Inkjet vs Laser for the seldom print job

[linksep]

And my point was that I've never seen a waste toner bottle in a home or workgroup printer, but to say that "office [laser printers do not have waste-toner bottles] anymore... [that is a relic from 30-ish years ago]. Are you from the 80's?" is flat out incorrect information given to a person asking an honest question in regards to potentially ill-informed but well-meaning advise from another BITOG member. The waste-toner bottle on our $25,000+ Oce` over-flowed and the technician commented that it was good that it was caught immediately - our $200 service call could have been $2,500 if it was not caught as early as it was.

Yes, in fact larger office printers do still have waste toner bottles. Our old SHARP, Lanier, and Oce` laser printers at work all had/have waste toner bottles, and the new Konica replacements for the SHARP (~$16,000) and Lanier (~$8,000) both have waste toner bottles. I would call those "larger office units" as they are rated to print 125,000 pages per month for the smaller unit and 300,000 pages per month for the larger unit.

 

[Andrew1972]

I purchased an all-in-one(scan, copy,print) Brother Laser for $85. It prints, the pictures look dreadful BW but for my purposes it works! I hope you folks are right on it lasting better.

The best part is Apple printer or whatever it is works off my wife's iPad mini so she is elated. She does not like opening computers.

 

[Subdued]

Originally Posted By: linksep
And my point was that I've never seen a waste toner bottle in a home or workgroup printer, but to say that "office [laser printers do not have waste-toner bottles] anymore... [that is a relic from 30-ish years ago]. Are you from the 80's?" is flat out incorrect information given to a person asking an honest question in regards to potentially ill-informed but well-meaning advise from another BITOG member. The waste-toner bottle on our $25,000+ Oce` over-flowed and the technician commented that it was good that it was caught immediately - our $200 service call could have been $2,500 if it was not caught as early as it was.

Yes, in fact larger office printers do still have waste toner bottles. Our old SHARP, Lanier, and Oce` laser printers at work all had/have waste toner bottles, and the new Konica replacements for the SHARP (~$16,000) and Lanier (~$8,000) both have waste toner bottles. I would call those "larger office units" as they are rated to print 125,000 pages per month for the smaller unit and 300,000 pages per month for the larger unit.

You're arguing semantics and my point stands that his post has nothing to do with this thread, was not helpful, and could actually muddy the waters for people who might be wondering if their little personal printer has a waste toner tank.

Yes large office printers have waste toner tanks. Workgroup class printers on down do not. I misspoke.

Happy?

 

[Kawiguy454]

I have a canon pixma inkjet for a few years now. Things to know are that almost all new inkjets included cartridges are not full capacity. Hp's are like 5ml when refills are 20ml or 60ml.

That said i bought a refill kit online with new ink tanks that have rubber stoppers on top for easy filling and electronic chips in each that reset each time you fill the tanks. The printer always prints and hasn't dried out once with months between printing.

If you're gonna buy a new printer do some research as there are some inherently BAD models both inkjet and laser.