I've been using a brother 5250DN for about a year now and love it. 
Built in duplex, built in ethernet networking, 30 ppm and 1200 dpi 
printing.  I mostly use 600 dpi though.  I do a lot of printing and it 
has not had a glitch yet.  Works perfectly with linux and I get 7000 
page toner cartriges for $40 including shipping.  The printer cost me 
$200 brand new from amazon.com with free shipping.

I've been using laser for a number of years now and would never look 
back.  Inkjet costs far more to run and I had many more problems with them.

Moses

Apptech wrote:
>> Re: [OT] It is the time to buy laser printer and dump the 
>> inkjets
> 
> Not for me it isn't.
> 
>> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>>
>>> Laser Printers from HP/Canon and even Fuji Xerox are of 
>>> similar price
>>> range. Maybe it is the time to dump the inkjets.
>> Definitely it is,
> 
> For many values of definitely
> If you REALLY want to reduce inkjet costs and increase 
> convenience and do large volumes then a continuous inking 
> system works marvels.
> 
> eg these people
> 
>         http://www.rihac.com.au/
> 
> sell such systems in Australia. They claijm that they have 
> mixed and matched parts to make their's the best in the 
> world. That's as may be but they work well - I'm a happy 
> customer. I bought one for about $150 with 5 x 100 ml ink. 
> It's actually no causing problems that are probably of my 
> making (don't let the ink tanks go dry and don't cross the 
> beams or there will be marshmellow everywhere ...). So good 
> though that I've just ordered another and sometime [tm] hope 
> to get the other working agin on another printer.
> 
>> I've been stating the same over the recent 2-3 years,
>> since Samsung made its first Mono Laser around 70 EUR (to 
>> resellers).
> 
> Cheap 'LASERs often have refills catridges that cost more 
> than the 'LASER.
> 
> 
>> InkJets are only useful to print photos
> 
> See above.
> Good for all sorts with cheap ink.
> Being able to print reports in duplex with colour diagrams 
> is a great capability.
> Duplex colour LASERs get a bit dear and quality is down, as 
> yuou say. Speed is up. Toner costs are at the ransom cost of 
> their choice.
> 
>> (dpi is higher than Color LAser
>> and quality is inherently higher by now) but in the end I 
>> always
> 
> try to change that to "usually discourage it for most 
> people"
> 
>> discourage it: it's a mess and having them printed in a 
>> store is cheaper
>> and better.
> 
> CISs removes the mess. It's cheaper than stor prints.
> Quality can be extremely good. You don't get the sore 
> software trying to 'interpret' your print.
> 
> I buy good enough budget A4 170 gsm photo paper (DSE XM7105) 
> at $NZ0.28/sheet in 50's and cut it in 4 to give effectively 
> 6x4 at 7 cents/print. Ink costs are negligible with CISS. 
> And an A4 colour print for about $NZ0.35 is hard to find 
> commercially.
> 
> That paper is good enough for almost everything and I use 
> whatever suits for the very best prints.
> 
> 
> 
>         Russell
> 
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