[Pc_Support] Dell 3100cn Color LaserJet with PostScript and LPD for $329.40 shipped!

[Brian Ashe]

> Wife is in the market for a new color printer. 

Funny, I've been looking recently myself. (Note: I am
not Bryan's wife.) I was looking at a $500 model and a
$300 one. IIRC, one was some flavor of HP 2550. Had
networking but I didn't look at RAM, etc. I think it
was PostScript. Looking online, toner for 2550s is
$100 per color. For $500, it probably ships with
"starter rolls"--aka, half-empty. (Or half-full,
depending on your POV. :-) ) The $300 model was, I
think, from Brother, on sale at Office Depot. (Not
saying these are better, just giving you some
background.) Hadn't yet gotten 'round to checking it
out, just saw it in the Sunday paper sales flyers.

> But today, lo'n behold, the Dell 3100cn Color Laser
> was on
> sale for $329.40, about the same price as its 3000cn
> brotheren.

Sweet! Are these re-badged HPs? Where do you get
consumables? Dell? HP? Searching CompUSA.com for 'hp
3100' I see only black:
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=50170019&pfp=SEARCH
The same search at CDW comes up empty. I can't get
through to dell.com right now. Have you priced
consumables? What does it work out to, price-per-page?

> And
> we all
> know how India's--er, I mean Dell's support is.  ;->

FYI, I recently had the displeasure of going a couple
rounds with some Apple customer (not tech) support
people, all of whom had mild British accents. :-p 
Same everywhere, I suppose. (Though Dell brought their
Corporate support people back to TX, IIRC. Baby
steps...)



		
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