Spec me a laser printer for photograps

juno_first · 25 Jul 2013 at 23:41

I'm after a colour laser printer up to £150 for A4 that can handle 200g/m2 glossy photo paper. Not fussed about printer LCD, gizmos, scanner etc. but it must have ethernet or wifi.
Preferably be ok at printing regular letters & photographs. I was happy with Samsung CLP-365 prints.

As i'm new to PC printers (but used to print for Kodak lol) i'd appreciate some printer options, thanks

My turmoil over the past 2 days:

I bought an inkjet Epson xp305
The colours were not that great from photshop but mainly the inks that came with it only printed 6x A4 photos + a couple photos of smaller test images.
Being as new inks would cost a fortune when printing photos I bought some refillable cartridges + inks but the printer wont recognize them :mad:

(tried turning off printer etc).

Had enough of inkjet :rolleyes:

Sick of sanding away multi-coloured fingertips.

Bought a laser Samsung CLP-365W
Very impressed with build quality compared to Epson & print quality is better. The colours were good including blacks & better than Epson & I dont know why people moan about laser printers & photographs as I thought the results were good & not far off the Epson. For the best photos theres always the supermarket 1hr option.
But...
The specs for the printer say it can handle up to 220g glossy paper but Staples glossy 200g paper jammed 90% of time so I took it back for a refund

Plus I swear I saw smoke coming out & the insides became covered in failed print toner.

SickAsAParrot · 26 Jul 2013 at 08:21

I didn't think laser printers worked with glossy paper, or am I being an idiot?

Genoma · 26 Jul 2013 at 08:36

According to Google there is laser specific glossy paper.

juno_first · 26 Jul 2013 at 16:32

Yes there is laser specific glossy paper, which also showed in the driver settings for the Samsung laser CLP-365. In Staples they had 170g & 200g of their own make, I think there was a much more expensive Kodak brand too.
I think most colour laser printers can print on glossy photo paper.

I'm guessing the Samsung laser printer I had kept jamming because of the paper weight, even though it was advertised up to 220g my 200g jammed 90% of the time.

startrek2 · 28 Jul 2013 at 20:30

the clp 365w does seem to show smoke both mine do and ive used 200g paper not had problem but i dont think any laser is good for photo printing ,, i use them for proofs and samples thats it

the smoke bit is occasional and not a worry if they get near the 1 yr old and appear worse warranty them back

juno_first · 28 Jul 2013 at 23:05

Took the Samsung-365W back & had a refund. Only managed get 1x photo glossy 200g through it & was pleasantly surprised at the print quality even though reviews showed the photo quality of this printer not to be very good.

Well ive done a lot of research so hopefully my next choice of a Dell C1760NW is better.
Its a basic colour laser printer thats cheaper than the Samsung too but apparently photo results are better. Plus non genuine toner is very cheap at £25 for all 4 colours or £35 for high yield 2000 prints so hopefully these toners will be ok.

Trouble is the Dell C1760 only handles paper weights up to 163g/m2 as do most colour laser printers. I'm trying find some colour laser photo glossy paper now less than 170g or would 180g be ok as I found some of that.