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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Pretty much all MFDs are bad, the difference is going to be the service provided by your outsourced provider of choice. Invite a few in, let them present their answers to your requirements, get some reference sites that you can contact, and go from there.

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May 21, 2004

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OfficeJet Enterprise X585?

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May 21, 2004

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There's a Dell colour laser MFD that's a rebadged Xerox going round for cheap. Dell call it the C3765dnf and it's a Xerox 6605 underneath.

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Japanese Dating Sim posted:

Sorry, my question wasn't clear. I buy the printers/computers for my building. I inherited the position and when I did, Laserjet m401dne's were the usual printer, and that's not an option anymore.

So I'll probably just transition to the m402 for future purchases, but I'd like to do a little research before I commit to that.

I think all small printers are bad to a point, just pick whatever ones are easiest to get supplies for and have non-poo poo drivers. I hated the plastic panels on the M401 series and it looks like they've fixed that on the M402.

Another option could be the Samsung SL-M3320ND but that's not based on a sample size larger than one. If you already use the HP Device Manager with the current machines you have deployed then it makes sense to stick to HP.

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


The Samsung M2825ND is pretty much perfect but might be too large.

Compact and laser don't really go together, I prefer a paper drawer to the front tray that's open and gets filled with dust though.

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


There's a couple of compact Canon and Ricoh models but then you lose stuff like a duplexer and they become USB host printers (ugh).

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


I probably used the wrong phrase for it but it's ones where they are made to a price point so all the image processing is done on the computer they are connected to, so the drivers are bloated and poo poo-tastic and in 3 years time when a new OS comes out you need to junk the printer because the manufacturer doesn't support it any more. As opposed to a networked model where you can carry on throwing PostScript at it for decades to come.

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Can anybody recommend a mono laser MFP that can do duplex scanning (reversing ADF is fine), duplex print, and connects to Google Drive / Dropbox / Scan-to-email? I have an Epson WF-3520 at the moment that can do this but am looking to get away from inkjet, I'm struggling to find a laser MFP with the duplexing features that has the more consumer-style cloud services built in.

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May 21, 2004

#essereFerrari


Always go with whatever option makes it somebody else's problem

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