I am looking for a colour (or LED) laser printer for a small
home/office in England. I want to pay between £400 - £500. However, I am
struggling with the footprint which needs to be less than: width 45cms
and 45cms deep - height not so important.  I need good resolution for
sharp, crip business proposals and some future expandability. Toner
cost is a consideration as print volume is reasonably high. I have
already looked at the PC world site, Technomatic, OKI and Dabs and am
benchmarking against something like the Samsung CLP 500 or Oki c7200.
Perhaps, there is no such thing as a `compact` colour laser in which
case I will need to compromise somewhere.

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Clarification of Question by raybrighton-ga on 05 Sep 2004 05:03 PDT

By `footprint`, I mean the physical dimensions of the printer when
placed on a table top.

I think you need to reword your question. Almost all printers are less
than 45cm, unless you mean slightly less. Printers typically print in
two dimemions. You mentioned width, deep and heigth. Do you want to
print holgrams, project holigrams into the air? I have not heard the
term foot print used in conection with printers. Would you consider
1/20 th cubic meter compact? 50 cm by 50 cm by 20 cm tall?

For low copy cost, Kyocera is generally considered to be very good. On
the subject of expandability, many lower cost models (of all
manufacturers) are "Windows" or "GDI" printers and won't work with
Linux and other operating systems (like WindowsXP in some cases :-)

Owain

Owain

Many thanks for your comment - I will check out Kyocera 
Ray

Consider the Hewlett Packard LaserJet 2550 printer.  Dimensions are
48x32x45 cm and 22 kg weight.  Internet cost about 500 US$.  Simple
installation and operation.  Print speed 20 ppm black and 4 ppm color.
 Network model available.

I have printed 9000 pages for book manuscript with excellent results. 
Best supply costs are at Provantage.com