Printer recommendations?

[Kyle Harriss]

Because of the per-page printing costs of inkjets, we removed our inkjet
printers from public areas and put networked laserprinters into place.
(We removed Deskjet 600's, and now have 19 library owned, and about 35
computer center-owned PC's printing to a combination of 3 HPLaserjet5M
printers.)

I remember per page estimates of the cost of consumibles for printing,
something like 2 to 2.5 cents per page for laser, and 4 cents per page 
for inkjets using black ink.  That would probably be based on 5% coverage
of the page with ink.  Many web pages produce output that requires far
more ink than that.  So the real costs may be twice as high, or more.

This shifts the economics from cheaper to buy inkjets, towards cheaper to
print laser printers.

--

Kyle Harriss				kharriss at d.umn.edu
Tech Services 				voice: 218-726-6546
UMD Library				fax:   218-726-8019
Duluth, MN  55812

On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, Steve Hooley wrote:

>         We've had trouble with HP Deskjet 680Cs for this kind of use - the
> costly color cartridge primes itself with each reboot, then if no color is
> ever printed, begins to gum up. Eventually the priming operation fails and
> the printer stalls, demanding a new color cartridge before it prints B&W
> again. We've had good luck with 600 and 600C printers - but we've decided to
> get B&W-ONLY printers next time for B&W applications.
> 
> >MVANHOUTEN at PCI.ALBION.EDU writes:
> >>Does anyone have recommendations for printers to attach to library
> >>public (reference) PCs? We are currently using Epson LX-300s, but are
> >>interested in moving to something faster, and better for printing web
> >>pages, full-text articles, etc. Anyone using Deskjets or something
> >similar?
> >>We plan to have a printer with each PC, rather than networking several
> >>PCs to a shared printer. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. 
> >>Thanks!
> >
> >We're using several HP 672Cs at our library, and they're both fast
> >(relatively) and cheap ($200).  They can print in color, or you can set
> >it to gray, to conserve on the costly color cartridge.  Best buy in its
> >class, right now, although there are better printers by this same
> >company.  In my office I use the Epson 400 Color, which is nice but
> >way too slow for public access.
> >
> >Robert J. Tiess
> >Middletown Thrall Library
> >http://www.thrall.org
> >
> >
> >
>  
> *+============================*
> |   Stephen S. Hooley         |  Statesboro Ga
> |    Romulan Technician       |  Home of the
> |    Henderson Library        |  Statesboro 
> |"It's Only a Job Description"|  Blues
> | Georgia Southern University |www2.gasou.edu/facstaff/hooleyss
> +=============================+
>  Back up my hard drive?  How do I put it in reverse?
> 
>