Comparative Test nine Low Cost Colorlasers

von Ulrich Junker

You pay a maximum of 500 Euros (and for one as little as 170). Prices are falling. Why buy an ink printer, when a color laser costs just a wee bit more? DC compares nine color laser printer in the price segment between 250 and 500 Euros.

Erschienen am 5. September 2007 bei Druckerchannel.de, 16 Seite(n)

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Speed of Color printing

DC-Farbfoto: dc_fotoyield.tif.

To test the quality of a photoprint the lab uses a TIF-type photo. It is 2.362 x 3.307 pixels and 11.627 kByte in size.

You can download a compressed JPG-version of this file in our download-area to check out your own equipment. You may also write and publish a review.

DC compares speed of printing for one page (see picture on the right) in best quality.

Speed of color printing (Smaller values better)
Oki C3300n	25 sec.
Lexmark C500n	32 sec.
HP Color Laserjet 1600	33 sec.
Canon i-Sensys LBP5000	35 sec.
HP Color Laserjet 2700	39 sec.
Dell 1320c	39 sec.
Lexmark C530dn	43 Sek.
Samsung CLP-300	68 sec.
Xerox Phaser 6110	71 sec.
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That´s peculiar

Lexmark´s C500n cannot keep up the printing speed of about 32 seconds for one color-page in A4 format. The printer spends a lot of time not printing, displaying "warming up", and meaning cooling down. The frequency of these time-outs increases the longer you print.

The printer shows a similar performance printing text.