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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. I wasn't printing many photos anyway and its running costs were stopping me from printing much text too. It won't be here for a few days. I bought it for text, though I'll ask here anyway if anyone had experience with using a monochrome laser to print b&w photos. I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but how good is a monochrome laser at that? Is it usable? |
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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what
I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. I wasn't printing many photos anyway and its running costs were stopping me from printing much text too. It won't be here for a few days. I bought it for text, though I'll ask here anyway if anyone had experience with using a monochrome laser to print b&w photos. I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but how good is a monochrome laser at that? Is it usable? Not really. With an injet, you have some huge number of dots-per-pixel, giving you shades of gray. With a laser, it's black or it's white. steve |
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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
Mike Henley wrote:
I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. I wasn't printing many photos anyway and its running costs were stopping me from printing much text too. It won't be here for a few days. I bought it for text, though I'll ask here anyway if anyone had experience with using a monochrome laser to print b&w photos. I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but how good is a monochrome laser at that? Is it usable? I just tried a print on my Samsung laser. It's not that bad really, certainly usable for non-critical things, although I wouldn't really call it photographic quality. A problem you will have is with paper, I expect. I'm not sure how photo paper designed for inkjets would work, and I don't know if anything similar for lasers is available. It depends what you are thinking of using the output for, as to whether it's usable or not. |
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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
Mike Henley wrote: I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. Ran across this the other day and it looks interesting: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/co...april-05.shtml Check out the second part called "Carbon on Cotton". |
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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
"Mike Henley" wrote in message oups.com... I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. I wasn't printing many photos anyway and its running costs were stopping me from printing much text too. It won't be here for a few days. I bought it for text, though I'll ask here anyway if anyone had experience with using a monochrome laser to print b&w photos. I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but how good is a monochrome laser at that? Is it usable? I found them pretty poor at photos. I use non original ink to print monochrome and like the end results. My Print-Rite ink delivers a slightly different tone to my epson when set on 'black only'; but as it's blacker than Epson I quite like it. The cost of the Print-Rite cartridge is about 15% of the cost of an Epson cartridge, and in 7 months has not clogged the printer (10 carts). I print the odd text document on my inkjet, but never a long document. Mainly because it's slower than a laser and I have access to 2 laser printers elsewhere. If I want to print a 10 page+ document I pop it onot a memory stick and print it at work or on my Wife's printer. John |
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Anyone used a monochrome laser for b&w?
John Fryatt wrote: Mike Henley wrote: I got fed up with the running costs of my inkjet and decided that what I really need is a monochrome refillable laser printer. I wasn't printing many photos anyway and its running costs were stopping me from printing much text too. It won't be here for a few days. I bought it for text, though I'll ask here anyway if anyone had experience with using a monochrome laser to print b&w photos. I'm not expecting anything spectacular, but how good is a monochrome laser at that? Is it usable? I just tried a print on my Samsung laser. It's not that bad really, certainly usable for non-critical things, although I wouldn't really call it photographic quality. A problem you will have is with paper, I expect. I'm not sure how photo paper designed for inkjets would work, and I don't know if anything similar for lasers is available. It depends what you are thinking of using the output for, as to whether it's usable or not. To cover a few walls. Nothing fancy. I'll probably print on regular A4 paper, and change it often. |
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