[KLUG Members] Color Printer- Networkable

[Adam Williams]

>Out company is looking for a color network printer.  I am in need of
>suggestions.  First of all, this is going to be used for a couple of
>things:
>1.  Good quality photos
>2.  Quarterly news letter, printed on 11x17
>It's not going to get a whole lot of use to be quite honest, but we are
>needing something more than my lexmark 5700 can handle.  Quality is
>important.  
>In the reading I've done, it seems that ink jets are still the better
>quality when it comes to photos unless you want to spend 3-5k on a
>laser.  With the amount of work we are going to be doing on this, I find
>that not necessary.  I don't believe I've actually ever seen color laser
>jet output, so I don't know if the quality is comparable to ink jets.
>If you have experience with these, or have a good recommendation of a
>networkable color printer, say under $2k, I would appreciate hearing
>from you.

I've never seen color laser output, except from $$,$$$ Techtronix 
printers,  which was VERY nice by the way.

We have an HP2000CN,  it works.  It has the ink resevoir vs. cartridge is 
head thing.  The resevior system is less expensive to keep supplied with 
ink and has a lighter print head allowing the printer to go faster and be 
more reliable.

Also have a 1600C and an 895Cxe,  while only "indirectly" networkable, 
both seem to work very well although they are louder (especially the 
1600C) and much slower on multiple copies.

If you will be making multiple copies you want a printer with at least 8Mb 
of on-board RAM.

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