printer recommendation request

[Walter Vaughan]

John Esak wrote:

>2) I used to go through the 3 colored sheets thing to imitate and old
>pre-printed set of colored forms. Yellow, Green and Blue. It was a huge
>pain. Buying the different colored paper, loading one of the trays with
>reegular white when that was needed, etc.
>
JE beat me to this solution. Actually my staff has been beating it
into my head to think like this. If they really need three different
colored pieces of paper, then the least failure prone would
be to buy pre collated paper.

Multi-part Collated, Colored Laser Paper
    Paper Cost $0.12 per form
    Printer cost: instantly replaceable*

Printer with Three Trays
    Paper Cost $0.07 per form
    Printer cost: single point of failure+

So it comes down to $15/month difference in paper cost savings.
There is no way I can make the argument that even if someone
gave me a three tray printer that it makes sense. Eventually
something stupid is going to happen to it, and the cost for
just the replacement part that is going to have to be overnighted,
or the untrained finding someone who can debug a tray problem
is going to far exceed a low cost Brother or HP laser that anyone
can replace without any skill...

KISS

A single print command to make three copies *has* to be more
reliable than issuing a print job to three different print trays.

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wdv2

* meaning that any non-windows only printer that accepts PCL
can be poped in place with little or no technical expertise.

+ meaning you can't just grab another printer or run down
staples or bestbuy and be up and running within the hour.