Discussion: Laser Printer for map printing

Can anyone suggest a good mid range laser printer for map printing- available in UK.

Thanks

Hi Allan. No suggestion here, I'm afraid - I'm after the same for our club. I've put out another post without the UK question as that might have scared off some of our North American cousins. Angus

Not mid-range, but apparently produces offset quality maps - see Invisible Log's log.

I'm in the states, but for what it's worth -- I just paid under $500 for a Canon MF8380Cdw and really like it. Great color laser maps and ink costs are not too bad.

I use a XEROX 7750, bought it as Stirling Surveys had one, will print on PRETEX and SRa3. Close to being a commercial printer, easy to use

There is one on UK Ebay

Our club has a BSD account at Office Depot so we can print letter size copies for $0.30 and tabloid size copies for $0.60.

Our expiring printer is an Epson Aculaser C1100, which is about £300/$450. It's been really useful for printing basic maps cheaply at short notice for club events, but we could never use it for formal competition - anything above UK Level D.

There's a parallel thread running here: Good printer for self-printing maps for training events

If you want some sort of objective test of print quality, the IOF mapping commission has a test map (printtech2006.ocd, available from http://lazarus.elte.hu/mc/print-tech/index.html - I suggest you generate your own PDF from OCAD rather than use the IOF's version) that you can print with candidate printers. Your national federation should have copies of an offset-printed version for comparison.

In Tasmania, we use both laser and inkjet printers, but at the cheap end, inkjet will produce much better quality maps if you can live with its limitations. For inkjet printing, we use Canon HR101N paper (around 15 cents/sheet A4) which is inkfast (see sample just out of the sink after being fully immersed)
https://picasaweb.google.com/107113347193892536299...#

One caution: anecdotally, water from the sink somehow does not seem to attack ink as aggressively as sweat or rainwater does. I'm not sure why.

Good call J-J. There's also a lot of rubbing in an orienteering event. And one might suppose some slow absorption of water. I would think that finding a good/affordable laser is the way to go.

And some laser toner flakes off where the map is folded...