[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

[neal at mnopltd.com]

Yes.  I had a couple of those early printers.  The print-head was 
integral with the ink cannister.  Like the free Barbie doll but the 
clothes are ...

I think there was an intermediate stage a few years (heh. probably a 
decade ago when Brother switched to permanently mounted print heads, and 
their firmware would clean itself by pushing ink through it periodically 
if you didn't print a lot.  Drove me crazy, hearing it spending 
expensive ink.

We also had a Dell color laser, which was great... until the drum 
crapped out.  New drum = $350 + four new toner cartridges = $220... nah.

Our print volume is modest.  The  MFCJ5830DW has big ink tanks, and it 
"just works" until those tanks are empty.  They claim 3000 pages on the 
black tank.

On 2019-09-07 14:25, Derek Atkins wrote:
> HI,
> 
> This looks like an inkjet and not a laserjet.
> 
> I've (historically) had issues with inkjet printers, like the ink 
> drying
> out after a relatively short period, or the printer works getting 
> gummed
> up within a few months or so.  Has the technology changed significantly 
> in
> the past few years that should cause me to look at it instead of a 
> laser
> printer?
> 
> FWIW, I still have an old HP LaserJet 6MP (Postscript Printer that I
> acquired sometime around 1999, give or take.  It still works, mostly, 
> but
> after 20 years its paper feeder is beginning to give out.  Talk about a
> workhorse!  They don't make printers like this anymore.
> 
> -derek
> 
> On Sat, September 7, 2019 1:16 pm, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>> 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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