All in One Printers

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R Q

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My old Brother all in one has finally started giving problems and it's $150-$250 to repair it. I need an all in one color print, Fax, Copy, Scan. Of course I want wireless/Bluetooth. Looking at Office Depot and not seeing much Brother anymore, mostly HP and some Epson. Do y'all have any personal recommendations?
 
Not color, but I have been super happy with a Canon MF445dw I bought last year. Monochrome laser. Scan/Copy/etc work very well, and menus make sense. I'd imagine good results with their similar range color printers.
 
I’ve had several brands. Not much luck with any. They all crapped the bed pretty quick. I’ve got an HP now that will still scan/fax but the printer quit. I’ll keep an eye on this thread to see what’s reliable as I need one as well.
 
After reading many reviews and the prices of comparable units, I may have mine repaired. It's been a great unit until it started acting up with paper jams. I got it new in 2016
 
I have this one at work and at home (for work). I go through about a ream/week on both, and I replace toner about once every 6-9 months...been going just fine (knock on wood) for the last 2 years. Converted most of the small office printers to these as well, about a year ago. That said, I expect most new technology to only last 3 years, anything after that is just a bonus.

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Brother Business MFC L8900CDW Wireless Laser All In One Color Printer - Office Depot

Keep business moving forward with the Brother MFC L8900CDW Laser Printer. Fast high quality printing and copying helps you meet deadlines and deliver professional looking results and wireless capability makes it easy to connect from your computer or mobile device. Thanks to advanced security...
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Like everyone I've thrown more printers away than I can remember....have had a canon mf244dw for the last 4-5 yrs. Don't consider anything but a laserjet--I print boxes of paper through this thing and the ink cartridge could care less. I can leave it sitting for 2 months and still works like a new ink cartridge. I had another one I put in the shop, same model with reams of paper through it still on original cartridge.
Canon mf series laserjet is where it's at.
 
I had an All-in-one HP Office Pro. For several years, it worked great & I liked the XL ink sizes. But it started giving trouble. No on wanted to fix it, I can buy 3 for that 1. So I bought a Cannon Mx492. And got what I paid for! Small ink containers, & it has a lot of problems picking up the paper. Boss has the same thing in the employees room, & it works the same way! :shaking:
 
I got a Cannon MF642Cdw from Best Buy middle of last year. Been good so far.
 
As to color vs. b/w....got tired of ink being dried out all the time. I do a lot of photography, and had a nice photo printer, and if it went a week or two without printing, I had to tear it down and clean the nozzles, etc. So much for going on vacation for more than a few days.

Now, I got the mono laser. Any color printouts (charts, graphs, color text) I need, I send to officemax and pay the man. Pass-around photo prints (4x6) go to Walgreens, and nice prints usually go to Bay Photo. I think I am spending less money overall now, and saving time.
 
DSM Turbos said:
Docusign!

And people still print out presentations? Guess i'm so disconnected because I work in Tech.
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Pretty much everyone I know not under 45 still wants a good ol hard copy so they can write notes and manually red line if needed. Which are basically every board of directors or customer decision maker I deal with.
 
Having spent my early days as a printer tech, I will only buy HP Laserjets. There isn't a Laserjet I can't fix (although it might not be worth it).

I have seen them all, ink jets constantly have nozzle issues. Of the ink jets though, Brother probably makes the best now. Epson's suck.
 
The HP Laserjet Pro M281 series has worked for the business for many years. Geting harder to get ahold of due to logistics issues these days. Been siting on these for almost a decade. A few in dusty environments. No issues. Cartridges have great off brand support on Amazon that last longer pages than the HP brand ones for 3 times the cost. Theyve worked with pc and mac just fine for all three functions, including AirPrint
 
UTfball68 said:
Pretty much everyone I know not under 45 still wants a good ol hard copy so they can write notes and manually red line if needed. Which are basically every board of directors or customer decision maker I deal with.
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My new job doesn't even really use email very much, they have moved to 90% of work being done on slack. Guess that is why there aren't too many older people :laughing:

I have derailed the thread enough now!
 
We used to do a ton of stuff for the church, so the church supplied the equipment and ink.
So, after burning through printers, we looked at it from the other end.
We started buying consumer grade copiers that could network and do printer duties.
Saved money all the way around and much more versatile ..... just a thought.
 
Lizooki said:
We used to do a ton of stuff for the church, so the church supplied the equipment and ink.
So, after burning through printers, we looked at it from the other end.
We started buying consumer commercial grade copiers that could network and do printer duties.
Saved money all the way around and much more versatile ..... just a thought.
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FIFY ;)
 
Nope .... trust me, we were not spending that money.
Cheap commercial units start at $500 and quickly go up.
Anything cheaper is consumer grade, no matter who you buy it from.
It's been a few years and Covid has beat up my memory cells a bit .... but I'm thinking we looked for $300 er so units, get them on sale $250-ish.
I don't even know what printers cost now.
It just seem that if it was meant to be a copier first, with the other things added on, it ran better, longer.
 
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