armandjones82 said:
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Hi. i know most of you have an experience in buying and owning printers.
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Hi back. Finally, a thread that I know something about! [hold the comments, guys!] I started the first "toner cartridge recharging" company in my town (and a surrounding 5 county area) in NC in 1990. I quickly progressed to servicing all brands of LASER printers and copiers. I even bought up a small "old school" office machines & supplies company with a highly respected customer base (including the local gov't.) I know more than "a bit" about printers and copiers (including nearly every model/type commented on so far.) Please... don't buy until you've heard me out.
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I really have different kinds of demands but I have not yet decided what kind of printer(s) to buy. .. i want to print pictures and ebooks..
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Before the invasion of the "office clearing houses for cheap Chinese junk" took over, the office machines industry and market was driven my American made equipment that did one thing... and did it WELL! The "all-in-ones" have been a cheap compromise for the average individual, providing less than laser quality text/graphics... and less than Kodak quality photo prints. (are we talking photo quality prints... or color representations on paper with a color cartridge with little holes to create colored "dots" that, when seen from a distance on the refrigerator,
TEND to look like a picture?)
The cheap costs of powdered toner used in early laserprinters like the HP Series II, III, and related models... gave way to the
HIGH cost of liquid ink cartridge(s) necessary for the "dual role" of
color and B/W
graphics printing ... MADE NECESSARY by the "digitization" of media input.
What I'm saying is... the
VOLUME of B/W pages created by printing E-books (kinda goes against the idea of them, eh?) demands the low cost and "workhorse" nature of a pure laser printer (there ARE some very small ones)... but... do you want it in the truck? Or, at home?
On the other hand... if you want to reproduce (or print) quality "reprints" of a picture or negative (or digital inputed image) you need the "photo quality" of a picture type printer like the Kodak.
I suggest you seriously consider buying two separate machines, both probably low cost by now, and getting the best of both "needs."
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Please suggest one that fits $100-$200 budget
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IF you can only afford to spend less than 2 bills for something so important to your life, then... I would wait a bit till you're making more money as a trucker. But... if you only want to SPEND that much... then, I say buy a good (but cheap) Kodak photo printer, and spend the rest of the money on (maybe a USED) small H/P Laserjet 6L. [This is a GOOD printer with low toner costs that should handle your e-book requirement.]
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I would not mind spending much for the printer if it wont require me to buy expensive printer ink for it..
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There you have it. Spend the money on the photo printer, and then spend a decent amount on a laserprinter for the texting of the e-books. (Or take your negatives or flashcard to a local walmart or pharmacy.... and print the ones you want)... and spend about one bill on a used laserprinter and cartridge.
If you spend less than $200 on an "all in one" machine... you will double that cost in printer ink before the cheap POS breaks DOWN!
I got more if you wanna KNOW more.
