[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

[Sean Kilpatrick]

I have owned and used an HP laserjet pro 400 for nearly two decades
and it has been as reliable as the proverbial stone ax.

The one thing I have learned about laser printers over the decades is
to NEVER use cheap paper.  Cheap paper generates a lot of abrasive
paper dust that can and will muck up the innards while it coats the
feed rollers.

Sean Kilpatrick

On Sat, Sep 7, 2019 at 9:46 AM Derek Atkins via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> We've got an HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281cdw.
> It's worked.... okay.  It often "crashes" in the middle of a print job,
> only printing like have a page, or stopping mid-way through a "large" PDF
> (where "large" can be as small as 3-4MB).  Sometimes it just falls off the
> wifi network (I don't really blame the printer for this).
>
> We paid around $300 for the printer from Costco a year or so ago.
> The toner is running out, and replacement toner is....  $300.
>
> So we're thinking of just replacing the printer instead of paying for more
> toner for a printer that, frankly, we don't like.
>
> We USED to have a Xerox that we loved, until it started ghosting and the
> paper jammed.
>
> We are looking for:
> -- Color (preferably LaserJet)
> -- Ethernet
> -- Duplex
> -- scanner w/ document feeder
> -- works on Mac and Linux (I'm happy pulling a PPF file from the mac)
>
> Any suggestions from the group?
>
> -derek
>
> --
>        Derek Atkins                 617-623-3745
>        derek at ihtfp.com             www.ihtfp.com
>        Computer and Internet Security Consultant
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