Printer help..
 

There are certain PDFs at work that keeps printing in colour. We have set the printing preferences as black and white but it's not registering. Our printers are also set to print in black and white by default. I don't think our pdf is "locked" or anything but I can't find out how to fix it..

OK NVM. I found out our problem - it's just our silly old printer that doesn't know what black and white means. It works on the other printer.

So my next question is.. I don't know what brand to start looking at for a small office printer! I'm looking for a colour laser duplex printer (not multifunction) that would be able to print heavy paper often.......

People seem to suggest HP a lot but I reaaaaaaaaaally feel reluctant to get a HP because I don't like our HP inkjet at home. I don't like the software. But I dunno if it'll be different with lasers..

I've got a cheap konica-minolta color laser printer, it's just a basic model and works ok but the toner is outrageously expensive. Now I check toner prices before I buy a printer.

I've had/used several brother b/w laser printers and they seem to work pretty good.

If a printer spec says

250 x 80gsm per tray + 100 sheet multi-purpose tray

Does that usually mean it can take thick paper?? Our current printer's specs doesn't specify the max paper weight it can take, while some I've looked at (like HP printers) would state it... so I'm gusesing the ones that don't state it just means they can take thick paper...

Looking at this
http://www.samsung.com/au/consumer/p...620ND/XSA-spec

Yeah, our current toners are expensive... AU$95 for the black one where the approximate paper yield (or w/e the correct term is) is 1000 pages.. but this samsung one I'm looking at, it's AU$113ish for 5000 pages.

Except I'm not sure about samsung printers..

I did look at brother ones too, but the colour laser ones I looked at don't support heavy paper that I need to print every week =(

I wonder if that spec is telling you you can fit 250 pages of 80 gsm paper...?

multi-purpose trays usually mean envelops / photo paper I think..

So from what I gather, it doesn't seem like it's specifying a paper weight...

Yeah. I think it means I can fit in 250 80gsm normal paper, but if I want, I can fit in 100 instead fire multpurpose? I'm just hoping the multi purpose includes my thick paper LOL

except another site says the model is kinda old so I dunno if I should look for a newer one... Looking at HP now. Except not all HP support A4 paper

Look for printers that say 'cardstock' as one of the paper types it can handle.

Cardstock can be anywhere from 120 to 300 gsm. The highest being similar to business card stock.

I'm sure if you feed only 1-2 at a time it shouldn't have any problems as long as you set it up properly. The thing with cardstock is that if printers cannot handle it the paper either jams or the ink does not stay on the paper.

Yeah, sometimes I have to print 30-50 thick paper stuff in a row at work hahaha I think that samsung one would be able to do it though.. sounds like our old lexmark printer.

Whenever a customer brings in weird paper I put it through 5 or so at a time. Whatever the depth of the tray is, put in half that... should be alright.