On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 14:42:07 -0700, "DanG"
wrote:


"B. Schneier" wrote in message
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Most of my printing involves documents and legal briefs. There is some
color printing for brochures and stuff I find on the Internet. Can someone
recommend a color ink jet that prints laser-like text and is reasonably
fast.

Thanks in advance,

BS

"Fast" and "quality" do not always quarter in comfort.

Almost any inkjet is capable of excellent quality text with the right paper,
and almost any high-quality printer is capable of producing crappy text with
the wrong paper.

Agreed, with an inkjet, but what do you consider a good
high-volume use paper for inkjet?

One of the benefits of a laser is that just about anything
you shove into it (besides very glossy paper the toner just
won't adhere to before it's fused to the paper, or certain
types of plastics that have a melting point too low... more
of a problem with older lasers that ran at higher fuser
temps than today's color lasers that use toner with more
waxy-whatever lower melting point), prints out sharp as a
tack. Basically it means you can buy bulk copy machine
paper which is far less expensive than many other types.




The latest Canon models, IP4500 being the cheapest, have a larger head and
are capable of speed and quality. They will use either dye or pigment black
depending your paper settings. (IP3500 has only pigment black and text
quality will suffer using high-res paper settings). The caveat being that
you need to select appropriate paper, and off-the-shelf 20# paper isn't it.


The other option is what many people do, use a B&W laser for
text documents and (color) inkjet for pictures.