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We need to buy a printer that will actually be used mostly as a copier, offline.
We were looking at the all-in-one printers, both laser and inkjet. Production needed would be about 450 pages/month.
All black and white is fine so a laser seems economical but they're so heavy! (Weight is an issue -- we want something we can pull out of a closet to use once/week).
But the main question is, we're getting the idea that while a printer may say it has 18 pages per minute... that is measured when printing from a computer. When it's used as a stand-alone copier, the start up time and speed/page may become unacceptable! When we need it, we can't afford the time to sit around waiting on a turtle.
How do we determine whether we'll get the performance and speed from a printer when it's used as a copier instead of printing from a computer? Or is anyone using a printer in this manner?
Any advice?
Thanks very much!
p.s. Other constraints: We need to stay under the $200 U.S. range, and that would preferably include around 4000 copies worth of ink or toner over the space of a year. And that's the lifetime we need to plan for.
We were looking at the all-in-one printers, both laser and inkjet. Production needed would be about 450 pages/month.
All black and white is fine so a laser seems economical but they're so heavy! (Weight is an issue -- we want something we can pull out of a closet to use once/week).
But the main question is, we're getting the idea that while a printer may say it has 18 pages per minute... that is measured when printing from a computer. When it's used as a stand-alone copier, the start up time and speed/page may become unacceptable! When we need it, we can't afford the time to sit around waiting on a turtle.
How do we determine whether we'll get the performance and speed from a printer when it's used as a copier instead of printing from a computer? Or is anyone using a printer in this manner?
Any advice?
Thanks very much!
p.s. Other constraints: We need to stay under the $200 U.S. range, and that would preferably include around 4000 copies worth of ink or toner over the space of a year. And that's the lifetime we need to plan for.