High quality colour laser printer?

[Fluke]

Hi all,

hoping for some input if possible. I need to spec up a new colour laser printer for our marketing department.

They currently use an old OKI C7300 LED A4 printer. Quality wise it is fantastic - and knocks the socks off the Kyocera FS-C5030s we have in the staffrooms.

Because it will be used to produce short run marketing fliers/posters and also proofs prior to being sent to external printers, print quality is really the main priority here.

 

Idealy we would like to get one on contract and pay a monthly copy charge and have the service call out cover.

 

If anyone has any input or pointer then that would be great.

 

Cheers.

[sonofsanta]

The current Oki's are excellent as well - we have a few of the Executive Series on contract from Fovia and the print quality is wonderful. Quarterly rental + cost per page gets us all inclusive for toner with 4 hour support, though I imagine you can get the ES range from a number of resellers.

[dhicks]

Because it will be used to produce short run marketing fliers/posters and also proofs prior to being sent to external printers, print quality is really the main priority here.

 

Maybe not so much print quality as matching the output of your screen and printer with the output you'll get from the external printers. As such, a Pantone huey (or similar) colour-calibration device for your marketing department's monitors would probably be a good idea - about £100 each, I seem to remember.

 

You might want to look at the Xerox Phaser range of printers - not lasers, although they look similar, they actually print with wax-like solid ink:

 

Solid ink - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Fluke]

Thanks guys, I'll take a look at both options

[insideout]

check out this device - we have one and its been superb. Plus Because they dont have any waste as such they are very eco friendly

 

Colour Printer: ColorQube 8870 Professional Printer - Xerox