Multifunction printer recommendations?
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Anything good on the market these days? Printers are always the devil and I don't need anything super fancy, but I do need something that just works. I don't mind paying for quality if that means I'm less likely to use the printer for target practice. Anyone have experience with Epson Ecotank printers?
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@CB fuck printers
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@Italia said in Multifunction printer recommendations?:
@CB fuck printers
Your input is valued yet unnecessary.
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@CB I've got a Brother MFC-L2750DW and it's been absolutely brilliant for the two years I've had it. I got so tired of buying expensive inkjet cartridges, dealing with shitty printing, having connectivity issues, etc. etc. with the $60 HP Officejets that everyone buys because they're cheap. I finally got fed up and just figured I'd stick with my grandfathers' philosophy: if I need it to work, it needs to be Japanese. The Brother always emails my scans right where I need them, prints instantly and is always connected, has crisp clean prints because it's a laser, and can even do double-sided prints and scans. I've never missed color printing and have replaced the toner once, though I'm probably a medium-duty printer user so if you print all day every day you may need more. The connectivity is good and reliable, but the touchscreen is really tiny though it's not too bad to use. The interface kind of reminds me of the interior of a Hino truck; unfashionable, but functional.
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I agree with @amoore100 if you are going HP, do the officejet Pro 8500. Been working well for my friend's small business, and he does a good amount of printing
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@CB
Our local consumer protection crew at www.choice.com.au tested a heap of the ecotank series (along with other Epson's and other brands - Brother, Canon, HP etc). The Epson EcoTank Photo ET-8500 was the highest recommended...and it's not cheap. They also recommended another three Epsons but their annual toner costs are orders of magnitude higher than the Ecotank series ($57 as opposed to $486 or $821)...Epson EcoTank ET-M2170 inkjet was just outside the recommended list. And the annual toner cost is less than 10 bucks...
Brother HL-L2350DW was the cheapest recommended printer that still had a low toner cost ($117).
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@CB I like Epson printers but make sure it has a usb port for scanning because I bought one by mistake that had a sd card instead
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@CB I went laser years ago and haven’t looked back. Nothing fancy - HP that you can pick up at Walmart. I need a new one right now since I sold mine before we moved. Laser toner cartridges are more expensive than ink but one lasts us a year or so vs replacing ink every couple months.
And multi-function is dead. I use Genius Scan on my phone. Need to make copies - scan to pdf with my camera and then print as many copies as I want from my phone.
And does anyone fax anymore?
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@CB I bought a black and white Canon multifunction laser printer. I got sick of dealing with replacing ink cartridges for the Epson and HP that I’ve had over the years. I’ve had the printer for two years and I’m still on the original toner cartridge. Best printer I’ve ever had. If I need something printed in color (which has never happened) I can print at work.
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@CB From what I know of HP officejets, as long as you're printing regularly, it'll work okay. My mom rarely printed, so the ink cartridges in her officejets would dry up and it would be cheaper to buy a new one....that would eventually have the same problem a year and a half later.
I moved her over to a Brother laser printer and haven't had to be concerned about ink since. Toner can be expensive, but the reliability and the perfect output, in my opinion, make up for it. One tip though...if you go this route, set the printer's IP address statically and set it up on your computer manually using a TCP/IP port. From what I hear, Brother's printer setup wizard is less than good.
Edit: you asked about Epson inkjets...and I don't know anything about them. Sorry.
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@CB Brother. Decent printers cheapish. The more expensive ones are fast and feature-rich. Serviceable. Well designed. Lackluster for photo printing but inexpensive to feed (per page cost) and reliable. The Brother stuff is truly geared toward small office and relatively high volume use at the expense of some image performance. Their laser printers are dead reliable, and color ones exist, but thier Inkjets are also quite robust and not as prone to the same print head problems others experience. If you need better photo printing and are willing to pay $$$ the HP and Epson stuff is pretty good, but they're all less reliable and more expensive to feed then the Brothers. Avoid cheap MFCs from HP and Epson.
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LASER.
fuck ink. we use exclusively Brother for any size printer that doesn't have wheels at the University I work at.
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@CB We've had a couple of Brother inkvestment tank printers for a couple of years. Ink lasts a long time, seems reliable. Scans to USB.
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I will second @amoore100 and say get the BROTHER! I also have a MFC-L2750DW (or similar), got it at the recommendation of another Oppo about 3-4 years ago, and its never let me down. I scan more than I print, but when I do print it hasn't let me down. The only downside is it doesn't print in color, but I haven't found that to be an issue yet.
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@CB Anyone that's bought decals from me has received a packing slip printed on my Brother laser printer that I bought for under $200. I just bought a new toner cartridge for $40. I've been through three previous HPs and an Epson. The Epson was okay (kind of), and if I ever have to deal with another HP printer, you might see a mushroom cloud of hate and fury appear above SE Michigan.
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@CB as others have said, the only way to leave inkjet woes behind for good is to buy laser. I bought a small workgroup color laser AIO from Okidata a good 10 years ago now and have fun probably 3000 pages through it, still runs like a top. It was maybe $350 at the time. Sadly Oki recently left the US market. Brother is the closest equivalent probably.
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@bbg2d was just about to recommend an Officejet 8600 (which funny enough is what's in the gif @CB posted).
We bought one in around 10 years ago and it still works just fine. Only in the last year or so did it really start to slow down on how fast it could print. But we don't print enough anymore to need a new printer.
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@CB said in Multifunction printer recommendations?:
@Italia said in Multifunction printer recommendations?:
@CB fuck printers
Your input is valued yet unnecessary.
I would argue necessary but unhelpful.
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We have an HP Officejet Pro 8630 which has been good for us, and we a Xerox Workcentre 6515 color laser which is a really nice device - makes great color prints.
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@amoore100 another vote for Brother. I have a low end laser. Works with built in OSX Drivers. Two sided is super nice to have, I use it all the time.
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I'm with @amoore100 on Brother printers. Print quality, functionality, support, reliability. I don't print a great deal, but I always pay the extra for Brother toner. And inexpensive up front.
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Also: haven't used ink in many years. Does anyone still use ink?
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@CB Unless you are getting it to print photos, just get a laser, don't waste your time/money with inkjets (even if you do want to print photos, you'd still probably be better off with a laser, and just paying for photo printing from a place with better printers).
I've got a Brother HLL2395DW, and also bought one for my mom. Both have worked very well.
Unfortunately, prices seem to have soared with the pandemic, I paid around $100 US for the ones I bought, but the past couple years:
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@CB The mid-tier Brother inkjet machines have been pretty good for me at home, although I'm convinced nothing on the consumer end of things is all that great outside an old school HP black and white laser printer.
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@ITA97 said in Multifunction printer recommendations?:
is all that great outside an old school HP black and white laser printer
Depends how old school you are talking about. Comments like this make me want to beat you about the head with the amazingly terrible HP LaserJet 5L and 6L (not really of course, but they were terrible, terribly built printers).
