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Recommendations for an ALPS printer

Frank,

You didn't mention the extremely high heat that the Phaser needs to melt that crayon. I can't imagine the decal paper holding up to all that heat. I replaced the Phaser with an Okidata C9000. It is a truly amazing color laser. Colors are true, bright, and sharp. I can print everything possible including tabloid size 11 x 17 edge to edge. The cost per page is the lowest of any color laser on the market today. It's out of reach for home use. I am lucky to have it available for my decal printing.

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Count DeMoney
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It's actually not much higher than laser printer toner fuser temps - at least by the time it gets onto the paper. You can run laser printer safe transparencies through it. The decal paper I used (made by Tango Papa) goes through nicely.

It's good to know that - we replaced an old Apple color laser printer that was a pain to operate - with the Phasers. I'm getting tired of their lack of reliability and the very expensive operating costs, so I've been thinking of getting some nice color laser printers for work.

I use a small Minolta/QMS B&W laser printer to print heat transfer films for photoetch work, and for $75, it's been a great deal. I haven't looked at the output in detail, but there are some fairly nice toner based color laser printers for the home/small office that are not too expensive; if they're at all as trouble free as my B&W printer, they may be an option as well.

Frank

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Frank Henriquez

Hi It sounds loke a nice printer. One question. Does it print white?

Thanks

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Maverick

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