[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

We are generally thrilled to bits with our Brother MFCJ5830DW.   In 
particular...
- duplex printing of letter paper. (nope, can't duplex print 11x17..)
- good printing of pictures up to 11x17
- scanner/feeder can take a 50 sheet stack and email you a PDF

ONLY annoyance is the linux printer driver cannot do landscape.  It says 
it will, but it always comes out portrait with stuff chopped off.   
Windows desktops in the house have no problem.   (note: I'm still on 
Centos 6)

On 2019-09-07 11:12, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
> Anything Brother, basically.
> 
> On 9/7/19 9:46 AM, Derek Atkins via Ale 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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