[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Sat Sep 7 11:59:56 EDT 2019


Brother. Several models and a range of prices. Good Linux support. Consumables are not horribly priced.

On September 7, 2019 7:46:36 AM MDT, Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>Hi,
>We've got an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281cdw.
>It's worked.... okay.  It often "crashes" in the middle of a print job,
>only printing like have a page, or stopping mid-way through a "large"
>PDF
>(where "large" can be as small as 3-4MB).  Sometimes it just falls off
>the
>wifi network (I don't really blame the printer for this).
>
>We paid around $300 for the printer from Costco a year or so ago.
>The toner is running out, and replacement toner is....  $300.
>
>So we're thinking of just replacing the printer instead of paying for
>more
>toner for a printer that, frankly, we don't like.
>
>We USED to have a Xerox that we loved, until it started ghosting and
>the
>paper jammed.
>
>We are looking for:
>-- Color (preferably LaserJet)
>-- Ethernet
>-- Duplex
>-- scanner w/ document feeder
>-- works on Mac and Linux (I'm happy pulling a PPF file from the mac)
>
>Any suggestions from the group?
>
>-derek
>
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>       Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>       derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>       Computer and Internet Security Consultant
>
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