Martha Adams wrote:


"kony" wrote in message
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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.


I think Schneier wants what he says he wants, and it could
be productive to review what he says. I noticed this thread
went over pretty quick to laser printers, without recognizing
a key difference from inkjets, that laser printers, even the
most modern ones, use a fuser step in copy printing and this
fuser has to boost power requirements sharply. The inkjet
has no fuser thus runs without that peak power need of the
laser printer's fuser. Until he says something else, as far
as I'm concerned he's asking about inkjets *for this reason*
and so laser printers are probably off his track. Maybe
someone could reply to him, asking, well, *could you use* a
laser printer in your application? And if he responds 'Yes,'
then the thread could go into laser printers. But for now I
see no reason at all to be talking about other than inkjets.

Cheers -- Martha Adams [comp.periphs.printers 2007 Dec 15]



I find Canon printers give near laser results when used in conjunction
with good quality paper. Not coated paper, just good quality paper.

-Taliesyn