BuyerZone users' color printer requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their color printer purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of color printers other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: color printer purchasing requirements

"Would love to have auto-duplexor, folding cabilities capable of folding 11X17 into 3, perfect binding option for making our own catalogs in house, also if it had edge to edge printing with no margin for letter sized documents, we could print our own brochures. also low cost per print."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Manufacturing, Defuniak Springs, FL

"Would like to find printer with volume envelope feeding capabilities."
-- Accounting/Finance, Manufacturing, De Forest, WI

"Would like to save on buying ink-as for example a cartridge that is larger than usual."
-- Buyer, Health Care, Menominee, MI

"Needs to be able to print on glossy paper of at least 80 lb weight."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Lebanon, IN

"We will be building acase for this printer as it will be traveling with us,weight and speed are important."
-- Buyer, Travel/Hospitality, Bozeman, MT

"I am a SMALL BUSINESS. Only 1 user. I would like to spend BELOW $500. High output unecessary.I need high resolution photo quality reproduction for color brochures, and good speed for simple BW output. MUST INTERFACE WELL WITH BOTH PC AND MAC!Double sided not a must."
-- Buyer, Real Estate, Jersey City, NJ

"Could cut one printer to a Copier/Fax/Printer and the other one to a 11x17 printer (or larger)."
-- R&D, Telecom/Utilities, Buckley, WA

"Looking to print flyers and brochures in the neighborhood of 2 - 5,000 a month."
-- Educator, Education, Montgomery, AL

"Nedds to be a scanner, copier, fax machine, printer, and be able to prine about 2000 sheets per week."
-- Accounting/Finance, Health Care, Pasadena, MD

"Hi resolution; capacity to do black and white at faster speeds for ordinary daily printoutsMy office is in my home, on the second floor. So it has to be delivered upstairs."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Virginia Beach, VA

"A good quality, may not need on daily bais but from time to time we print projects and feel 15 cents per page how we are presently are doming things is too much. I would like to cut that expense to more than Half that."
-- Office Manager, Health Care, Gladwin, MI

"General office use for good quality copies with occasional color use mostly b/w."
-- Partner/Principal, Manufacturing, Knoxville, TN

"By day, I run a tax business, black & white is find. By night, quilting classes. When I'm printing designs, I need for them to be clear & in color."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Garden City, MI

"It must take roll paper and should not be wider than 17" and it needs to be fast."
-- Accounting/Finance, Other Business Services, San Jacinto, CA

"I need a printer that can handle legal size paper and of card stock weight."
-- Office Manager, Other Business Services, New Ulm, TX

"Must be able to handle minimum 80lb card cover stock. Minimum 600DPI."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Diamond Bar, CA

"Nice premium color, no runs or bleeding of ink. can print up to 500 brochure copies at a time."
-- Administrative Assistant, Biotech/Pharmaceuticals, Hollywood, MD

"Glossy- 80 pound cover paper, glossy 80 pound text paper.Business cards, brochures, booklet covers and pages, letterheads, all commercial printing."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Roundup, MT

"Sony UP-DR150 dye-sub thermal digital photo printer 4x6" also include supplies(paper, ribbon) price."
-- Buyer, Retail, Seattle, WA

"We need a *minimum* 600 x 600 dpi. We use up to 80lb paper. We also use alot of high quality images on our labels. That is the reason we are looking for a new printer. Our HP 4600 is starting to not have the memory capabilities to handle the images. We also like the fact that our 4600 can be upgraded with standard computer memory."
-- Office Manager, Manufacturing, Ferndale, MI

"High volume envelope printingPhotos/graphicsVarying paper weights including: greeting card stock, and vellum(If possible, poster size paper)."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Non-Profit, Seattle, WA

"Should be able to print on card stock. Also would like the 4-in-1 options with the copier, fax, and scanner included with the printer. An extra paper tray."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Columbus, OH

"We are a small video/graphic co wanting to branch to printing. we are looking for reasonable printers that are good quality that can meet our needs with capability to print high quality gloss and uv if we have to spend more we will but thats our interest to do posters business cards flyers at high resolution."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Ft Worth, TX

"2 trays (1 for legal and 1 for letter with a bypass or optional tray to use 11x17)fax, copy and scan (all in one)used for a small realtor company."
-- Partner/Principal, Real Estate, Hendersonville, TN

"Resolution should be around 2400x600dpi, network ready, have two peper trays, and at least 45,000 prints per month."
-- Administrative Assistant, Financial Services, Irvine, CA

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