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thestrangebrew1

thestrangebrew1

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For home/office use. Budget is maybe $150 tops, would like it to be sub $100 though if possible. IDK what are good brands now. We had a cheap HP that was pretty much a syphon for ink, and for some reason the scanning function stopped working a while back so we stopped using it altogether. I actually don't even know where it's at at this point. We might've gave it to my sis-in-law or something. Anyways, fire away!
 
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IronWing said:
Unless there is a reason you need color, I'd go with a black/white laser printer over an inkjet. I like Brother's laser printer/scanner/copiers. They just work.
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Yep the only correct answer for printers is Brother. They are great for the price, reliable and reasonable toner refills. I'm on my second one in like 12 years. Even if you need color I'd get a color laser printer. Unless you need photo quality for some reason
 
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highland145 said:
@IronWing. +1

Brother refurb laser b/w all in 1...$125ish.

May be able to track down the site if you want.
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I bought a brand new Brother HL-L2395DW for under $90 last summer from Staples. These economical units go on sale every so often, and I believe the generic toners are reasonably cheap (but have form of "chip" based DRM nowadays).
 
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I have always bought Canon Laser all in ones.
The ease of buying the cheap, generic cartridges at around 10.00
each is the plus point. I am on my third printer as they seem to last
5-7 years before the fuser wears out. Cheaper to buy another printer
than replace the fuser.
This is the model I have now.
Canon ImageCLASS MF236n All in One - 134.00
Scanner, sheet feeder, takes easy to find 137 cartridges.

They also have the D570 for 144.98
 
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thestrangebrew1

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Ah I should’ve said it needs to be wireless. That Canon linked looks good but it isn’t wireless. I’ll check out the Brother models and see if any are on sale.
 
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The printer/scanner/fax I have has lasted forever. Ink cartridges are cheap (unlike HP). It supports LAN and WiFi and works with Android devices.
 
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Hans Gruber

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I 2nd, 3rd or 4th Canon. I have the 8280cw. Got it brand new all in for $140 6 or 7 years ago. It's as heavy and big as an aircraft carrier and I can get generic refills for for all the color toner and black toner for $40.

Canon Support for Color imageCLASS MF8280Cw | Canon U.S.A., Inc.

Find support for your Canon Color imageCLASS MF8280Cw. Browse the recommended drivers, downloads, and manuals to make sure your product contains the most up-to-date software.
www.usa.canon.com www.usa.canon.com

They have revised updated versions of it. The only thing it lacks is the built in duplexing. Those are rarely heavily discounted.

The old Canon slogan. Because image is everything.
 
Iron Woode

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last summer I bought a small business class Lexmark all-in-one monochrome laser printer. It works great.
 
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Iron Woode said:
last summer I bought a small business class Lexmark all-in-one monochrome laser printer. It works great.
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Lexmark became one of the most hated printer companies because they used to embed their printers with microchips that would only print with genuine Lexmark print cartridges. They do make good printers.
 
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esquared said:
I have always bought Canon Laser all in ones.
The ease of buying the cheap, generic cartridges at around 10.00
each is the plus point. I am on my third printer as they seem to last
5-7 years before the fuser wears out. Cheaper to buy another printer
than replace the fuser.
This is the model I have now.
Canon ImageCLASS MF236n All in One - 134.00
Scanner, sheet feeder, takes easy to find 137 cartridges.

They also have the D570 for 144.98
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250 sheet tray. Lame.
 
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What would be the recommendation for a color inkjet all-in-one in 2020? I still have my HP 2300dn laserjet that I bought new like 15 years ago. No wireless, but has ethernet and still works perfect, prints 1200 dpi and the toner cartridges last forever. Every once in a while I need color and to scan a few pages and my old HP AIO inkjet just died...
 
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IronWing said:
Unless there is a reason you need color, I'd go with a black/white laser printer over an inkjet. I like Brother's laser printer/scanner/copiers. They just work.
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Yeah I would not even look at inkjet, stick with laser. I have a Brother laser that I've had for over 10 years, I don't print a lot but it's on the original toner that came with it and still prints fine.

I kinda want to splurge and get a good colour one at some point as they have come quite down in price. I think I would find myself printing more if I could print in colour. Even photos with a laser will come out quite decently.
 
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I've had good experience with Canon ImageCLASS printer scanners. Upgraded a few years ago to the MF247DW model for its wireless capability, and it's going strong.
 
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highland145

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jwhorfin said:
"Five Individual Ink System"
Does it stop printing if one cartridge is empty?
Can you buy that one cartridge or all 5 only?
This is what's kept me buying crappy cheap HP's with only 2 cartridges, black and color. We rarely use color so...YMMV
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Screw that.
 
thestrangebrew1

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jwhorfin said:
"Five Individual Ink System"
Does it stop printing if one cartridge is empty?
Can you buy that one cartridge or all 5 only?
This is what's kept me buying crappy cheap HP's with only 2 cartridges, black and color. We rarely use color so...YMMV

Edit: the next will be laser for me I believe.
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From I've read, you can buy individual cartridges and it won't brick if you run out of a particular color. I was looking at some of the lower line Brothers and that seemed to be a common issue. If it were out of say yellow, it wouldn't work until you replaced it, even if you only needed b&w. That's f'ed up.
 
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thestrangebrew1 said:
Ah I should’ve said it needs to be wireless.
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Nothing that a $15 refurb Asus RT-N12/D1 router w/DD-WRT or better, FreshTomato, can't handle.

Assuming that the printer has wired ethernet, just set the router up as a wireless bridge or WDS node, and then plug the printer's ethernet into the router. Voila! Wireless!

I have a brother MFC-825JW or something like that, it's got ethernet and wifi, but only supports WPA1 Personal, not WPA2 Personal, so that's one reason why I've got it attached via ethernet to the router doing wireless bridge (WDS, in this case) duties back to my main router (also running FreshTomato).

I dunno, cheap, and it WFM.
 
jwhorfin

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Ok, awesome, just checking. My wife's company bought a Offcejet 8100 and it does brick if one is gone.
 
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STERKOFF said:
What would be the recommendation for a color inkjet all-in-one in 2020? I still have my HP 2300dn laserjet that I bought new like 15 years ago. No wireless, but has ethernet and still works perfect, prints 1200 dpi and the toner cartridges last forever. Every once in a while I need color and to scan a few pages and my old HP AIO inkjet just died...
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For scanning documents, download the HP Smart app. It takes a picture but auto-sizes to the document and adjusts so the paper Background doesn’t have any grey tones.

This summer I investigated “mega tank” printers. They have large ink bottles instead of cartridges.
While there doesn’t seem to be any perfect mega tank printer, we got an Epson ET-2750 this summer. For school work type printing it’s been good so far, but I won’t know about the ink bottle economy for a year or so.
 
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