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08-21-2019, 02:03 AM | Topic Starter |
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Printer advice
I'm looking into replacing my old Brother all in one wifi printer. The thing doesn't print when any one of the four colors run out of ink. To be honest, I only need monochrome as printing in color is a waste of time for what we use it for.
While I liked the printer at first, I found the drivers to be a tremendous strain on any PC I installed it on. Caused slow boot up times. The android app sucks as well. What printers have you found that have reasonable ink prices and just plain work. I'd still like an all in one for scanning and copying and love being connect via a phone app and isn't a Brother. |
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08-21-2019, 01:41 PM | #2 |
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08-21-2019, 01:43 PM | #3 |
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I got an HP laser one from staples a few years ago. I decided to spend some money on it and try to keep myself off the bottom end stuff.
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08-21-2019, 01:58 PM | #4 |
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I have to deal with lots of different printers. They're all a pain in the ass. There's really not any single model or even a single manufacturer I'd recommend as being much more dependable than others. HP used to be my first recommendation, but their quality has went downhill quite a bit over the last decade.
How much do you print? If you can get over the initial price point, I'd recommend looking at some of the cheaper laserjet printers instead of an inkjet. Inkjet printers are pretty much disposable pieces of shit these days.
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I've always had decent luck with Brother lasers for basic home use. It's been years since I bought one (mine's lasted 5+ years now), but here's a black-and-white version, and here's a color version just to give you the idea. |
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08-22-2019, 10:10 AM | #7 |
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Printers these days are shit. The quality really has gone downhill. I've had three that won't feed the paper for shit. Ink cartridges are expensive, and run out extremely quickly. Fish is right, look into laserjets, but be careful there too, because a lot of them are shit, too.
HP used to be good. Now they are shit. I hope someone has a good answer for you in this thread, because I'd love to hear that someone is making good printers. |
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FedEx/Kinko's. But I rarely print much.
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08-22-2019, 02:08 PM | #9 |
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I use a Sawgrass Virtuoso SG400 sublimation printer at my work and it's pretty good. But that's a $500-$600 sublimation printer so it doesn't really apply to this.
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08-22-2019, 03:59 PM | #10 |
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get a LASER monochrome printer that takes the toner Brother TN730 *standard yield ~1300 pages or TN760 high yield ~3000 pages. Prob find a printer around 130-180 price range that will have decent speeds w/ auto feeder/copy/scan/fax/wireless
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I use two printers in the office, a Brother HL-2280DW Laserjet. Works great. Never ever had a problem with it and ive been using for at least 2+ years now. Maybe 3+, not sure.
Then i also have Cannon G4210. I would highly recommend the cannon as well if you plan on printing in color. It uses re-fillable ink tanks that last substantially longer than ink cartridges. I've had it for over a year now and have not yet needed to refill the ink tanks. I use it to print our flyers, instructions etc here at the shop. Could not be happier with it. When buying a printer, understand that printers themselves are cheap and relatively disposable. It's the ink that makes all the $$$. With the Cannon, you get a true long lasting color printer, and when you need to refill the ink, the ink bottles are a helluva lot cheaper than cartridges. I mean, if you plan on going color you simply have to buy an Ink-Tank type printer. They're soooo much better that buying any other color-ink printer is just flat dumb. https://www.amazon.com/Canon-PIXMA-G...gateway&sr=8-2
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The ink-tank printers solve all those problems. Like i said, i've had mine for over a year now and have yet to refill any of the inks. Supposedly you can get 6,000 pages of color prints on one ink cycle. BUT, it is an Ink-jet, not a laser-jet, which means it still takes awhile to create a print. Compared to my Brother Laser-Jet it's slow as dick. But that's why i run both depending on the need. It's great for us as a small business because now i can give customers full color instructions for our products without costing an arm and a leg, or needing a print shop to run us off copies, which is also expensive. It allows for better presentation in all of our documents, invoicing etc. And for things that don't require a top-notch presentation we just run the laser jet.
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