Best printer for design shop?
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- kidbombay
We are looking for a new color printer for printing out comps, layouts etc. What's the best one for a design shop? Quality is the most important, followed by color reproduction, wide format and price.
- akrok0
that's a epson vs. canon battle. :-)
- kidbombay0
So only inket? Does color laser even compare?
- hektor9110
canon 9000
- gramme0
I'm interested in this one too. I'm so sick of my printer. Where I used to work, we had a Xerox, can't remember the model. One of those printers that makes copies, has multiple trays, etc. Laser, not museum-worthy by any means, but it was routinely calibrated. But we couldn't print bigger than 11x17, so when working on bigger things we had to go bananas with the tiling.
- gramme0
Also, I don't have nearly as much room in my (home) office as I once did, so I can't accommodate one of those battleships in here anyway.
- bjladams0
last place i was at the boss had an xerox that printed from wax- xerox gave the printer free as long as we used so much wax/ink a month. color was really good- but pretty much everything melted off the page within a year of direct light- boss started freakin out cause all his records were disappearing like a curse. so dont go with that one. i think it was phaser x 8560- good for the laughs though.
- Kiino0
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- Josev0
I have an older Phaser and an Epson. I prefer the quality of the inkjets over the lasers, but the Epson goes through ink like crazy. Epson's hand is in my back pocket with a firm grip on my wallet.
- I would like to document how many prints I get out of the cartridges. They always feel half full when the printer says they're empty.Josev
- they're empty.Josev
- Maybe the Canons are better. Kodak was advertising itself as the printer that's frugal with ink. Unfortunately they dont sell a tabloid model.Josev
- tabloid version.Josev
- kidbombay0
Ya been looking at the phaser 7500. It's a beast but beautiful output.
- maikel0
I've got a Xerox 7760 at the office. I guess it produces about the best you can have on laser/phaser and can handle some print volume without killing you. Also the footprint is rather small for an A3 colour beast.
For top quality comps go for epson, but mind you the paper and ink to print to a reasonable quality is def expensive and don't even think of those for volume printing. The large format ones have also a ridiculously good quality, and the cost per print goes down a bit.
my 2c