Hello!
schrieb:
I am looking to purchase my 1st color laser printer.
Fine!
Iam a graphic designer that does print and web projects. You do print for customer’s preview?
I would like to find one that is great but not too pricey. Look for the Lexmark C530dn. Costs ~450-500$
We first got a KM mc5430dl, but the price of the color-cartridges were way to expensive (~140-210$ each for 3.000 pages). He also lack a bit of color-acuracy.
The Lexmark has built-in duplex, Postscript, PCL, an Ethernet-interface, an much less cost-per-page due to the fact that the cartridges are much more cheaper (~50 for 3.000 pages). And, in fact, we print a lot with this printer, cardstock, labels, overhead-transparencies, and a lot of id-cards. The Lexmark renders photos a little bit like my old reliable Epson Stylus PhotoPro, even on the worst paper you can feed him.
And on top: there’s an extra driver for black printing only! The only advantage of the KM is the very fast time-to-first-print, he is 3-4 times faster than the Lexmark, but that could be influenced by the memory (768MB for the KM, 128MB for the Lexmark, had to try it out)
Any help would be wonderful.
Hope you enjoy your first color-laser.
Roland