# Colour laser printer recommendations

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 21, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-laser-printer-recommendations/550997 "2010-08-21T21:27:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-laser-printer-recommendations/550997/1 "2010-08-21T21:27:41Z")

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I’m looking to buy a colour laser printer, the primary purpose of which is to print my SO’s PhD thesis, but will be used for general printing after that. It needs to be have a reasonably fast print speed, and decent photo-printing abilities, without breaking the bank. I’m looking for less than £200; probably $300 or so. I think it also makes sense to have individual colour cartridges, since I suspect a lot of them will be used during said thesis printing.

Anyone have suggestions of printers they’ve used, or suggestions of ones to avoid?

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**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2010, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/colour-laser-printer-recommendations/550997/2 "2010-08-21T22:24:35Z")

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A few people in my office have the HP Color LaserJet CP1515n, which is around £200 at [Amazon.co.uk](http://Amazon.co.uk). I don’t think we have a lot of history on it (as it’s a fairly new model) but it does have four separate cartridges. And there’s a Dell color laser printer at Amazon for about £120. (It’s a little amazing that you can get a color laser printer that cheaply now. I remember when they were a whole lot more.)