New Printer...

[IdeaStormer]

Yeah.

I use mine pretty much every day.

 

You're doing something wrong, with modern tech the need for a printer if vanishing.

[Arshdeep]

Why do you need a printer? It's about as useful as a CD player.

Thats why I need it.

 

I started a whole thread after it.........

Edited November 21, 2013 by Arshdeep

[Fetzie]

You're doing something wrong, with modern tech the need for a printer if vanishing.

 

Well, say you have this document you are supposed to proof read and comment on, and say you can do that much better with it printed out (like me). Or you want to print out a time-table. Or you get an E-Ticket for a flight or train journey and need to print out the receipt. Or you have to send an application form somewhere, and it needs printing out and signing. Or directions to get somewhere, but it is abroad so you don't want to bankrupt yourself with roaming charges. Or you have to hand in homework.

 

Nope, no need for a printer in this day and age. None at all.

 

I'm very happy with my Samsung ML-3471ND. It prints over 30 pages per minute, toner lasts forever, it has network connectivity, expandable memory and can take multiple types of paper, and it only cost 160 euro including shipping. Toner cartridges cost about 85 euro and last about 15,000 sheets. The toner cartridge it was delivered with lasted about 5000 sheets. There is probably a new version of it available that is better, mind.

 

Show me an inkjet that goes 15,000 sheets before needing the ink replacing

[IdeaStormer]

Well, say you have this document you are supposed to proof read and comment on, and say you can do that much better with it printed out (like me). Or you want to print out a time-table. Or you get an E-Ticket for a flight or train journey and need to print out the receipt. Or you have to send an application form somewhere, and it needs printing out and signing. Or directions to get somewhere, but it is abroad so you don't want to bankrupt yourself with roaming charges. Or you have to hand in homework.

 

Nope, no need for a printer in this day and age. None at all.

 

I'm very happy with my Samsung ML-3471ND. It prints over 30 pages per minute, toner lasts forever, it has network connectivity, expandable memory and can take multiple types of paper, and it only cost 160 euro including shipping. Toner cartridges cost about 85 euro and last about 15,000 sheets. The toner cartridge it was delivered with lasted about 5000 sheets. There is probably a new version of it available that is better, mind.

 

Show me an inkjet that goes 15,000 sheets before needing the ink replacing

 

1. Proof read on the computer or even on a cell phone these days... Especially if its a doc meant to be read online!

2. You can print out to a PDF or your favorite format and read it on your phone sans any data charge, or does your cell provider charge for reading files off your phone?

3. You can save your directions to a text file! And still get there, its worked back in the day before computers so I'm pretty sure a text file on your phone will get you to your location.

4. You've heard of e-Fax and a scanner to scan your sig on to papers, right?

 

Before you go off on running out of batteries, any self proclaimed LTT member is knowledgeable enough to know a spare battery or battery backup device is needed in the modern world but not a printer.

 

4. I can show you a lame touch device (old phone or tablet) that can be your scratch paper for your notes, whether it be directions or papers you want to proof read or other, for less than even your current printer.

[mgsstar]

I would just wait for a sale on Black Friday or Christmas for an HP laser printer as they are great. Used a Samsung printer before also and pretty satisfied with it.

[Fetzie]

1. Proof read on the computer or even on a cell phone these days... Especially if its a doc meant to be read online!

2. You can print out to a PDF or your favorite format and read it on your phone sans any data charge, or does your cell provider charge for reading files off your phone?

3. You can save your directions to a text file! And still get there, its worked back in the day before computers so I'm pretty sure a text file on your phone will get you to your location.

4. You've heard of e-Fax and a scanner to scan your sig on to papers, right?

 

Before you go off on running out of batteries, any self proclaimed LTT member is knowledgeable enough to know a spare battery or battery backup device is needed in the modern world but not a printer.

 

4. I can show you a lame touch device (old phone or tablet) that can be your scratch paper for your notes, whether it be directions or papers you want to proof read or other, for less than even your current printer.

 

I have tried learning from an laptop or computer display, and I just don't get as much out of a text as I do when I have a print-out. Maybe I'm just old fashioned like that. It is easier for me to flip through a sheet of paper looking for a note I made than it is to swap to a different document, find a note, swap back to the other document and type it in.

I prefer writing notes on paper, and I hate alt-tabbing between documents.

I needed a printer for class notes because I learn better with a printed out document, and for handing in assignments. In the days before hand-held computers, we printed stuff out, remember?

I don't have a scanner, when I got my printer I explicitly wanted one without a scanner function because the last multi-function device I had, the scanner broke and the printer part refused to work thereafter.

 

I like paper. I like stuff printed out. You don't, that much is obvious, but that doesn't mean I need to be converted. Electronic documents have their place, but in my opinion that isn't everywhere. And like I said, I printed over 5000 pages in 2 years.

[EpicGeekonFire]

Main Point: At that much money its not worth buying ink for that printer. Most are stupidly ineffecient and waste ink like its Coconuts in india....