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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
I'm looking for an all-in-one to be used by about 20 people on a daily
basis. Order of priority: budget(~300$), build quality, maintenance costs and then print quality. Wifi would be counted as perk, but it's not bare necessity. Currently considering these two: Canon PIXMA MG6150 and HP Officejet 4500. |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
From: "vani"
I'm looking for an all-in-one to be used by about 20 people on a daily basis. Order of priority: budget(~300$), build quality, maintenance costs and then print quality. Wifi would be counted as perk, but it's not bare necessity. Currently considering these two: Canon PIXMA MG6150 and HP Officejet 4500. Brother MFC-7840w It better integration into a LAN environment and has WiFi http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/model...UCTID=MFC7840W The HP software is too OS invasive. The Brother software is less invasive, light on resources and more manageable. It fits well in you priority list and I can say that from experience. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
On 10 pro, 21:26, "Elmo P. Shagnasty" wrote:
In article , *vani wrote: I'm looking for an all-in-one to be used by about 20 people on a daily basis. Order of priority: budget(~300$), you're smoking crack. Always remember, it's the cheapest man who spends the most. Good ****ing luck. *Be sure to come back here and tell us how well that $250 printer did for you. I have misspoken, the printer won't be used by 20 people on a daily basis, it will be more like 3-5 clients per day because other redactions have their own bw lasers. |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
From: "vani"
I have misspoken, the printer won't be used by 20 people on a daily basis, it will be more like 3-5 clients per day because other redactions have their own bw lasers. My Brother suggestion stands. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
From: "Elmo P. Shagnasty"
In article , "David H. Lipman" wrote: From: "vani" I have misspoken, the printer won't be used by 20 people on a daily basis, it will be more like 3-5 clients per day because other redactions have their own bw lasers. My Brother suggestion stands. I agree 100%. Get a Brother that does what you want--it might cost $400, but still. Ink is cheap and readily available, and the software rocks. The OP should be able to obtain the model I suggested around the $300.00 mark. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
I have two Brother MFCs in small offices: the MFC-7440N and
MFC-7460DN. Excellent printers in SOHO settings. But one hitch with these is the small output tray area. Reports more than 20 pages curl and fall out of the machine onto the floor. There is a rear output that may work better with a greater printer load. The newer ones have a shallower profile so hard to reach A5 documents with stubby fingers. If you have several staff using the one printer, I think the Brother MFC will be stretched. Suggest try to borrow/lease/test one before you part with your cash. Also check out prices and availability of replacement drum and replacement toners for the Brothers. regards On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:06:08 -0500, "David H. Lipman" wrote: From: "Elmo P. Shagnasty" In article , "David H. Lipman" wrote: From: "vani" I have misspoken, the printer won't be used by 20 people on a daily basis, it will be more like 3-5 clients per day because other redactions have their own bw lasers. My Brother suggestion stands. I agree 100%. Get a Brother that does what you want--it might cost $400, but still. Ink is cheap and readily available, and the software rocks. The OP should be able to obtain the model I suggested around the $300.00 mark. |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
On 2011-12-10, David H. Lipman wrote:
Brother MFC-7840w It better integration into a LAN environment and has WiFi http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/model...UCTID=MFC7840W The HP software is too OS invasive. The Brother software is less invasive, light on resources and more manageable. It fits well in you priority list and I can say that from experience. The last Brother MFC I installed loaded 80Mb of permanently resident crapware. I don't consider that to be light on resources. What's wrong with a bare print driver I don't know because it meant I'll always avoid them in future. -- Andrew Smallshaw |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
From: "Andrew Smallshaw"
On 2011-12-10, David H. Lipman wrote: Brother MFC-7840w It better integration into a LAN environment and has WiFi http://www.brother-usa.com/mfc/model...UCTID=MFC7840W The HP software is too OS invasive. The Brother software is less invasive, light on resources and more manageable. It fits well in you priority list and I can say that from experience. The last Brother MFC I installed loaded 80Mb of permanently resident crapware. I don't consider that to be light on resources. What's wrong with a bare print driver I don't know because it meant I'll always avoid them in future. The MFC is a all-in-one and not a bare printer. Thus it has a TCP/IP Print Provider Port, TWAIN software and fax interface and none is "crapware". It is light on resources as compared to HP which is heavy on resources and highly OS intrusive. I have setup numerous Brother MFC all-in-one devices and they are an excellent SOHO to small business office automation resource. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
On 2011-12-12, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Andrew Smallshaw" The last Brother MFC I installed loaded 80Mb of permanently resident crapware. I don't consider that to be light on resources. What's wrong with a bare print driver I don't know because it meant I'll always avoid them in future. The MFC is a all-in-one and not a bare printer. Thus it has a TCP/IP Print Provider Port, TWAIN software and fax interface and none is "crapware". It is light on resources as compared to HP which is heavy on resources and highly OS intrusive. A bare printer driver is a few hundred kilobytes. Let's be generous and call it a megabyte. A TWAIN driver is around the same. The TCP/IP stuff is by and large leveraging existing Windows facilities. So we're talking about a couple of megabytes on disk. Not 80Mb of memory resident bloat. What's the rest of it? Well, Scansoft Paperport is one thing, which for some reason loads itself in the background permanently and provides fairly second-rate scanner support - even MS Office Document Imaging is preferable. The other main thing is the "Brother Control Center", whose primary purpose appears to be to grab keyboard focus at random times (usually when you're not even using the printer) to tell you that you are _not_ running out of ink. I have setup numerous Brother MFC all-in-one devices and they are an excellent SOHO to small business office automation resource. I don't dispute that, they're nice little printers if you want that sort of thing. I wouldn't rank a light default software load as among their attibutes though. -- Andrew Smallshaw |
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Multifunction printer for an office of 20
From: "Andrew Smallshaw"
On 2011-12-12, David H. Lipman wrote: From: "Andrew Smallshaw" The last Brother MFC I installed loaded 80Mb of permanently resident crapware. I don't consider that to be light on resources. What's wrong with a bare print driver I don't know because it meant I'll always avoid them in future. The MFC is a all-in-one and not a bare printer. Thus it has a TCP/IP Print Provider Port, TWAIN software and fax interface and none is "crapware". It is light on resources as compared to HP which is heavy on resources and highly OS intrusive. A bare printer driver is a few hundred kilobytes. Let's be generous and call it a megabyte. A TWAIN driver is around the same. The TCP/IP stuff is by and large leveraging existing Windows facilities. So we're talking about a couple of megabytes on disk. Not 80Mb of memory resident bloat. What's the rest of it? Well, Scansoft Paperport is one thing, which for some reason loads itself in the background permanently and provides fairly second-rate scanner support - even MS Office Document Imaging is preferable. The other main thing is the "Brother Control Center", whose primary purpose appears to be to grab keyboard focus at random times (usually when you're not even using the printer) to tell you that you are _not_ running out of ink. I have setup numerous Brother MFC all-in-one devices and they are an excellent SOHO to small business office automation resource. I don't dispute that, they're nice little printers if you want that sort of thing. I wouldn't rank a light default software load as among their attibutes though. Scansoft Paperport is an optional application and is NOT part of the Brother client software. The "Brother Control Center" allows you to access different apspects ot the MFC remotely including configuring such things as the fax cover sheet. One has the option in not enabling it upon StartUp. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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