posted: Sep. 29, 2006 @ 2:05p
rocker86 said:
Ummm...wouldn't a color laser printer have been faster, and cheaper?!?! Color laser printers are cheap (such as the Samsing CLP-510 at BJ's for $180 AR) and toner costs are *way* cheaper than ink.
First, you need to know a bought camarea and printer for $150 minut $30 minutes $15 ink coupons at Staples. This was marked down from $200.
Depends upon setup of laser. You also get into issues of imaging units, three color versum one color, and even brands. I might concede that if other 2,000 pages are printed, a color laster might be cheaper. But I only printed less than 1,000 pages. Most catridges for laser are rated 2,000 - 2500 pages 5 percent coverage, while ink catridges are rated 400-450 pages. Of course, some manufacters cheat that by using slighly small paper.
The IP4200 does duplexing - the yearbooks were printed on both sides of the paper. Mo manuel intervention was required. Most color laster do not have duplexing built in or even available. The less paper handling, the better. You have to have paper lined up just right when you feed back through or it comes up crooked. Plus, you have to print even pages one round and then odd pages the next. You will have twice as many runs as with a printer that does duplexing.
Also, you wouldn't have had to buy photo paper since laser printers print well on most paper types.
Most 'laser' paper types are only coated one side, not both. Those that do both sides tend to be very expensive.
Also, the combination of Canon's dye based ink combined with generic photo paper is not a good combination.
Same answer as above. Most photo paper is not meant to be printed on both sides. Those that are cost around over 50 cents a sheet.
Supposedly, people have reported that Canon dye based prints fade in about a year, and thats using genuine Canon paper, despite claims of 25 years by Canon. So I'm not sure how long your inkjet yearbooks are going to last.
Canon claims these last 100 years. This are the Chromalife 100 years. Nobody else claims close, even thermal and laser. Lots of factors decide on how long yearbooks last, such as temperature, how much sunlight, etc. How many times do you go back and look at your yearbook? Chances are not that much.
How does anyone really know how long photo's last? How long DVD's last? How long CD's? How long hard drives? You just don't know.
You do know that Staples no longer takes Canon cartridges It is now limited to HP, Lexmark, and Dell cartridges only.
The PSC1315 is HP, uses 56 and 57. I know that some Office Depots don't take HP, wasn't aware that Staples doesn't take Canons anymore. Either way, both stores have coupons to take off cost of catridges. A full set of color catridges runs for $50 for all four, easy to find filler to move up to $50 to get $10 off.
We will probably make and print yearbooks again this year. I appreciate any thoughts about cheapest and easiest way to print 1,000 photo quality paper.
