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Buy.com has the Konica Minolta Magicolor 3730DN Color Laser Printer for $179 with free shipping. Full-featured printer has gigabit ethernet connectivity, 25ppm, 120,000 monthly duty cycle, automatic two-sided duplex printing.
$179
it's not gigabit.
both buy.com and konicaminolta.us say fast ethernet ("Fast Ethernet" and "Fast Ethernet (10/100BaseTX)" respectively).
not that i'm out to disprove bensbargains, but i was looking into the printer because a color laser with automatic duplexing and ethernet at this price point is alluring, but it's host-based GDI and not PS/PCL.
Gigabit wouldn't help anyway.
Check the price of toner before being allured
Bulk toner refills with reset microchip are $138 a 4 pack set on eBay or $42 each color. Not bad for a color laser when you consider they're 5K page refills.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=3730DN+toner
If you want cost per page to be much lower you'll have to settle for B&W printers.
don't forget the reset chips.
I've also bought refilled toner carts for my KM (5430DL) and the printer caught on and told me Unusable cart.
I swapped chips, put old orig back in, searched high and low. I drew the line at some point and bought another orig with no more risk or time expended on my part.