Need Help. Looking for a good Home Office Laser Printer/Scanner

[MtnHusker]

InkJet Printer decided to crap the bed on me. Thinking about getting a Laser Jet. Anyone have recommendations or experience with them? It's for my home office and I probably make about 25 copies a week on average. Scan the occasional documents. I'm a tard when it comes to technology so simpler is better. And here is a picture for your troubles. TIA

 

[turek420845]

InkJet Printer decided to crap the bed on me. Thinking about getting a Laser Jet. Anyone have recommendations or experience with them? It's for my home office and I probably make about 25 copies a week on average. Scan the occasional documents. I'm a tard when it comes to technology so simpler is better. And here is a picture for your troubles. TIA
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[hothouse_corn]

Brother @MtnHusker, we've been very happy with our Brother multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. It is seven years old and dusty, but still works like new. Seems to handle third-party toner cartridges that are much cheaper than OEM with no difference in print quality between toner manufacturers. Prints both sided in two passes, scans both sided in one pass. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sorry for the (hopefully) helpful post. An alternative to look into is the Epson inkjets with the ink tank instead of cartridge. I think cost per page for these rivals the Brother laser with OEM ink, but don't have firsthand experience with them.

 

[tman87]

Brother @MtnHusker, we've been very happy with our Brother multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. It is seven years old and dusty, but still works like new. Seems to handle third-party toner cartridges that are much cheaper than OEM with no difference in print quality between toner manufacturers. Prints both sided in two passes, scans both sided in one pass. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sorry for the (hopefully) helpful post. An alternative to look into is the Epson inkjets with the ink tank instead of cartridge. I think cost per page for these rivals the Brother laser with OEM ink, but don't have firsthand experience with them.

My HP ink-jet has been working poorly for years... but I still keep using it. Everytime I go look for a newer one to upgrade to, the sticker shock tells me to continue to get by with my more than well used ink-jet (that literally has an issue printing either the top or bottom of the page clearly often - not sure why it decides to flake out on either the top or bottom, regardless of new or not print cartridge). So I am also interested in good recs on a quality, but affordable new printer option ITT.

 

[Grits and Gravy]

Brother @MtnHusker, we've been very happy with our Brother multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. It is seven years old and dusty, but still works like new. Seems to handle third-party toner cartridges that are much cheaper than OEM with no difference in print quality between toner manufacturers. Prints both sided in two passes, scans both sided in one pass. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sorry for the (hopefully) helpful post. An alternative to look into is the Epson inkjets with the ink tank instead of cartridge. I think cost per page for these rivals the Brother laser with OEM ink, but don't have firsthand experience with them.

Was going to post something like this. I've had a Brother multifunction for a couple of years and have been pretty happy with it.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

need to take all those ladies and have them photo copy their tushys on your new copier thanks gbr!

 

[Tell_Sackett]

I have an Epson eco tank and from an ink cost perspective, it destroys HP. Comes with like 2 years of ink. I would not consider it for a dedicated photo printer but it does great on documents.

 

[HuskerDocCo]

I have an Epson eco tank and from an ink cost perspective, it destroys HP. Comes with like 2 years of ink. I would not consider it for a dedicated photo printer but it does great on documents.

what about photocopies of ladies tushys?! Thanks wow yum!

 

[Tell_Sackett]

what about photocopies of ladies tushys?! Thanks wow yum!

I'd guess a bit washed out... Gingers will look a bit more pasty.

 

[Jim14510]

I don't even get printer cartridges anymore. The cartridges are the same price as the printer. Just throw it out and get a new one.

 

[MtnHusker]

Brother @MtnHusker, we've been very happy with our Brother multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. It is seven years old and dusty, but still works like new. Seems to handle third-party toner cartridges that are much cheaper than OEM with no difference in print quality between toner manufacturers. Prints both sided in two passes, scans both sided in one pass. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sorry for the (hopefully) helpful post. An alternative to look into is the Epson inkjets with the ink tank instead of cartridge. I think cost per page for these rivals the Brother laser with OEM ink, but don't have firsthand experience with them.

I have the Brothers Business Smart Series. Been a good little unit for me but for the Love of Gawd it picks the worst times ever to run out of ink. It's Murphy's Law. Scanner decided it didn't like linking up with my computer and printer is saying out of Ink even though I have tried numerous new cartridges. Times for me to go Office Space and get the bat out.

 

[djw004]

Need color or B/W only?

 

[MtnHusker]

Need color or B/W only?

Color as I don't discriminate, haha. Gotta have color for work

 

[djw004]

Brother @MtnHusker, we've been very happy with our Brother multifunction printer/scanner/copier/fax. It is seven years old and dusty, but still works like new. Seems to handle third-party toner cartridges that are much cheaper than OEM with no difference in print quality between toner manufacturers. Prints both sided in two passes, scans both sided in one pass. Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

Sorry for the (hopefully) helpful post. An alternative to look into is the Epson inkjets with the ink tank instead of cartridge. I think cost per page for these rivals the Brother laser with OEM ink, but don't have firsthand experience with them.

Have an Epson Inkjet in our office and it's incredible and very reasonable to run. Economical and quality. Link is the little brother of what we have - but we do a lot of larger format printing:

EcoTank ET-15000 All-in-One Cartridge-Free Supertank Printer | Products | Epson US

The EcoTank ET-15000 wireless all-in-one offers Cartridge-Free Printing with easy-to-fill supersized ink tanks. Save up to 90 percent on ink with low-cost replacement bottles — as little as 1 cent per color ISO page vs. 20 cents with ink cartridges1. This all-in-one delivers vibrant prints up to...

epson.com

For Laser we have a HP LaserJet M527 but I think that's older now - below is a COLOR option. It's reliable and has a lot of connection/print/scan options:

https://www.hp.com/us-en/shop/pdp/hp-color-laserjet-pro-mfp-m479fdw