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So, after testing out many different materials on two different printers, a laser and an Inkjet (Brother HL-L8360CDW and Epson Expression HD XP-15000), I have finally found that the best quality printer with the most consistent prints and color replication is the Inkjet I have. I'm not sure if this would be the same for all inkjets, over that if lasers, but that's certainly the case between these two. However, the compromise is obviously the fact that the Inkjet will go though ink faster than the laser will go through toner. As well as the fact that the Epson Expression HD XP-15000 chugs ink cartridges.

I was hoping to possibly come here to receive a recommendation on a good, high yield Inkjet printer that will produce the same quality prints I get from the Epson I use now, but with better cost per print. Just like anyone else, I would like to get my cost per print down, without having to skimp on quality.

Any suggestions that anyone would like to share would be greatly appreciated.

Edited by user Saturday, August 10, 2019 10:14:35 PM(EST)  | Reason: Title misspelling

I just wanted to give an update to this thread. After seeing the print quality of the Epson Expression HD XP-15000 and being satisfied with the results, the objective was to reproduce these results, but with a printer that would not consume so much ink, or where ink was more abundant. I am happy to say that I found this in the Epson ET-7700.

I have now gone through 5 printers; the Brother HL-L8360CDW, the Epson Expression HD XP-15000, the Canon PIXMA G4210, the HP Color LaserJet Pro M479FDW and now the Epson ET-7700. The Canon did pretty well, the HP was pretty much the same quality as the Brother, but the one that reigns supreme is the ET-7700, for sure. All of the Laser printers I have used, no matter what setting they were set to, they did not print high quality, pixel perfect labels.

Not only is the ET-7700 a workhorse, but it also prints fast (much faster than the HD XP-15000), it prints high quality labels that rival that of the HD XP-15000 and it not only has Ink tanks that hold a butt ton of Ink, instead of cartridges, but it also comes with two bottles of each Ink in the box. Also, it has a total of 5 ink colors instead of only 4.

Overall, I am extremely pleased. It took a lot of time and money, but this thing prints crip and near pixel perfect on the weatherproof gloss, the weatherproof matte and the polyester labels. To fill the tanks with a total capacity of apparently 30 ink cartridges, it only costs $72 for a set of ink bottle refills. I have not estimated the cost per page yet, but a rough calculation, even at a very high coverage percentage, is equal to pennies.

I hope this will be able to help someone else in their journey to find a decent printer with a low cost to print.

P.S. I used to buy my labels from a label printing company that print out very VERY nice labels. Not only does this printer print labels that are just as high quality looking on the material I have purchased from Online Labels, but the cost to print them has now been decreased by about $0.30 per label. VERY SATISFIED! :-)

Edited by user Thursday, August 15, 2019 2:10:06 PM(EST)  | Reason: typos

Thank you so much ion! Any recommended settings for printing? Print quality optimization is new to me for labels. Anyone else know of any resources they can point towards?

same labels and printer as ion.

Also, does anyone have experience with a good cutting machine for stickers? The next step for us is to put the sticker sheets in a Cricut or other cutting device.