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    • thanksajdotcomT
      thanksajdotcom @DustinB3403
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      @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

      Looking for it now, what is the expected lifetime duty count on the HLL?

      Brother usually has the first thing to go, that isn't really replaceable, be the feed rollers. Once that happens, you just upgrade to the new model. They keep using the same toners for many models and several years usually before they change. They're good about that. Unlike other manufacturers, Brother doesn't create new toners every time they release a new line of printers. Lifetime duty cycle? You could get 60,000 pages. You could get 120,000. You could get more. It varies. But they're very durable and, they are cheap enough that if they do bite the dust after 50,000 pages, you can easily and cheaply replace them. So you're still saving money.

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
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        Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

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          wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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          @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

          Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

          I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time. I did need to replace parts, etc but the thing was a beast.

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          • thanksajdotcomT
            thanksajdotcom @DustinB3403
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            @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

            Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

            Ok, so for a comparable HP, you'll spend 2-3x what the Brother is upfront for the unit, plus the toners are less efficient (as a rule), so you will spend more on toners for less pages. Every cost analysis I do, as a rule, keeps Brother in the lead for efficiency.

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            • DustinB3403D
              DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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              @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

              @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

              Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

              I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

              Yeah, IF being the key word.

              No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

              Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

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              • wirestyle22W
                wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

                I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

                Yeah, IF being the key word.

                No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

                Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

                One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.

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                • DustinB3403D
                  DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
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                  @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                  @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                  @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                  Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

                  I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

                  Yeah, IF being the key word.

                  No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

                  Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

                  One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.

                  Exactly, all I can find for maintenance kits are from random websites. and 1 star reviewed one on Amazon.

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                  • thanksajdotcomT
                    thanksajdotcom @wirestyle22
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                    @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                    @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                    @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                    Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

                    I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

                    Yeah, IF being the key word.

                    No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

                    Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

                    One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.

                    This. NEVER buy knock-off toners. In my experience, they often leak, break the machine, or, at best, give you far less pages than an OEM.

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                    • wirestyle22W
                      wirestyle22 @thanksajdotcom
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                      @thanksajdotcom said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                      @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                      @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                      Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!

                      I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.

                      Yeah, IF being the key word.

                      No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.

                      Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)

                      One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.

                      This. NEVER buy knock-off toners. In my experience, they often leak, break the machine, or, at best, give you far less pages than an OEM.

                      The rollers will cause your machine to jam, not stop them from jamming. You're paying for the opposite of what you need. Crazy

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                      • DustinB3403D
                        DustinB3403
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                        This is a habit they I haven't had to deal with here. They only purchase genuine toner.

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                        • thanksajdotcomT
                          thanksajdotcom @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                          This is a habit they I haven't had to deal with here. They only purchase genuine toner.

                          Lucky you. I have seen it done both ways, and non-OEM almost never works out well. Usually results in lots of printer replacements.

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                            wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                            @DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.

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                              thanksajdotcom @wirestyle22
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                              @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                              @DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.

                              This. Also, non-OEM are generally refurbished OEM cartridges, so you're taking fresh, non-OEM toner and putting it in a cartridge that has run its life course and trying to make it work? Bad idea...

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                                wirestyle22 @thanksajdotcom
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                                @thanksajdotcom said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                                @wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                                @DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.

                                This. Also, non-OEM are generally refurbished OEM cartridges, so you're taking fresh, non-OEM toner and putting it in a cartridge that has run its life course and trying to make it work? Bad idea...

                                Could not agree more.

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                                • thanksajdotcomT
                                  thanksajdotcom
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                                  I know they are generally refurbished cartridges because companies like the retailer I worked at takes old cartridges and sends them back. It's one of the things they do. So yeah, just don't go down that path.

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                                  • MattSpellerM
                                    MattSpeller
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                                    Xerox is alright, we've got them here and they're..... still printers, but I guess they're better than what we had before.

                                    The Phaser 3320 with extra tray would do you I think

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                                    • wirestyle22W
                                      wirestyle22
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                                      If $1000 is your hard cap: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-laserjet-enterprise-m604dn This seems like a beast.

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                                      • DustinB3403D
                                        DustinB3403
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                                        With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.

                                        Our existing printer can't do this.

                                        Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.

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                                        • DustinB3403D
                                          DustinB3403 @DustinB3403
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                                          @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                                          With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.

                                          Our existing printer can't do this.

                                          Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.

                                          With the binder vertical and not horizontal. (make sense?)

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                                            wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
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                                            @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                                            @DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:

                                            With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.

                                            Our existing printer can't do this.

                                            Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.

                                            With the binder vertical and not horizontal. (make sense?)

                                            That may cost more than 1k. I've seen that on copiers and printers with finishers etc. Have you guys considered leasing?

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