paulwiddy

Some of the printers are before my time about 2 - 3 years. There are a couple that are just over a year. We do use originals as I have had bad experience in the past using copies/refills. We have had engineers out and all they say is the sensor at the back has had to be replaced, they clean them out and say nothing about the ton of multicoloured toner in the bottom of the printer. At this moment I am not greatly impressed and over last night I looked through all the threads and noticed people tend to not like konika and most people use HP 3600's. A general feeling is you either get a good printer or you get a rubbish one. The problem is evey school is different, the kids are different and the staff. Something I noticed earlier in this thread is it worth buying colour lasers or good inkjets?

At the end of the day we have been using konika minolta 2300 & 2400 series colour printers. The problem now is the toner is going everywhere, the printer is refusing to detect the toners are even installed. Picture quality is looking a bit rough, colours look dirty that should be blue are more purple. Cleaning them out completely works fine for a few days, but the problems arise again. Is it just the fact it is a cheap printer and they are like this, ie shake to death when printing. Would it be better to buy better printers? Any Advice? These are just common networked printers, in a class of 32 PC, printing around 10,000 - 15,000 pages a year (not hugh quantities) but they are yanked, bashed and generally abused like all items students become in contact with. Any advice would be great before I seriously do my back in lugging them to the nearest window

Just on the look out for new colour printers as I am about to throw all our colour laser out(throught the nearest window) , it is nice to read that so many people rate the HP 3600 printers as being a printer you can reply and trust not to mess up.