If I was going to choose one, HP would be my favorite. Cost of toner/ink is higher, but at least the older lasers were tanks. I remember wishing my home laser printer would die so I could get a 'newer fancy' model. It was still going when we tossed it in about 2005.
Currently have a Samsung CLP-300. Just wish it was a networked model. It has been cheap to own and operate, with separate toner for each color plus black, it has been good, but we never put it through the same paces we did the HP-LJ IIp (both were purchased when prices went down at the end of their product life cycle, and both are/were good printers. ... We tend to over analyze and try to find lowest lifecycle cost, and for most people it isn't worth the effort. With our lower printing usage now days (wife prints at work, so it is just me), I would probably go with another small color laser, because the toner cost are so much lower than the ink cartridge, and I don't want to do the refilling of either. Like Howard, multifunction is an abomination for the most part. It works for some, and if you really want to replace your printer when the paper feed for the scanner goes out, then get one. Just not for me. ... It does take more desktop space, but a cheap scanner does my work nicely. <warstory warning> If you do 'enough' printing, I can see using inkjet. New inks are better, but go with the bulk feed. When I worked for Amoco (years ago) we worked with HP and some HP 'addon' companies to attach pumps and bulk ink (gallon jugs) to HP 650 40" wide printer/plotters. They were just color inkjet printers, and went through cart's at the rate of 2 to 3 a day. With the bulk ink, we re-checked them daily but didn't need replacing but weekly or less. Users were Geophysicists that filled 40" wide, 40' long plots with colored ink from top to bottom. -- I remember my wife having plots covering a 40x100' room where cubes hadn't been put with plots, when they were researching best use of color analysis for finding oil & gas. --- They had to roll up the plots and put them in the vaults every night, and never leave them alone for corporate security reasons. still impressive. -- oh, to study the plots, all the professionals took off their shoes and were' careful' when walking on and analyzing all that paper. ... Oh well, another war story. (and you should have seen the shredding rooms!) ... On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Jim Peterson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've had the best results with Brother & HP. Dell & Lexmark are (or at least > used to be) the same piece of crap (Dell used to be made by Lexmark), and > Canon are renowned for their lack of Linux support. That being said, I have > a Canon Pixma ip2600 sitting on my desk at home. I haven't had any > experience with the X yet, but they could be alright. > > Jim Peterson > > On 7/18/2014 5:04 PM, Howard White wrote: >> >> We've all deployed umpteen gazillion printers over the years. >> >> I've gotten kinda bummed out on the market leader - HP. The single digit >> HP LaserJets were tanks (the LJ 4si/Mx was awesome) but the 4 digit units >> have issues. HP struggles to distinguish themselves from their own PCL by >> layering on other crap. >> >> So what is your current recommendation for a monochrome, wired network >> (not wifi) workgroup printer?? HP, Samsung, Canon, Brother (cough, cough), >> Lexmark (the suggestion of which might get me shot here), Xerox. The list >> goes on and on. >> >> Not interested in multifunction. Just more things to break. >> >> Howard >> > > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! 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