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Post by danhill on Jan 20, 2024 21:14:52 GMT
Hi all,
Was there an article in bubbles where somebody was talking about printing their own tabloid-sized zine with their own awesome, owned laser printer? Like maybe something you could conceivably get your mitts on for less than a grand? And that could print both sides?
I just flipped through all my bubbles and my thumbs got really dry but I couldn't find it. Did I hallucinate this? Does anybody remember somebody talking about their laser printer in bubbles and or does anybody know the name of a printer that could do this that could be owned by a personal guy rather than a business?
Hope you're Keeping warm! Yours in faith,
Dan Hill
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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 20, 2024 21:19:35 GMT
my search for this item was fruitless and i ended up buying a refurbished full-sized copy machine and i'm here to tell ya that if you got the space for it and can expand the budget that's the way to go. the smaller machines were all overly expensive and had small ink capacity, the big machine is a workhorse and the toner lasts FOREVER.
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Post by pentimento on Jan 21, 2024 1:47:26 GMT
my search for this item was fruitless and i ended up buying a refurbished full-sized copy machine and i'm here to tell ya that if you got the space for it and can expand the budget that's the way to go. the smaller machines were all overly expensive and had small ink capacity, the big machine is a workhorse and the toner lasts FOREVER. What brand you get, when did you get it, where, and how much? I'd give my left nut for a Ricoh circa 2005, or a Canon from 1990 |
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Post by JerrryJames on Jan 21, 2024 8:17:12 GMT
I did a bit of google-fu to see what I could find this time around because I remember looking this up before & feeling discouraged at the time. I need to find a good tabloid sized scanner because I'm very tired of scanning pages in 3 parts & sewing them together to the best of my abilities on photoshop. It does in fact seem like getting a used/refurbished copy machine is the best bang for your buck overall, however I just don't have the room for something like that even if I DID have the money to buy one. There's a few other options, but they're not necessarily easily available or that cheap either, still SOME options under a grand though that don't seem like total dogshit immediately. They're literally just called Tabloid Laser Printers if you want to look them up further. There's a ton of shitty options under $500 (new) that are falsely advertised to try & get suckers to buy them, but don't fall for them, tons of weird officejet, laserjet, inkjet options that would end up being a waste of money overall. However, after looking at printerstop.com/tabloid-laser-printers-11x17/?sort=priceasc , you can see a good amount of options in the $600-1000 range that are B/W Laser Tabloid Printers that print with a high dpi, 11"x17" is as large as they'll go, & most of them print double sided, but make sure you check first. Hopefully someone has some experience with one of these that they can talk from, because I'm only going based off of about an hours worth of research. I'm not necessarily recommending that website or buying them new, but that at least lists tons of models that you can look up to try & find local deals somehow, never know what you might come across. I see that most of the more affordable models are discontinued & they try to push newer, more expensive models, but you know there are hundreds of these things lying around in peoples basements & old offices everywhere that occasionally pop up for amazing deals, could be more than worth it to look into around your area. Speaking of which, I didn't get a tabloid printer, but while looking on my local craigslist I found a pretty damn good deal on a bunch of home office stuff that somebody's trying to sell, $250 for a nice Brother HL-L2320D b/w laser printer with just over half a drum (a full drum of high-yield ink is supposed to yield approx 2,600pgs & they're not ungodly priced like my shitty old inkjet printer that I still occasionally use), a nice clean 24'' monitor that doesn't look fried like mine, a used Lenovo laptop that was upgraded with 256GB SDD & 16gb DDR3 RAM & has a dock & backup batteries with two chargers, a set of old usb speakers, along with even MORE miscellaneous shit. Nothing of high end quality, but it seems like quite a good deal to me right now I'm hoping, they even have pictures of everything working & the guy didn't seem like a lunatic & was a good communicator when we messaged each other, looking forward to upgrading my setup a little bit. Plus, my dad needs some kind of computer even though he barely uses the internet at all & doesn't have a cell-phone; I got him into airbrushing lately for his fishing lures & he's been using my oldddd piece of shit computer that I gave up 5yrs ago after having it for over a decade to look things up, so I'll probably just give the laptop to him. |
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Post by mikesheawright on Jan 21, 2024 13:40:45 GMT
my search for this item was fruitless and i ended up buying a refurbished full-sized copy machine and i'm here to tell ya that if you got the space for it and can expand the budget that's the way to go. the smaller machines were all overly expensive and had small ink capacity, the big machine is a workhorse and the toner lasts FOREVER. What brand you get, when did you get it, where, and how much? I'd give my left nut for a Ricoh circa 2005, or a Canon from 1990 I got a Toshiba eStudio 2555c (I think it's like a 2011 model?) for $900 including delivery. it does double-sided, full-color, letter and tabloid and has a feeder tray for weird papers and sizes but i haven't tried that yet cuz i'm terrified of fucking it up. but i've printed hundreds of comics at both sizes in the past year or so, definitely already paid for itself in terms of what i would've paid someone else to print all that stuff. it also makes the cost of each issue basically nothing so selling stuff is just profit and you can keep prices low. you just have to be willing to commit the time to trimming, stapling, folding, etc.
the print quality is truly incredible, especially on nice paper. it reproduces things like colored pencil and watercolor extremely well, and the black toner is rich and dark and solid. it doesn't have the kind of punk aesthetic grimy artifacting that an older model would have, but that's also not totally my style anyway and i'm sure over time it will develop some fun "mistakes". i haven't done much experimenting with the flatbed yet really just using it as a huge printer. it's also fast as shit. A+ ten stars would purchase again.
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Post by awfulquiet on Jan 21, 2024 23:25:50 GMT
I use the library's big Xerox machine if I need to print anything tabloid size. But god help me if I ever find one on Facebook marketplace.
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