Laser Printers

[onur369]

Exams are just less than 4 months away, I am planning on investing in a laser printer to print trials xD

Any suggested brands/models?

[Mao]

Exams are just less than 4 months away, I am planning on investing in a laser printer to print trials xD

Any suggested brands/models?

Teacher. Preferably a nice person.

[Lasercookie]

To be honest if all you want to do is print trials, it'd be cheaper to print them at your school (recharge your print credit) or at the local library etc. Laser printers are fairly expensive and with ink + paper, the cost goes up quite rapidly. It's much cheaper to use a public printer where it's like 5 cents per page. So a trial exam is usually about 25 pages maximum (usually less if you're not printing out coversheets, 'this page is blank', data sheets and irrelevant detailed studies) so that'd be about $1.25 per trial. So you could print out 80 trials (2000 pages!) for $100, but you probably won't find a good laser printer and all that paper and ink for $100.

Just something to think about. 

Edit: Other than that, I have a Lexmark printer at home. It's pretty good.

Though I do tend to print at school though because it prints out faster and with better ink quality (and again no need to worry about having to buy more paper and ink).

[onur369]

I found a cannon printer, $76, mind you I probably wont use it after exams lol.

[Lasercookie]

I found a cannon printer, $76, mind you I probably wont use it after exams lol.

Probably not really worth the investment if you're not going to get much use out of it after exams. The school or public library printers are undoubtedly going to be a lot better than a low-end printer. But there is that added advantage of having a printer at home for when you need to print urgently, but those times are kind of rare (for me anyway).

[Russ]

I don't know what your plans are re: tertiary studies, but I run through probably 20 printed pages a week minimum, so it's a decent future investment

[stonecold]

I don't know what your plans are re: tertiary studies, but I run through probably 20 printed pages a week minimum, so it's a decent future investment

Wow, that is low.  I went through about 3 reams this semester haha.

And you don't necessarily need a laser printer.  I have a shitbox Brother inkjet printer/scanner which we picked up from Harvey Norman like 3 years ago.  Its not the fastest thing, but it does the job and is still going strong.  I get the ink dirt cheap off eBay as well.

[Russ]

I have a Brother as well, it was the cheapest wireless one, which made me happy.

As for printing, yeah I underestimated a bit there but it depends on whether I double side it or not...otherwise ~40 is more accurate. Labs this semester are going to kill me though, there are already a ridiculous amount of papers on the LMS to read and print :S

[slothpomba]

You can print bulk at officeworks fairly cheaply. Good option if you think you wont get much use out of the printer from here on in, if youll only need to print the odd page or two this can be done at school/uni. Anything more than a couple pages every now and then is probably worth buying the printer to just save on the annoyance.