Colour laser printers and photos?

[Chad Leigh -- ObjectWerks Inc]

On May 2, 2007, at 10:52 PM, Andrew Darlow wrote:

> Hi Ashley:
>
> I have used a few different color lasers and with good paper like  
> the ones linked to below, you can get semi-gloss images that look  
> very  much like photos. The Konica Minolta Magicolor laser and Dell  
> color lasers (3100cn and similar) are both great choices.


My Konica Minolta does photos as well as any inkjet I have tried -- I  
don't use it for that but tried some tests -- on regular good quality  
laser paper.  Magicolor 5x40 I think -- cannot remember what x is.  
Has the special photo mode. (not all K-M printers do).  I  have not  
tried special paper as I send my photos out.  But for quickies and  
flyers and newsletters and stuff the embedded photos look better off  
the Magicolor Konica Minolta printer than any inkjets I have and I  
have a "high end" (= several 100$ made for photo printing) HP inkjet  
that is like 8 color as well as an EDpson 6 color printer.

Again, I have not tested the K-M specifically for photos on special  
paper but have printed flyers and newsletters a stuff with embedded  
photos and they look better.  And cheaper.  I don't know how much I  
get out of the color toner but I have printer a LOT of full color  
total page cover sales flyers [whole page was printed on in dark  
colors -- no white paper left -- not your typical color printout] and  
am still on the original toner.   It keeps warning me about being low  
on toner but keeps on printing without any noticeable effects.

I also logged into the printer and turned down the coverage numbers  
for each color to save toner and the flyers keep printing out the  
same before and after.

Chad