You're asking for a low quality printer that will break in a year....
Spend the bucks and get a good quality laser 11x17 printer from HP. Then
find an inexpensive fax/copy/scanner for about $400. The HP will last for
many many years and if you want the fax, scanner, and copier to last many
years also, you'd get individual, quality, products there as well. Or you
could get a high quality all in one center, but you're looking at at least
$8000 (starting price) for one of those.
Those multi-function (all-in-one) stations are fine for home use, but at
even ~26,000 prints a year (that's just prints not copies, faxes, scans,
etc) those all-in-one stations will just fall apart. They are not intended
for corporate use and IMO, they barely make it into the SOHO market.
We just got a color laser here. It was about $4000-$5000 for one that
handles 17x11 (basically when you are talking about these corporate laser
printers, it's just a matter of adding a tray). We got the Lexmark C910.
The color cartridges (there's 3 of them) are about $300 each and can handle
about 14,000 copies each. The B&W cartridge is about $200 and can handle
the same capacity. So for you and depending on how much color you printed,
you'd be spending about $1000 every 6 months just for cartridges.
Hit www.hp.com, www.epson.com, www.lexmark.com and www.xerox.com and see
what is available as well as pricing info. Once you decide on what you want
you can search the web for better pricing most of the time.
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Kevin Nehls