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Buy.com offers this 15PPM Duplex printer for $278.95. Does anyone have any experience with this printer, in terms of actual speed, reliability, noise, duplex feature, ease of use, etc.? It offers exactly the features I'm looking for in a personal laser, especially 15ppm and duplex, but this price seems too good to be true, and I'm wondering if there's a catch somewhere.

seems too good to be true, and I'm wondering if there's a catch somewhere. General rule of thumb is if it seems too good to be true, it is. They don't make money on the printers, they make it on the consumables. Price the consumables, if you can find them. Non HP printers consumables generally aren't stocked, but have to be special ordered. Also it falls into the category of disposable printer . If it breaks, no way you're going to get it fixed in a timely or cost effective manner. So you buy the extended warranty. Good luck getting it back in anything less than 6 weeks. So now you have to buy a replacement printer to tide you over. You would have been better off just tossing it and buying a new one. Back to the disposable printer concept. Another rule of thumb is You get what you pay for .

Do you work for HP or do you just have something against non-HP printers? I appreciate your general comments, but they don't answer my question on this SPECIFIC printer. HP makes some fine printers. In fact whatever new printer I purchase will replace my ancient HP 4P, which has worked well for over 8 years. And nearly every firm I've ever worked for has standardized on HP printers. However, they're a lot more expensive than comparable printers from other makes, so I figure that even if the consumable are more expensive, I'll ultimately save money by buying a non-HP printer. This will be for light to moderate (non-business) home use, so I'm not going to be going through toner like there's no tomorrow. My main concerns then are not about price, but of noise, reliability, speed, features, ease of use, etc. Not everyone buys something because it's cost-effective, although, for my needs, this printer will probably be more cost-effective than a comparable HP.

Incidentally, I did some research and it turns out that this printer's toner is rated at 4000 pages, and its drum at 20,000 pages, costing around $52 & $110, respectively. Assuming that they're even halfway close to real-world results, these figures seem fairly reasonable.