Advice on a good Laser Printer

[Lee_Roy]

Hey I'm looking at buying a colour laser printer. Not one of those big expensive ones that print 25 pages a second. Just a small one that will do letter and legal size. I seen cheap one from HP, Samsung and Konico Minolta. Are any of these good. It will mostly print a lot of Black and the occasional colour. Also I don't want it to breakdown in a year either. The price range is basically $200 - $600 Canadian. Thanks for the advice.

[Swing]

I was in the same boat over the past few months and also preferred a laser, but I needed occasional color and had to have duplex printing. So I finally settled on a Canon pixma 4000R, which has the added benefit of wi-fi. After finally configuring it with a twitchy adsl wi-fi router I am pleased. Alhough it is not a laser, it fits your budget and works well.

EDIT: FWIW I believe if you want to print legal size you must use the top feeder and not the tray feeder, and I am not sure whether duplex will work with legal.

[Yonzie]

Samsung 550N
Colour laser, duplex, LAN, 1200x1200dpi, and (most importantly) PostScript. Oh, and it's cheap (but weights ~80lbs).
Thanks to it's PS support, it works on eveything from Windows through Mac to Linux and onto more exotic stuff. The included Mac software is pretty much unuseable though, and you probably want the assistance of a Windows PC to set it up (primarily to set the IP). That's only needed once though.

No clue about Legal since I live in A4-land (check out samsung.com or something). There's also an optional tray that holds 500 sheets, but it costs almost as much as the printer itself...

I haven't had this printer for too long, but it seems to work good. Time to first page is a bit long if it's been in sleep-mode though.

[Swing]

Or the new Canon Pixma ip5200R, instead of the ip4000R, at the same price. The 5200R appears to have the same specs and capabilities, with the exception of 9600x2400 color dpi instead of the 4000R's 4800x1200 color dpi. Again, not a laser but the price is very hard to beat.

EDIT: The ip5200R also appears to use 'better' inks and to be a bit faster.