Color Laser Printer Recommendations?

Posted by Cliff on Monday October 13, 2003 @10:50PM from the print-the-rainbow dept.

philipborlin asks: "We are a small publishing company that publishes medical reference books. We are currently doing in office proofs on an injet printer, but have noticed that sometimes the images we send to our print shop have artifacts that don't show up on our cheap setup. We are looking to buy a color laser printer that will hopefully alert us to the fact that these artifacts exist and allow us time to clean up the image before sending it to the print shop. We have googled the Internet, but have not found comprehensive details on print quality (besides the quantifiables like DPI, etc). Any ideas where we should start? What price range should we be looking at?"

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Buy a photo printer by Maskirovka · 2003-10-13 23:19 · Score: 2, Informative

It would be easier for people to advice you if they knew what your current printer is and what settings and paper you are using.
In any case, I would strongly recomend against a color laser printer for proofs: they just don't have the resolution that a high-end inkjet printer gives you on good paper (not costco $.50/ream shit). My recomendation would be either a tabloid printer (if you need the size), or a photo printer of some sort. My epson bias is based on some very very poor experiances with HP, whereas Epson's printershave been rock solid for me. Xerox has some nice looking equipment too, though I have never used it.