[X4U] Re: Looking For A Good Black-and-white Laser Printer

[Matthew Barr]

Just as an aside, in the color world, Xerox has a unit that is $999, 
that includes networking, Adobe Postscript 3, and solid ink.  24ppm 
color or B&W.

http://www.office.xerox.com/perl-bin/product.pl?product=8400&page=spec

I just don't like the 4 pass units much.

Note: We do sell these, but I've never actually used this unit.  I've a 
lot of experience with the 7300 line, and some with the 6100.  We've 
had no problems with the 7300's, but the 6100's are a slow.  That's due 
to the class- they are 4 toner units, and the price is about $500. It 
also has a built in duplexer.

We haven't sold any of their black & white printers into clients.

Matthew

Disclaimer: Obviously, we sell these. We are a Xerox Dealer.

Matthew Barr
Managing Partner
Datalyte Consulting, LLC
Apple Authorized Reseller
mailto:mbarr at datalyte.com
cell: (646) 765-6878


On Mar 11, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Anne-Marie Concepcion wrote:

> At 10:15 AM -0800 3/10/05, Randy B.Singer wrote:
>>  But that was over a decade ago.  Postscript
>> clones are fine now, and apparently they help to keep the price of a
>> laser printer down substantially over licensing real Adobe Postscript.
>>
>> I haven't heard a complaint about a Postscript clone in ages.
>
> If you post about a printing problem to any designer listserv, one of 
> the first questions they'll come back with is, "are you using an 
> emulated RIP or a "real" Adobe RIP"?
>
> It's a big issue in design circles ... many of whom use Macs ;-) . You 
> know, that whole publishing/advertising/creative pro market you may 
> have heard about... heh.  Adobe people on forums/listservs almost 
> always recommend designers (of any platform) spec actual Adobe 
> PostScript 3 RIPs in their laser printers.
>
> However I agree up to a point with Randy, that at least *some* Adobe 
> PostScript clones/emulators do perfectly fine with the latest 
> fancy-schmancy PS3-only effects like in-RIP transparency flattening. I 
> couldn't say if Brother's emulator does well, and would love to hear 
> any feedback from any Brother PS RIP-using designers here.
>
> I personallly am in love with OkiData's line of PostScript printers 
> which are quite affordable partly because they use their own emulator, 
> as Randy said. I saw them at Macworld in SF a couple years ago with a 
> cute little C5300 color LED PS-3 (emulated) laser writer. The sales 
> guy told me that OkiData was the top-selling line of color laser 
> writers for designers in Europe and they were just starting to market 
> in the U.S.
>
> They had Illy 10 loaded on a Mac hooked up to the printer so I tried 
> "breaking" its output with all sorts of bleeding edge Illustrator 
> partially transparent overlays, raster drop shadows on Pantone colors, 
> and tiny type rotated and outlined and filled with a pattern etc. It 
> output like a champ.
>
> And it's doing great now in my studio with the latest Creative Suite 
> and 10.3.8 etc.  BTW I think the street price for the C5300n ("n" for 
> network-ready, it has an ethernet port) is about $800... not bad for a 
> 4-color (4 toner carts) PostScript 3 laser printer ... letter size. I 
> think it's replaced now by the 5400n:
> http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/C5200n-C5400Home.html
>  ... shows the same MSRP as the 5300n when I bought it.
>
> I do duplex manually but it has an auto duplexer add-on you can buy. 
> It's letter size ... the tabloid extra version is I think around 2K 
> but it's a big machine... this one has a nice small footprint.
>
> Oki still hasn't figured out how to get their message to designers or 
> Mac users. But they have a few PostScript black and white printers, 
> some with Ethernet, duplexing options etc. Here's one:
> http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/B6200Home.html
>
> ... shows a suggested price of about $525.00, usually street is around 
> 25% less.
>
> Here's their list of all printers that support Mac OS X:
> http://www.okidata.com/mkt/html/nf/MacSupport.html
>
> AM
> -- 
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> Anne-Marie "HerGeekness" Concepcion, Fearless Leader
> Seneca Design & Training  |  http://www.senecadesign.com/
>
> DesignGeek Central: Tips and Tricks for the Digital Designer
> http://www.senecadesign.com/designgeek/
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
> _______________________________________________
> X4U mailing list
> X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u
>
> Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random 
> stuff:
>         http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984