<div dir="auto">I would recommend the Brother color laser all in one. I got nearly 8 years out of my (not all in one) color laser printer and I was slamming several thousand pages per year (sometimes per month) through it. Do NOT put third party toner in them. Suck it up and only buy new cartridges from a reputable source. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only other printer I can recommend for reliability is HP. I have 10 and 15 year old HP LaserJets that JustWork. I finally retired one only because the parallel port network adapter failed and I could do without it. That was my check printer. The other still works with minimal fuss. Paper jams in HP kit is highly related to humidity and loading process. The rollers get covered in fibers over the years and still keep working even though the roller is hard as a rock. An occasional (annually) vacuum of crud from around the paper path keeps it working.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only reason for using inkjet is for printing onto non-paper items, CD's and such, and for oversize formats and specialty art. Laser is far more reliable and far less expensive in the long run.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 25, 2017 8:01 AM, "Neal Rhodes" <<a href="mailto:neal@mnopltd.com">neal@mnopltd.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Thanks. Well, my situation - officially my wife and I have retired from our consulting business. Practically we will continue to handle dribbles of client issues for several years and do a few hours of work. And we have to do taxes. <br>
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We now have a collection of 6 printers in the house, including 1 all-in-one, NONE of which work at present. (all have mysterious hardware issues.) To replace the color toner cartridges in the Dell 3100-cn and the drum which it just decided needed replacing is about $380. And then it might, or might not, actually print. <br>
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We figure on needing to print perhaps 300-500 pages a year for the next 5 years. Thus a single all-in-one which does good color printing seems to make the most sense. With the new larger ink capacity in the below units they both seem like they would provide 5-10 years of ink. The Brother is half the cost of the Epson and provides 1/4 of the ink. We don't much care about speed. <br>
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Buying another laser seems like an unnecessary expense at this point. <br>
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On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 09:20:33PM -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> We are looking at either an Epson ET-4550 eco-tank printer or a Brother
> MFC-J5830DW .
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> My recollection is that the Brother drivers installed in Centos 6
> without drama. It looks like the Epson has a generic driver for
> linux.
Brother lasers are drama-free. They Just Work. Epsons are a little
more complicated though.
I'd not consider an inkjet and a laser to be in the same class; what do
you intend to use this printer for?
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