So You Think Your Printer Is Expensive?
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Loading ...When you first brought your printer home from the store, you may have been all agog at the fact that you bought an expensive printer. Some shopping guru may have convinced you that buying pricey things should be thought of as an investment because of the returns they would be able to give you. And that must have been your state of mind when you purchased that expensive printer.
Cut to a couple of months or so later. Because that monster of a printer that you had bought seems to guzzle more ink and eat more paper than you had foreseen, you are now having second thoughts as to whether that investment decision you made a few months earlier was really a wise one. For you, it was definitely a case of buying the wrong type of printer for your needs.
The market has its share of expensive printers. You would expect printer prices to be really high for machines used in offices where high-volume printing is required, or in printing shops, or for special uses such as art and professional photography. Here are a few printer models whose prices, being a thousand dollars and above, may not be practical for home use but are still sweet to look at.
1. Lexmark C782n. The Lexmark C782n is actually the cheapest of all the printer models in the Lexmark C782 series. However, with the price pegged between $1,300 to $2,400, and it depends on where you are buying it, this color laser printer model may be too pricey for home use. But still, with a speed of 40ppm for monochrome prints and 35ppm for color prints, and with an efficient paper-handling system and impressive print outputs, one may indeed consider it an expensive printer worth investing on.
2. Xerox Phaser 8860 Color Printer. The Xerox Phaser 8860 Color Printer is one of those expensive printers that can actually save you money. Crazy as that may sound, Xerox has actually made the ink for this printer model really cheap so that consumers will purchase the machine. That is rare in the printing industry. The Xerox Phaser 8860 Color Printer is a solid-ink printer that makes sense for use in small offices, but probably not at home. The price tag is $2,700.
3. OKI Printing Solutions C8800n. For a home user, the printer price of the OKI Printing Solutions C8800n may be deterring at a whopping $3,200 in some stores. But what makes this expensive printer worth it despite its price tag is that it can print in tabloid size. It is perfect for offices where there is a solid demand for large size printing.
If you think the printers listed above are expensive, you probably have not heard of the $20,000 printer yet. Yes, there is a printer that could have siphoned five figures out of your bank account if you have been interested in it. This ultra-expensive printer is none other than the special gold-plated HP LaserJet 1160 that was on show at the Gitex 2006 IT convention in Dubai. This is the most expensive printer in the world thus far.
The HP LaserJet 1160 normally sells for under $200, but this particular item is gold-plated. This really expensive printer was later on auctioned off by Hewlett-Packard, and proceeds went to charity.
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