New Lexmark network color laser- $22.15

[mattkime]

Can quality generics be found? Sometimes you can find supplies for a fraction of the going rate.

I'd go for this if i could allow $350 to be in limbo for 6 months but i can't.

[volcs0]

This is a great deal if Nextwarehouse comes through AND you actually get your rebate...

I think I did a $100 rebate once... $350? I'm not adventurous enough...

[elmo3]

[quote LaserKun]I might be a real "Run You Fools"® fool if I ran to get this one, but interestingly, I really need a new printer - and have been looking at color lasers.

I think elmo3 is right, the ink jet cartridges are what makes color printing so expensive. I am going right now to get a new cartridge for one of my ink jets... might just stop by somewhere and check out color lasers again.

pdq, does the 7,000 pages at $160 per cartridge come to about $.04 per page? If so, it sure beats ink jet costs... Unless all the colors ran out at the same time. What I want is a color laser that will print in black even if one or more colors are empty, and I don't think there is such a thing...
Yes, there is, at least close enough. Currently my yellow toner is low, "replace soon," and it happily prints K only all day long. The key is never to let the toners go completely out, and to make sure you're printing using K only. If you have to, run your first set of toners almost all the way out, then replace them and hang onto them. When you need to do a bunch of K only printing and you're out of other inks, stick the original toner carts back in so the controller shuts up and prints.

Do the math. 160 per cart, 4 carts, that's $640, or 64,000 cents. If the yield is 7000 pages, then it's 64,000 cents per 7,000 pages or--doing the math--9.14 cents/page.

At the specified coverage.

If you want to do a flat rate per page, covering all ink and parts and service calls, you'll have to pony up a bit more for a Xerox color copier or similar. Still and all, who'da thunk it 20 years ago that you could spend under $10K and get 12x18 full color printing at a straight 9 or so cents per page for everything? I remember a friend buying a LaserWriter II NTX for, how much? $6K? Something like that.

[jimmy d]

Give away the printer and sell the supplies necessary to make it useful. Will this strategy work?

Just ask the Gillette company.

[onthedownlow]

I purchased three of these last year for around $250 a pop...a steal back even then. Very nice printers, you will not be disappointed.

I have found toner for as little as $118...but it is usually in the $135-$160 range, as some of you have seen.

[Sam3]

All the inkjet companies have successfully followed Gillette's lead.

[reezekeys]

OK, here's a stoopid question: do these printers come with any kind of carts, even starter carts? (I think I know the answer, but honestly, I found no mention either way after googling for a while).

I already have a black & white laser (a Samsung I got for around $20 on another rebate deal!), but my wife will be needing to create brochures for her business. This looks like a steal, but I'm not sure I can afford another ~$500 for carts, even if I could afford to wait a few months for the rebate.

[reezekeys]

Here's how stupid that last question was: the answer was in the original product description on the Next Warehouse site! YES, 6K yield carts are included. This is a great find!

[pdq]

Having started this thread, I feel semi-responsible if someone rushes out and gets screwed, if for whatever reason, they don't honor the $350 rebate.

I mean, I was tempted, and I'm not really even in the market for the product. Will Lexmark _really_ sell a networkable color laser printer for $22? I dunno- maybe.

Danger, Will Robinson!

[volcs0]

Discussion over at FW.

http://www.fatwallet.com/t/18/719943/


I'm out.