My husbend insisted if I am going to scrapbook we get an lazer printer. We bought an OKI data 7500? The colors are nice! the ink dose not smear ( even if you lick the page, uh long story). But the actual photos are not comeing out as clear as I would like and I keep haveing some strange problems with certaint green shades just not printing. Anyone use lazer printer? or did I get somthing that is not used for a good reason? It really is far more cheaper than an regular printer. my cost went from a dolor somthing an sheet ( 8.5x11 full ink page) to like 15 cents!!! The layouts for the most part are beautifull except those two hickups.

Not sure is it the same as using a xerox machine per say? Have you checked to see the longetivity of the prints? Intrested to see what the life of a laser print is.

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longetivity of the prints? I have no idea. Nope The final print is much difrent from any xerox ive used. Its glossy no matter what you print on. It dose use toner cartrages like an xerox. I like the color quality verry much, everything is soo bright! I found my problem with my green shade not printing, its too light for my printer. I just have to adjust my color saturation in photoshop but ill ask if there is an easyer way when I call them. I want to see if customer service can help with my photo fuzzyness. The sample we looked at in the store was printing pics of people crisp as if I were looking right at ya, so it has to be able to be worked out.

hmm.. do you realize that those laser carts cost about $170 a piece? The Oki is a great color printer.... but not for photo printing. It is primarily a business printer and excels at printing large documents on plain paper.. the inks are not rated as archival and unfortunately will fade quickly over time. Couple that with ink bleed on standard photo papers.. and that could be the source of any fuzziness. I hate to say it.. but you might want to invest in a cheap photo printer and use the laser for printing docs only. You can get a great Canon for under $150... Good Luck!

We checked when we bought the printer and it will cost $150 to replace all the carts. They are all individual. Considering I have printed over80 pages of full color and barly touched the ink I am satifyed. The ink fadeing is not good that really sucks. I wonder how long it takes? I still have my old printer but it was costing about $30 an cattridge and I was not even geting 20 pages. I am buying the lazer paper now.