What printers do you own at home?

[Illustrator]

I own a Canon MP500 All in One Photo Printer and Minolta 1350W B/W Laser Printer. I'm looking to get a high quality color laser printer to use at home.

Is there any affordable home printer that can do a 11x17 prints? Just wondering. Thanks.

[Drazan]

the only printing I do at home is on a HP 722C. It's about 8 years old or so.

There's a small offset print shop about 1 block from where I live that also does copies. Not to mention the digital and wideformat Printers we have at work. And an Insty-Prints about 4 blocks south of me.


I think I'm covered in the print world. I can't print at home for the prices I get else where.

=)

[Derfie]

I use an Epson Photo Stylus 1280 inkjet that can print 13"x19". I recently also purchased a Xerox Phaser 8500 color laserjet, but it only prints up to 8.5"x11". I would have loved to get a color laser that printed tabloid, but it wasn't affordable for my home office.

[budafist]

I just have a simple brother black and white A4 printer at home. Cheap to buy and maintain. I bought it for around $100 and I've had it 2 years and have yet to spend any money (aside from paper) to maintain it. I think the toner can be expensive-ish, but if I need to buy 1 toner every 3 years I think we're doing ok.

If I want good quality colour prints, I just print at work :) One of the perks of working for a printer. :D

[Seapony]

I just have a simple brother black and white A4 printer at home. Cheap to buy and maintain. I bought it for around $100 and I've had it 2 years and have yet to spend any money (aside from paper) to maintain it. I think the toner can be expensive-ish, but if I need to buy 1 toner every 3 years I think we're doing ok.

If I want good quality colour prints, I just print at work :) One of the perks of working for a printer. :D

Haha, the memories. I used to run off novajet prints for parties, irises...I even output my wedding invites there. Man, I miss those perks. :D

I have an Epson Stylus Photo R200 (http://www.amazon.com/Epson-Stylus-R200-Photo-Printer/dp/B0001FDPZ6/sr=1-1/qid=1166476091/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/105-4947976-8500438?ie=UTF8&s=electronics) and an HP Laserjet 6L (needs toner, though). Don't have much space in the home office for anything too ostentacious, but I'm saving for either an Epson R1800 (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007OVML0/km-20/ref=nosim) (prints large format) or it's equivalent, a Canon i9900 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0001DBHNA/ref=pd_cp_e_title/105-4947976-8500438). I've heard good things about both. Toner is affordable enough with these.

The much larger format (like the Epson Stylus Pro 4400 (http://www.epson.com.sg/products/prographics/EPSON_Stylus_Pro_4400.shtml) for example) and tabloid color laser printer's toners can easily run into the hundreds, so it's something to also consider, stunning though their prints may be.

:)

[budafist]

We have the Epson Stylus 7600 at work and it powers through cartridges...They're pretty expensive, but it does work out in the end.

I did print some Christmas presents on there though this year - of some gorgeous holiday shots in China. Then got them block mounted at a super cheap rate (possibly staff rate) at a company we send a lot of work out for, just coz I work here.

[(gra-ph!c-D'sig-nah)]

I use a typewritter for all my printing needs....it takes 6 weeks to lay down one layer!:D

[MAK online]

Canon i9900
HP all in one officejet 6210
HP deskjet 812

The 13 year old HP laserjet 5mp is sitting on the floor waiting for me to trash it.

[pmkcreations]

Epson Stylus Color 860-6 years old and still prints great
Epson Stylus 3000–doesn't feed paper well
Epson Stylus Color 740-collecting dust, but back up unit

I'd like to get an Epson 1280 to replace the 3000.

[Virgo Nightingale]

Dell A290 All-in-One printer/scanner/copier.

[Loopy]

I have a hp deskjet 5940 I got for free with my digital camera, I also have a dell all in one sitting still sitting in the box that I recieved with my laptop. No more free printers please! :P

[prepress_goddess]

OKIDATA 5150 CN- awesome color and happy clients for short runs

[panzer]

we have a docucolor 12 at work slow but great finish xerox do some wonderful printers but the consumables pheeweeee we have a contract with em we pay a price per print NOT cheap

[Seapony]

Doc12's are a popular model it seems.

:)

[urstwile]

We had one for a while (a Doc12). It was...okay.

Right now, we're using the Konica Minolta Biz Hub C350. The accuracy from the printer to matchprint when we go to final color proofs is really, for the lack of a better word, satisfying. The Doc12 didn't ever seem to cut it. We were using a Splash RIP with the Doc12, don't know if that was the dealbreaker. All I know now is that I am usually reasonably positive that the color I see on our lasers will be very close to what we get back from our first matchprint. Which is very reassuring, let me tell ya. :)

We didn't spend any time calibrating either machine. Just seems like the Biz Hub comes closer with a moderate amount of tweaking than the Doc12 ever did.

[urstwile]

Oh, and by the way, that's not the printer I have at home. At home, I have a long unplugged, long unused Epson something or other inkjet. Which I never use, and am considering donating to Freecycle.org because whenever I need to print something, I usually go Buda's route, and bring it into work. :)

[emel]

I use an HP 2600n color laserjet (http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/product_detail.do?storeName=storefronts&landing=&category=laserjets&orderflow=1&a1=Color+printing&v1=Color&product_code=Q6455A%23ABA&catLevel=2). I love it - I can't stand proofing my work on an ink jet.

[SapphireCat]

I have 3 printers at home (not including the old dot matrix):

GCC EliteXL 808 laser printer - beautiful grayscales, edge-to-edge, 11x17-capable … no color
Epson Photo 1200 inkjet - nice color, 11x17 … barely used (wanna buy one? ;-) )
Dell 3110cn - nice color, not 11x17-capable

I meant to use the Epson for all my at-home 11x17 color work, but it hooked up to my G4 via a serial connection, and that was back in the day when I was using a serial modem, and I only had one serial port … so the printer just sat there unplugged. Now it's sat for so long that I'm sure all the inkjet heads are plugged up, or whatever happens when inkjets go idle for long periods of time. I ought to just try to get it fixed up and sell it.

[budafist]

dot matrix! We have lots of those at work. Not in our department, but in others. Not the fastest things are they?