New Color Laserjet
I finally purchased a printer on Saturday to replace my black and white HP 5si Laserjet. I knew I wanted color this time but was waiting for something that would break the bank. I’ve had my eye on the HP 2600n for some time now but at $400 it was a little more than an impulse buy.
Saturday when I noticed Staples was offering $100 off as instant savings, no rebates, I snapped one up. It should be here on Wednesday…
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January 14th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Good luck. When the 2600 comes it will do a beautiful job. It is an easy printer to like – relatively quiet and pretty quick considering the price. The print quality is very good too. Not quite photo quality, but very good nevertheless. I use mine for brochures, newsletters, etc.
BUT I am on my second 2600n. The first (and second) performed wonderfully right out of the box, but after using 2 replacement black toner cartridges and just as it was about time to replace the color cartridges, the printer started making dirty copies, artifacts showed up with repeated faded images showing up down the page. I called the printer repair service I have used for my other HP printers – heavy duty workhorses which are networked at the office. He took a look and diagnosed the problem as a fuser roller (or some such) and the cost to replace it would be $200+. I had 3 new toner cartridges sitting there and the repair cost would be nearly the cost of a replacement printer.
So, assuming I just had a dud and with no real alternative, I bought another 2600n, which arrived with 4 full toner cartridges, and I used it as I had the other one. Again, flawless copies. Just beautiful.
I have just replaced the black cartridge for the second time and also just replaced the magenta cartridge. And the same problem is occurring again. Dirty copies; artifacts down the page. Got online and the part I need to replace – assuming I have correctly diagnosed the problem – is about $87. My current dilemma is whether to hazard the replacement myself or order the part, hope that I am right and get the repairman to replace it. Probably at the cost of another $35 – 50.
Frankly, I had thought that HP was the best deal. I had a Konica Minolta color laser before this. But the idea that the thing is so poorly made that you only get about 10 months use out of it and that you can buy a new printer for less than it costs to replace the toner cartridges in the one you have is nuts.
I still have the first one, all bundled in the packing material that came with the second one…
No more for me, thanks.
Jim