My recommendation depends on print volume, color/B&W, etc. I was stunned when HP turned to the same breakable printer as all the others, I was crushed when my IIIp died. (And even when I was looking for high volume printers, HP was even worse than competitors for our needs.) They started doing some funky things, and I consider them pretty much Lexmark equivalent, though as said, you can generally find more suppliers of toner, etc. I have no recent experience. Perhaps worth another look since it has been years...
Home wired networked use, I definitely like my Brother B&W laser, Linux support, Post Script built in, never broken on me. What's not to like? Canon, especially in the SOHO arena, has virtually non-existent Linux / PostScript support, no experience with their lasers. (I like their inkjet results, 100 year ink, more accurate colors. Just hate the lack of Linux support.) Work, we still pretty much have to buy Dell until you get out of the personal / very small workgroup B&W arena (because they give us a low/discount price). Large volume, the accountants have evidently crunched the numbers and come out that leasing from R J Young (with Vanderbilt discount) comes out better than buying. (YMMV) Generally Ricoh, but Xerox is a strong competitor in the large volume print arena. Xerox is the way to go if you need the printer to track usage by user as it is built in (e.g. who printed 5000 full color pages? When?). Ricoh has PostScript as an add-on, Xerox it is native. If you're in this arena, definitely get some sort of support agreement, especially fixing a Xerox without extended service agreement is REALLY expensive. (Oki was a strong competitor back several years, but as far as I know RJY doesn't carry them, haven't had experience.) Perhaps goes without saying, but unfortunately, regardless of printer line, I don't really see the sturdiness (i.e. virtually non-breakable-ness) in anything recent like the old HP 3/4 series had, especially internally. "We built it cheaper, lower cost means more sales over competitors, it will break sooner, then we can sell a new one more quickly" mentality seems to be everywhere these days. :-\ Paul On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 5:04 PM, Howard White <[email protected]> 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 > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
