{"id":1758,"date":"2008-02-10T14:36:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/02\/10\/250-hp-color-laser-printer\/"},"modified":"2008-02-10T14:42:19","modified_gmt":"2008-02-10T22:42:19","slug":"250-hp-color-laser-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/10\/250-hp-color-laser-printer\/","title":{"rendered":"$250 HP Color Laser Printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/hp2605dn1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/hp2605dn1.jpg\" alt=\"hp2605dn1.jpg\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"left\" height=\"195\" width=\"181\" \/><\/a>I just got an HP Color Laserjet 2605dn printer. Wow, the color images come out like photographs. HP is selling them on <a href=\"http:\/\/shopping.hp.com\">their website<\/a> for $250 after a rebate.<\/p>\n<p>As I was recommending to my sister recently&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t buy an inkjet printer<\/strong>, the cost of the ink will kill you over time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/inkjets.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/inkjets.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"inkjets.png\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"right\" height=\"183\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>HP has the guts to tell us how expensive it really <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopping.hp.com\/webapp\/shopping\/product_detail.do?product_code=C8165A%23A2L&amp;storeName=&amp;landing=&amp;category=&amp;subcat1=&amp;tab=supplies&amp;catLevel=&amp;mc=1&amp;sf=APPDEF1&amp;so=a&amp;subcat3=0&amp;dispSearch=yes#sub_cat_0\">is<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With the good HP 99 ink, they says you&#8217;ll get 130 4&#8243;x6&#8243; photos out of a $25 cartridge. That&#8217;s $0.20 per photo for the ink. Multiply that by 4 if you&#8217;re printing 8 1\/2&#8243; x 11&#8243; = <strong>$0.80 per sheet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For the laser printer, I recently printed 400 8 1\/2&#8243;x11&#8243; full-color brochures and the toner monitor tells me I&#8217;ve used up 20% of the capacity&#8230; IE I&#8217;ll get 2,000 full-size-full-color copies out of my $250 in color cartridges. That&#8217;s <strong>$0.12 per sheet<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/color-laserjet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/color-laserjet.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"color-laserjet.png\" class=\"imageframe\" align=\"left\" height=\"98\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wait, there&#8217;s more! I can refill my color toner twice before the drum wears out for $80 per refill (I&#8217;ve refilled toner before and it takes &lt; 15 minutes) That makes the <strong>cost per page for 6,000 full-size-full color pages $0.07 per page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>And if you&#8217;re not into refilling cartridges, then listen to this: the HP 2605dn comes with full toner cartridges&#8230; That means you get $0.12\/sheet color printing out of the box. when the toner is empty, <strike>throw the whole printer away and get a new one for the price of toner cartridges<\/strike>. (that isn&#8217;t very ecologically minded, is it? No!)<\/p>\n<p>More benefits to color laser printing:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laser toner doesn&#8217;t dry out on you like inkjet does. If you don&#8217;t use your inkjet printer for a few months, it&#8217;ll dry out and you need a new cartridge. It&#8217;s happened to me :-(<\/li>\n<li>Laser color usually looks better than color ink<\/li>\n<li>You can use more types of paper in a laser printer<\/li>\n<li>Laser printers tend to jam much less<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Oh and did I mention that the HP 2605dn has automatic duplex printing (IE, double sided printing)? Oh and it has ethernet built in too if you wanted a network printer.<\/p>\n<p>Go buy a color laser printer. Tell &#8217;em I sent you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got an HP Color Laserjet 2605dn printer. Wow, the color images come out like photographs. HP is selling them on their website for $250 after a rebate. As I was recommending to my sister recently&#8230; Don&#8217;t buy an inkjet printer, the cost of the ink will kill you over time. 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