Re: Smokin' deal on a laser printer

I recently bought a Brother MFC8440 laser printer. My Canon coupler died,
and to fix it cost more than the all-in-one Brother that gives me a backup
laser printer, copier, fax, scanner. I don't remember what I paid for it
but it was not expensive, and it is fast.

I do a lot of photography, and color lasers are not recommended for that,
and I have an Epson 2200 for photography, a pricy ink jet, but the
cartridges are individual (6 colors) which makes a big difference in the
cost of replacements. It does a beautiful job of printing pictures and also
larger size. We have actually sold some of our Everglades prints.

Anyway I use that for anything that requires a color printer, and have no
need for a color laser. The Brother machine seems to be working just great.

Barb C.
"Bambi C." <blcc324@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:LT45f.1928$lb.135792@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I recently bought a Brother MFC 210C (fax, scan, print, copy) machine and
>it uses 3 color cartridges AND a black cartridge. It was a good deal too,
>$69 after the $30 rebate. It sure beats my old fax that used the rolls of
>film and my old printer that you had to hand feed the paper into!
>
> Bambi C.
>
> "Bob" <nottooslow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:MPG.1dbe149d26c797ab989706@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> In article <zIa4f.55547$7b6.19484@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>> RaeMorrill@xxxxxxx says...
>>> How much do the cartridges cost? From something I heard about a printer
>>> my SIL has, it sounded like her color laser required like 3 cartridges
>>> of varying colors? That is one heck of a deal - even w/o the rebate.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Rae,
>>
>> Most affordable color lasers use 3 different color toner cartridges.
>> The paper makes one pass through the unit and one color is printed, the
>> next color cartridge is moved into position, the page makes another
>> pass and gets the second color, the final color cartridge moves into
>> position, and the page makes its final pass to pick up the third color.
>>
>> One thing to be aware of on these types of color laser printers is that
>> it takes all three cartridges to print black. If you do mostly black
>> and white with color infrequently, you may be better off either:
>>
>> 1) Get an inexpensive black and white laser for most of your work and a
>> color inkjet for those infrequent color pages.
>>
>> 2) Get the black and white laser printer and send your color pages to a
>> Kinko's or something like that.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Bob/Texas
>
>


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