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Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - clay - 02-28-2017
I personally like brother. I've had good experience with HP as well. Xerox does great color (or has in the past anyway), but seemed like refills were expensive.
Just need a reliable, low volume color laser printer for an office. Think printing invoices with a color logo or other simple office stuff. NOT color photo printing, etc. Maybe 1,000 a month. But probably nowhere close to that. Needs to be networkable. AirPrint printing a bonus.
Would love to find something in the sub-$300 range with reasonable cost toner refills. Multi-function device not needed. Prefer reliability and low cost of operation over speed or buku features.
Any tips?
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - Zoidberg - 02-28-2017
I've had excellent luck with the HP M252dw. (Here's HP's page on it.) Home office environment, but it heavily utilized by me, wife, and three kids (college and HS ages); everyone is printing all the time.
Downside: small paper tray capacity. And since I sit near it, I'm the one that always has to fill it, eh?
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - pdq - 02-28-2017
Zoidberg - thanks for your rec. This question was posed to me by my sis-in-law recently.
I see that HP toner for that model is still ridiculously pricy (~$70 per color for 1400 pages at Amazon, making a full CMYK set around $260, or well above the price of the printer.)
Have you had good luck with non-name-brand or remanufactured toner?
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - Zoidberg - 02-28-2017
> Have you had good luck with non-name-brand or remanufactured toner?
Have not used non-brand in over a decade. Last time I did it all but ruined the printer (granted, that was an inkjet) so I swore it off entirely. Am often tempted to.
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - GuyGene - 02-28-2017
I need exactly same kind of printer, and the reason I don't have one yet is ridiculous cartridge price.
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - jdc - 03-01-2017
Heres a post from a couple of months ago
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,2072092,2072135#msg-2072135
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - Speedy - 03-01-2017
We love our three Xerox color laser printers circa 2009. One is a 6180 and two are duplex 6280's and we paid about $200 for them new but discontinued. A full set of reman toner carts run about $250 for 6000 pages. Never a problem with any of them. Not AirPrint but they work well on our Ethernet and WiFi network with zero glitches. USB also. Point being, you get what you pay for and Xerox makes a nice printer.
Re: Good mid-range color laser for low-volume office printing? - Cary - 03-01-2017
I have a Brother MFC9340CDW, which is used at home, mostly by my wife and kids.
I buy aftermarket carts on Amazon - about $50 for 4.
Works great!