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Bumping this. My Laserjet 2605dn is dying, thanks to a nice crippling design flaw that makes the printer basically kill itself after a couple years. I'd like to replace it with a color laser multifunction as I do still occasionally have the need to fax/scan/etc. My requirements:
The Brother models look pretty decent, but people seem to whine about the fairly standard lovely industry practice of artificially claiming that toner cartridges are empty when they actually aren't. Any other big issues with Brother other than that? The MFC-9840CDW looks pretty close to what I'm looking for, anyone have any experiences with this particular model?
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Liongate posted:Its time for me to buy a printer. I went from a color laser to a 7860DW recently and have absolutely no regrets.
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Jun 23, 2011 15:30
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Liongate posted:I still need some good points on going duplex rather than colour since in most cases you can still manually do double sides. Can't go other way around, unless coloring that monochrome picture with crayons. Thinkfear really hit the nail on the head. A full color toner run on my last printer was maybe 2/3 - 3/4 of the price of a new printer, so usually didn't bother to print color unless I absolutely needed it. Manual duplexing means that you're really not going to end up duplexing in most situations. Color print jobs on a consumer priced laser are going to be decent, but not photo quality, so it really ended up being a situation where black and white was fine 99+% of the time, and if I want a good color print, or some color printing done, I'll just do it somewhere with a cheaper cost and better materials.
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Jun 23, 2011 21:50
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Liongate posted:I read more about the Samsung CLX-3185FW and it seems it has some annoying driver and ink problems. Guess I go with monochrome printer then since I haven't found any other appealing colour printer so far. The printer is silent in "deep sleep" mode, I think the problem is that it can't go into deep sleep mode when connected to wireless (at least from what I read). I don't think it's quite loud, but it would be really annoying if it was anywhere by my bed (think small annoying fan noise).
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Jun 26, 2011 19:23
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Robolizard! posted:the brother printer everyone likes is on sale at newegg today ($80). I ordered it and was going to get the drum cartridge, but it appeared to have very poor reviews (though only two on amazon and two on newegg). Has anyone had success with it? Over 4 times the capacity for less than twice the price of the 2600 page toner seemed like a very, very good deal. Just to clarify, the drum is a different consumable part from the toner cartridge, it just happens to last longer before it dies (at least for this printer, some printers use a combination unit). Maneki Neko fucked around with this message at 14:50 on Aug 23, 2011 |
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