At 06:01 AM 2/3/2008, you wrote:
>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, I've been stating the same over the recent 2-3 years,
>since Samsung made its first Mono Laser around 70 EUR (to resellers).
>
>InkJets are only useful to print photos (dpi is higher than Color LAser
>and quality is inherently higher by now) but in the end I always
>discourage it: it's a mess and having them printed in a store is cheaper
>and better.

It would be nice if there was a decent tabloid size
(drawing B size, 11.5 x 17") color laser printer for less than 15x-30x the
price of the least expensive color laser printers. A lot of schematics and
drawings are much better on B, C or D size "plots". Wide-carriage may be the
only niche left for the inkjets. They are used a lot for *very* wide carriage
work (3 or 4 meters) and I don't expect that to change anytime soon.

>Best regards,

Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..."            "The Journey is the reward"
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