(Again) Recommend me a decent cheap laser printer for classrooms...

[mikkydoos]

Hi all,

 

Happy belated new school year :doh:

 

 

I need some recommendations for decent classroom colour laser printers and from where please.

 

A4 single side print only

500 sheet paper tray

Network

No colour display

speedy-ish

Bullet proof ( )

 

As few consumables as possible... e.g. no waste toner bottle, imaging drums for each colour, photoconductors for each colour etc etc.

 

There are so many cheap printers out there but the consumables costs and quantity of consumables are flippin' ridiculous.

 

Used to have some HP's that only had a fuser and 4 toner cartridges. Do these still exist ?

 

 

 

Cheers in advance

[Jamman960]

I've given up on classroom printing all together, get them up and walking to nearby MFD's ideally with follow me print etc

 

I used to waste so much tech time on classroom printers, now everyone uses the MFD's and we just call our supplier in for any issues on a 4hr callout. The cost savings on labor and consumables/parts easily justified the move.

[mikkydoos]

I know. This is in a primary school IT room for kids to print to. All the rest of mine are MFD's

[synaesthesia]

For that level of printing I'd strongly suggest the HP pagewide inkjets. Cheap, ink (originals) are still relatively cheap so running costs are low.

[mikkydoos]

For that level of printing I'd strongly suggest the HP pagewide inkjets. Cheap, ink (originals) are still relatively cheap so running costs are low.

 

I've had one of those and it really didn't like playing with Papercut. Never got to the bottom of it.