Help: Which All In One Printer - Scanner - Fax - Copier to buy?

[christopherojeda]

I've been wanting to get one of these and wondered if anyone could help me out tell me where I can get a good price (with coupons if possible) and which ones they have had good experience with or heard good things about?

 

[iamwiz82]

we have a few of the cheapies at work:

The HP G85
The Xerox 940
The Lexmark X83

The HP G85 is by far the best of those types. The others feel cheap when handling. I really like the quality too. The only issue is that it is on the slower side.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

For a home user, speed usually isnt' a big deal because the work load for the printer will be minimal. Quality and price are far more important IMO.

 

[christopherojeda]

True, quality and performance are what are most important to me. Do you know if you sacrifice either of those two because of the integration. I mean I know HP scanners and printers are pretty high end (if you buy those models) so in making them integrate and work toegether are they any less high end (if I buy a better all in one)? I think I don't want to spend more than $500.

 

[iamwiz82]

The Xerox and Lexmark are both exptremely cheap, under $250, and it shows. They HATE being shared. If you want to network printers, stick with the HP.

 

[cipher00]

I've got an HP Officejet K60 that works very well. NB, if you have a home network, this thing will not live up to its complete potential since it absotively posilutely wants to be directly connected to a pc...print servers just don't cut it. (It's fine as a printer, but if you want other stuff with pc interconnectivity you have to hook it up USB or parallel and install the overly helpful software.)

I found one on Pricewatch for around $200 incl s/h. Ink cartridges aren't cheap, tho.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

I would avoid Lexmark due to the low quality of their printers, and I would also avoid Brother due to their lousy and odd driver support.

 

[Texmaster]

HP G85. I love mine