[ale] New Printer Recommendations?

[Derek Atkins]

Good to know!  Thanks.

What's your feeling on the J5830DW vs J5930DW from a quality PoV?
It sounds like the 5930 might be able to handle thicker paper (card stock)
and theoretically can do double-sided scanning?  But on Amazon it gets a
3-1/2 Star vs 4 star for the 5830.

-derek

On Sun, September 8, 2019 2:30 pm, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
> Yes.  I had a couple of those early printers.  The print-head was
> integral with the ink cannister.  Like the free Barbie doll but the
> clothes are ...
>
> I think there was an intermediate stage a few years (heh. probably a
> decade ago when Brother switched to permanently mounted print heads, and
> their firmware would clean itself by pushing ink through it periodically
> if you didn't print a lot.  Drove me crazy, hearing it spending
> expensive ink.
>
> We also had a Dell color laser, which was great... until the drum
> crapped out.  New drum = $350 + four new toner cartridges = $220... nah.
>
> Our print volume is modest.  The  MFCJ5830DW has big ink tanks, and it
> "just works" until those tanks are empty.  They claim 3000 pages on the
> black tank.
>
> On 2019-09-07 14:25, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> HI,
>>
>> This looks like an inkjet and not a laserjet.
>>
>> I've (historically) had issues with inkjet printers, like the ink
>> drying
>> out after a relatively short period, or the printer works getting
>> gummed
>> up within a few months or so.  Has the technology changed significantly
>> in
>> the past few years that should cause me to look at it instead of a
>> laser
>> printer?
>>
>> FWIW, I still have an old HP LaserJet 6MP (Postscript Printer that I
>> acquired sometime around 1999, give or take.  It still works, mostly,
>> but
>> after 20 years its paper feeder is beginning to give out.  Talk about a
>> workhorse!  They don't make printers like this anymore.
>>
>> -derek
>>
>> On Sat, September 7, 2019 1:16 pm, Neal Rhodes via Ale wrote:
>>> We are generally thrilled to bits with our Brother MFCJ5830DW.   In
>>> particular...
>>> - duplex printing of letter paper. (nope, can't duplex print 11x17..)
>>> - good printing of pictures up to 11x17
>>> - scanner/feeder can take a 50 sheet stack and email you a PDF
>>>
>>> ONLY annoyance is the linux printer driver cannot do landscape.  It
>>> says
>>> it will, but it always comes out portrait with stuff chopped off.
>>> Windows desktops in the house have no problem.   (note: I'm still on
>>> Centos 6)
>>>
>>> On 2019-09-07 11:12, Jeff Hubbs via Ale wrote:
>>>> Anything Brother, basically.
>>>>
>>>> On 9/7/19 9:46 AM, Derek Atkins via Ale 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
>>>>>
>>>>
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