Laser Printer Recommendation?

[Illusio]

Looking to buy a new printer for the home office. Needs to be network accessible, color and BW, laser printer. Also need to be able to print 11x17. Don't care about other things like fax or scanner. Fine if they have it, not a requirement. Mac compatible.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[nerp]

Always do well with Brother products.

 

[Illusio]

Any specific one you'd recommend?

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Any specific one you'd recommend?

Not really - mostly because they last so long, you can't buy the ones I've had personal experience with.



11x17 Color Laser is an expensive proposition regardless of brand. Brother doesn't actually make one, as near as I can find.

Xerox Phasers are pretty good, but expensive. What's the budget?

 

[nerp]

Sorry, I was thinking B&W lasers.

 

[corkyg]

... 11x17 Color Laser is an expensive proposition regardless of brand. Brother doesn't actually make one, as near as I can find. Xerox Phasers are pretty good, but expensive. What's the budget?

I second that. Once you move into 11x17 color format, you are in another plateau with few bargains. Those are usually business funded.

 

[shortylickens]

Xerox.

Color and 11x17 means you dont wanna screw around with something cheap.

Used to be a time I'd recommend HP but those days are gone.

 

[rchunter]

Love Xerox. Still have a tabloid size dye-sub (Phaser 480X) that still works great. My main everyday printer is a Phaser 8560 solid ink.

 

[FFM]

Check this site for useful information. I'm looking for one too vs the new Epson inkjet technology.

http://www.printershowcase.com/index.aspx

 

[Compman55]

I know its old, but maybe try to find a nice low page count HP Color Laserjet 5550dn. Really awsome and better than anything new...... If not, definatly trust the advice of printer showcase. Very good folks.

 

[Puffnstuff]

While I'm not willing to pin down anything specific I will tell you to buy a business class model which has a higher capacity toner cartridge. Price replacements for whatever model you are considering along with sheet capacity for each one so you can calculate the long term costs associated with it. My printer is very old, hp cm2320nf mpf, and is cheaper to operate since the cartridges have a higher capacity vs non business models. Why pay all that money for a low toner capacity consumer model when a business model cartridge costs about the same and offers several times the print capacity per cartridge. If you go with 3rd party replacement cartridges you can expand upon your savings. I can get all 4 toner cartridges from a 3rd party for less than what one hp cartridge costs and the print quality is the same.

 

[Compman55]

Another thing to add, is that new is not always better. An older "well made" laser printer will last double or triple the lifespan of the new garbage. Lets use a brand new washing machine as comparison, you are lucky to get 7 yrs out of one before the circuit board, pumps, or motor fails, yet the old ones lasted 20+ yrs. At the end of the day they do the same thing, make you cloths clean. The printer does one thing, "print". Albeit the newer ones are faster.........

 

[shortylickens]

Yeah there was a time when people relied on home printers so the manufacturers had to compete on quality and value.

Now it seems many of them put out garbage because they just dont care anymore.

 

[Thump553]

Another vote for Brother. Pretty much rock solid and-a huge bonus-they take generic toner cartridges. Most printer companies use the Kodak camera model-give away the camera and charge an arm and a leg for film.

I print closings so my printers get a pretty good workout.

 

[tamm]

BROTHER WHERE ART THOU


$5-10 replacement toner FTW

 

[stockwiz]

I have a brother HL L2380DW I got on black friday a year or two back when they were a new model with little reviews and it works great.