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DrBoar · Mar 7, 2003, 06:02 AM

I intend to get a laserprinter at home and have been looking at Brother OkiPage and Samsung. Mostly some few pages of text so speed is not a big issue. I am thinking about he sub 400 dollar printers not big networked ones

I do need it to be able to print PDFs and my experience at least wih old laser printers is that some low end ones choke on complex PDFs.

Good drivers in OS X and dependability is very important.

I just left a Canon inkjet printer behind, bought on sale at Best Buy for 29 bucks, it was either jamming or gobble expensive ink like there was no tomorrow, so I am going laser.

Any experiences good or bad?

scaught · Mar 7, 2003, 07:48 AM

i like my HP laserjet 1200. works in X with no problems. wife prints out alot of photoshop stuff. networks via printer sharing without problem. i think its like $399.

we had a samsung or brother b&w laser printer prior to getting the HP and it was really junky. poor print quality. this one prints pretty nicely for the price, and the cartridge seems to last a long time. we had a HP laserjet 1000 or 1100 (parallel port connection) back when we were PCers that we liked alot too. ive had good experiences with HP printers.

they have a new HP color laserjet printer thats $999 that looks pretty good too.

Nebrie · Mar 7, 2003, 01:40 PM

Definately HP, there is a world of difference between their lasers and cheaper brands. Xerox is also good too I find.

israces · Mar 7, 2003, 07:49 PM

I agree on the HP 1200. Has worked perfectly for me with lots of use.

OreoCookie · Mar 8, 2003, 05:20 AM

I'd check out the Kyocera FS 1010. Should be in your price range (in Germany, you can find it for about 380 ?). 14 ppm (DinA4, should be more if you use letter), very cheap toner. Very robust printer, a bit more expensive, but it pays off (robust design, cheap toner, very reliable).

aaanorton · Mar 8, 2003, 10:15 AM

It's not quite as glamorous, but I always recommend the HP LaserJet 6MP. They're older, but were originally designed to be a true work-hose printer. If you can find one on eBay with a low page count, grab it. You can network these easily with an AsanteTalk device (again from eBay).

OreoCookie · Mar 8, 2003, 05:34 PM

If it's in the budget, get a new one. And it is in the budget. I just got an old Kyocera 1550 -- a great machine. You can put your hand anywhere in the paper way (a paper jam once killed my parent's HP LaserJet 3000, it got stuck in the fuser -- a replacement wasn't worth it after printing that many pages).

DrBoar · Mar 10, 2003, 08:43 AM

Thanks guys

I think I will go for the HP 1200 at 500 dollars here in Sweden (thanks to a 25% sale tax on almost everything), it is 100 dollars more than the Samsung, but HPs do seem to last a long time.

I even have a 64 MB DIMM SDRAM in my G4/400 that I can put into the printer to have 72 MB RAM in it! At least for a Apple Laser writer more RAM was a big help in getting though complex files.

So HP it is