Need to buy a Laser Printer. Which one?

I need a laser printer , because printing big pdf files with a conventional printer costs too much . so i am considering buying a laser printer , but i dont know which to buy.
It must be cheap , its cartudges must be cheap. and it must be reliable. I am considering its toner to be filled later.
I found two printers

Xerox Phaser 3110
HP laserjet 1000w

Xerox is 25dolars cheaper , its cartudges are cheaper and prints more . But i dont know much about Xerox products , are they reliable ? or as good as HP's?
Is Hp worth the extra money?

Any idea?

I got me an Hp Laserjet 1200 series model for $400 when it came out and it works like you wouldnt believe. The quality of print is awesome (much to expect from high quality Laserjet printers). That was a couple of years ago so the price probably has dropped down considerably by now. I recomend an HP printer to anyone! Truely a good buy. :cool:

I have a Samsung ML1440 and I love it. Its nice and fast, works with both my PC and Mac, and it was only $170 when I bought it. Makes nice crisp prints, I have no complaints so far. I've been doing a lot of printing and its still going on the start toner cart so I can't comment on toner expenses yet, but it seems pretty good to me :)

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Originally posted by TheLoneRebel
I have a Samsung ML1440 and I love it. Its nice and fast, works with both my PC and Mac, and it was only $170 when I bought it. Makes nice crisp prints, I have no complaints so far. I've been doing a lot of printing and its still going on the start toner cart so I can't comment on toner expenses yet, but it seems pretty good to me :)

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I forgot to mention the Samsung ML1440 is very affordable also. That is a very good printer with high quality prints. It is a good buy! :cool:

I don't know that I could recommend any Samsung products. We have some products that just rebadged Samsung and both engine models are notorious for having fuser problems. I can't say for sure whether Samsung has taken steps to correct this, but you may want to avoid Samsung since their long term costs and reliability are questionable in my mind.

Also, if you frequently print PDF files, a good recommendation is that you get a PostScript capable printer. PDF files are nothing but a big graphic, and that is what PS was made to handle. I have on multiple occasions seen PDF files that would not print all portions correctly, and some not at all. This was because the printer was using a PCL format, and it can run into issues with printing graphic files. I know this was the problem because on many of the occassions the printer in question had PS support but the customer was using a PCL driver. As soon as we had them use the PS driver, the PDF printed fine.

Just some things to keep in mind.

I dont know anything about postscript thing. All i can pay is around 200usd. So the printers i wrote are the candidates , because others are expensive for me. There are cheap Lexmark and Epson Printers ,but i didnt see them being sold online.

Go to eBay and find some used stuff for low prices.

Like un4given said, a PostScript-compatible printer would be better for the task, but you're not going to find one in that price range.