{"id":6809,"date":"2014-11-04T23:21:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=6809"},"modified":"2014-11-04T23:40:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T07:40:51","slug":"laser-printers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/04\/laser-printers\/","title":{"rendered":"Laser Printers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I started grad school this fall, all us students were talking about how much we had to print out for class&#8230; so many journal articles and class readers! Some folks complained at how expensive their inkjet printers were to run and I went into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?s=laser+printer\">my laser printer rant<\/a>. Here is the latest incarnation of that rant.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short form:<\/strong><br \/>\nlaser printers = fast, inexpensive ($0.05\/sheet), reliable, high quality<br \/>\ninkjet printers = cheap to buy but expensive to operate ($0.20\/sheet), almost as high quality as laser, almost<br \/>\nprint shop = expensive ($0.20\/sheet), inconvenient<\/p>\n<p><strong>Long form:<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst I have to admit that I killed my awesome HP Laserjet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/28\/really-nice-laser-printer\/\">P1606dn<\/a> by running cheap sticky labels through it the wrong way. I&#8217;ll tell you exactly how at the end, suffice to say that a normal person wouldn&#8217;t make such mistakes.<\/p>\n<p>So I needed a new printer. I&#8217;ve now had the Brother HL-2270DW for about 3 months.<br \/>\nPros:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>prints double sided<\/li>\n<li>prints fast<\/li>\n<li>wireless<\/li>\n<li>inexpensive (about $0.05\/page fully amortized with paper and everything)<\/li>\n<li>consistently excellent quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It can&#8217;t print on 3-holed paper, it jams, so I bought a 3-hole punch<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Throw away your ink jet printer. It&#8217;s the old &#8220;give away the razor sell the blades&#8221; scam all over again. Buy a laser printer instead.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the one I bought on Amazon<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00450DVDY\">Brother HL-2270DW Compact Laser Printer with Wireless Networking and Duplex<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be sure to buy the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003YFHCKY\">TN450 High Yield Black Toner<\/a> for $50 as well. The toner cartridge that comes with the printer is only a &#8220;demo&#8221; with like 500 pages worth of toner in it<\/p>\n<p>printer $100 amortized over 5000 pages (a conservative guess) $0.02 per page<br \/>\ntoner: $45\/ 2600 pages = $0.017 per page<br \/>\npaper: $0.016 per page<br \/>\nfinal cost $0.05 per page<\/p>\n<p>Now the dumb story of how I killed my printer with sticky labels. I bought these cheap sticky labels that used wax paper to hold the sticky sheets in place (better ones use some wonderfully slippery plastic. The sticky label has 2 giant 5&#8243;x8&#8243; labels on it. I printed 1 of the labels and then put the sheet through the printer again. I told the printer to <strong><em>print on the wax paper<\/em><\/strong>. Oops! After that moment, the ink refused to be fixed to the paper. I assume I wrecked the drum on the printer, gumming it up with wax. Maybe I could have fixed it but who has time for such things? I just bought a new printer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I started grad school this fall, all us students were talking about how much we had to print out for class&#8230; so many journal articles and class readers! Some folks complained at how expensive their inkjet printers were to run and I went into my laser printer rant. 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