passatdoc
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HP 1020 and cheap toner source.
My "daily driver" printer at my desk at work is an HP 1020---we have two of these in the office, which are five and eight years old, with perfect service. The five year old machine is the one at my desk. We have a very cheap source for the cartridges:
www.supermediastore.com
which sells toner cartridges for as little as $20 each. We've never had a bad cartridge in eight years. The store is located in California, so if you are out of state (e.g. Allan in Texas) there is no sales tax, with free shipping on larger orders.
At home, I needed a machine that would fit in a 17.5" wide space in a hutch above my computer desk, and I wanted an automatic document feeder so I could scan multipage documents. I bought an HP J4680 all-in-one. I do very little printing at home, once in awhile I have to print a photograph or something high quality, but at my volume the ink costs are reasonable. I am more likely to use the scanning or photocopying features. It also serves as the home fax. It has a document feeder (not huge, like 20 sheets) that lets me scan and then shred documents (which are then stored on a PDF file). It has WiFi, which I use so that I can print from it using my laptop anywhere in the house, but it's also hardwired to my primary desktop computer. I think the non-Wifi version goes for under $99 and I paid $129 for the WiFi version. By now the WiFi version may go for $99 as well, not sure. Pretty good feature set for the price.
There are fancier, higher powered all in ones in the HP line-up, but remember I needed a printer that didn't exceed 17.5 inches in width, and the J4680 was the only all in one with a document feeder that met this requirement.
For fast, cheap, high volume use, nothing beats a laser and my HP 1020 is a workhorse.
[this post was last edited: 4/19/2012-09:17]
My "daily driver" printer at my desk at work is an HP 1020---we have two of these in the office, which are five and eight years old, with perfect service. The five year old machine is the one at my desk. We have a very cheap source for the cartridges:
www.supermediastore.com
which sells toner cartridges for as little as $20 each. We've never had a bad cartridge in eight years. The store is located in California, so if you are out of state (e.g. Allan in Texas) there is no sales tax, with free shipping on larger orders.
At home, I needed a machine that would fit in a 17.5" wide space in a hutch above my computer desk, and I wanted an automatic document feeder so I could scan multipage documents. I bought an HP J4680 all-in-one. I do very little printing at home, once in awhile I have to print a photograph or something high quality, but at my volume the ink costs are reasonable. I am more likely to use the scanning or photocopying features. It also serves as the home fax. It has a document feeder (not huge, like 20 sheets) that lets me scan and then shred documents (which are then stored on a PDF file). It has WiFi, which I use so that I can print from it using my laptop anywhere in the house, but it's also hardwired to my primary desktop computer. I think the non-Wifi version goes for under $99 and I paid $129 for the WiFi version. By now the WiFi version may go for $99 as well, not sure. Pretty good feature set for the price.
There are fancier, higher powered all in ones in the HP line-up, but remember I needed a printer that didn't exceed 17.5 inches in width, and the J4680 was the only all in one with a document feeder that met this requirement.
For fast, cheap, high volume use, nothing beats a laser and my HP 1020 is a workhorse.
[this post was last edited: 4/19/2012-09:17]
