Colour Laser Printers -Help.

[Bud Wiser]

I hate bothering ye boys like this but I am absolutely and totally confused to the point of giving up. I have a little business for which I have to produce specifications along with each quotation.  Me likes to include a few colour brochures of the product when I do this so the customer sees what he gets. I can't use the manufacturers brochure because there is none or I don't want to include the name of the manufacturing company or whatever. I can't get the stuff printed because the product for each customer varies whereas todays specification may include a picture of a lovely big Rhode Island Red brown hen egg and tomorrows a big sky blue duck egg type of situation.

So, can anyone suggest a laser printer that does colour at around three or four hundred euro that when the ink toner cartridges run out I do not have to ring Peter McKenna and ask him to do a testimonial in Croke Park for me to find the money to replace them.  A good printer that will produce quality colour in small amounts. Any help from anyone who has one that is doing the job for them will be much appreciated. I know this is not the stuff to put on here but I saw one 'dother day asking can you reheat boiled rice!

[Mhic Easmuint]

Used Hp CLJ 2700 and CLJ 3600. 
Will meet your cost.  Good printers decent quality.
Replacement cartridges cost about £75

Price of printer will vary if you require networking or duplexing.

[Mac hinery]

Bud, I've been looking at the lexmark C530dn or the brother HL -4040cn.

reviews here http://www.pcpro.co.uk/labs/156354/lexmark-c530dn.html

I've used the brother before around 50 sterling for the high yield cartridges

This time I'm going for the Lexmark because it has duplex printing.

[Bud Wiser]

Thanks lads, the hp3600 is a fair right yoke. There is enough juice in her on purchase to print 4000 pages so it would cost the price of her to get printing done anyway.
€430  plus Vat on Elara website with 4 replacement cartridges when she goes dry costing €111.00 each.

Off to look at MacHinery's now.

[mylestheslasher]

Dell have some decent ones too. Company I used to work for had one and it worked very well and Dells cartrdiges are among the cheapest and can be bought online from their website. Stay away from OKI - we spent €3000 on one once and it gave trouble every second week.

[Billys Boots]

At work, we'd need to produce double-sided colour prints, so we've duplex and networked capability - over the past 8 yrs we've had an Epson (which was awful) and currently a HP 5500.  I think it would be a bit out of the price league you're looking at though.

Oh, and I almost forgot, the better quality the print, the higher the memory requirement for the printer, so it can take quite a long time to print a document of large size (in MB), or it may have to be split into several documents smaller in size to print successfully in a reasonable time.