Ian Jordan wrote: > Would you rather pay $150 for the printer and $30 for ink carts, or > $350 for the printer and $8 for ink? I'd buy a $600 and more printer assuming that they can prove that they will have supplies for 5 years and that the total cost per page is reasonable. If you compute the cost per page for one of those 'cheap' printers, and account for bad pages due to various causes, dirty pages, jammed pages, and not-loaded pages you will end up with some really ugly numbers imho. Numbers that will likely make you buy something good next time, even if it costs double. Especially if you use it for work or if your clients see what you print. And brand names don't seem to mean anything anymore. Me I have my eyes on an old clunker Brother laser printer that does 300dpi^2 and weighs about a ton. It is an old refurbished unit a friend is selling and I think I'll get it, for PCB and cabinet related work @home. I'd expect it to last 5 more years with expert service. If anyone would be selling something that solid now I'd try to buy it, but all you get is plastic, plastic, plastic. I think that the only plastic part on that Brother is the ink in the trade name on the box ;-). Peter -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics