber' and refilling was
like 'shelling peas'.

The replacement is a ML3050... and in both cases the price of the toner
is about as much as a new printer especially the ML1510, how easy this
will be to refill I can't say but if you want a refilling idea to see
which is the easiest have a peep at 'Refill toner UK | Toner refill your
empty laser printer cartridge | U Refill Toner Ltd.'
(http://www.refilltoner.com/) also gives you insight how it's all done.

davy

Don't forget, too, that unless you've got a laser printer that
incorporates the drum inside the toner cartridge, at some point, you're
going to face the cost of a new drum. This can be a very ample expense.
For example, the drum in an ordinary Brother laser printer that I bought
runs about $135; the drum in my Okidata LED printer goes around $165.
Note that I'm talking street prices here!

Now, is the expense worth it? The answer, amazingly, may actually be
"yes." One thing that worries me about the Brother, even though it's a
fine and fast printer, is the amount of household dust that falls into
the innards through the paper slot (where the paper itself also becomes
nice and dirty). Household dust is abrasive; therefore, I must assume
that such dirt wears down the drum a lot earlier than if the printer
were designed with the paper protected in a chamber (as it is on my
OKI). I bought the Brother used, and just as I thought, I cleaned a
significant amount of dirt out of the thing.

Top-feeders: Yech!!!!!
Who needs this crap engineering?

Richard