What Are You Doing Right Now
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@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Looking for an all in one laser printer.
- Low volume (approx. 10-15k pages / yr)
- Color
- A4 (~ US Letter)
- Scan (incl. scan to fileshare)
- Fax (ya, we'll get rid of this
soonnever) - Duplex scan
- Duplex print
- Two paper trays (>= 250 sheets / tray)
- Preferably no bloatware drivers
Ideas?
Looks like a showdown between Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn and Brother MFC-L8690CDW.
Anyone using one of them?
I don't like Brother printers. At least none of the ones we've got here.
Mrs nadnerB has been looking at MFC's for our house and found Brother doesn't fair so well in the long run, hardware wise.I despise their "Control Center" software and am not overly impressed with their hardware.
I will state that I'd take one over a Fuji-Xerox.
From what Mrs nadnerB and I have seen in the lower spec space, the Kyocera would be the better of the two.
Brother's have lasted us at work far longer than Xerox and HP printers, both printer and MFC.
As with everything, your mileage may vary.
I have had my brother laser printer for 6 years now. Still going strong.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nerdydad said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@nadnerb said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@thwr said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Looking for an all in one laser printer.
- Low volume (approx. 10-15k pages / yr)
- Color
- A4 (~ US Letter)
- Scan (incl. scan to fileshare)
- Fax (ya, we'll get rid of this
soonnever) - Duplex scan
- Duplex print
- Two paper trays (>= 250 sheets / tray)
- Preferably no bloatware drivers
Ideas?
Looks like a showdown between Kyocera Ecosys M5526cdn and Brother MFC-L8690CDW.
Anyone using one of them?
I don't like Brother printers. At least none of the ones we've got here.
Mrs nadnerB has been looking at MFC's for our house and found Brother doesn't fair so well in the long run, hardware wise.I despise their "Control Center" software and am not overly impressed with their hardware.
I will state that I'd take one over a Fuji-Xerox.
From what Mrs nadnerB and I have seen in the lower spec space, the Kyocera would be the better of the two.
Brother's have lasted us at work far longer than Xerox and HP printers, both printer and MFC.
As with everything, your mileage may vary.
I have had my brother laser printer for 6 years now. Still going strong.
My dad was in the same boat. A $100 brother laser lasted at least 6 years.. I think he moved (and downsized) before it died.
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Years isn't a good measurement for a printer, it's more about pages.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Years isn't a good measurement for a printer, it's more about pages.
Very true.. his usage was pretty low.
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@dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Years isn't a good measurement for a printer, it's more about pages.
Very true.. his usage was pretty low.
So was ours, go years without printing. After very few pages, it just stopped working. We should have just paid Kinkos to do the printer for as little as we used it.
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I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
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I print about 200-500ish pages a month, not a massive amount but a really steady amount.
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@minion-queen said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I print about 200-500ish pages a month, not a massive amount but a really steady amount.
Yeah then laser makes more sense.
At home, it's just for my wife's college work, and activities for my daughter. No laser printer needed for that.
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My Inject at home has only been used 2-3 times in the last year, and twice from by the Sister-in-law to print Job applications out lol.
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Well, it's the printer that my boss and his secretary share. The old one (some HP Color LaserJet 20xx) lasted for nearly 10 years and tens of thousands of pages. Just want to do our secretary a favor because right now she has three devices on her desk: Printer, scanner and a fax machine. I think a good MFC will serve her well.
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Been on the phone for quite a while doing customer support.
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Hehe, that's what I thought too. Wasn't it Epson who threw a pro ink printer on the market with 1.5 liter ink bags?
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Did you mean to have a few more zeros in that monthly page count number? A $40 WalMart special could handle that little amount of printing in a month!
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?
That was my first printer.
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?
They sure don't make printers that are that reliable for sure. Just had to line the paper up straight when loading it in.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?
That was my first printer.
9 pin Epson Dot Matix Printer was my first printer. How I miss those days.
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DDrescue of an IDE Hard Drive for a DicomBOX now.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I don't like laser printers. Call me old fashioned idc.
A simple HP ink jet all-in-one, with HP Instant Ink works so well for us, and has been for last bunch of years. And we're not very light with the page count, 50-100 pages a month if not more.
Doesn't that make you new-fashioned? Lasers are the old tech. Unless you are talking daisy wheel or dot matrix.
Of course I'm talking dot matrix... why would you use anything else?
That was my first printer.
My dad used a 9 dot matrix printer approx. 3 decades ago to print his application. Glued fine embossed paper to the endless paper and printed using... erm, Symphony? Star Writer? Good old times.
