anyone with experience with Dell multifunction laser printers?

[gnihcraes]

everyone will have opinions on this obviously.

We use Lexmark, Brother, Xerox at work. Lexmark I thought was crap, until we bought some xerox. We only get about 1-2 years out of the xerox before things start breaking. (We're talking high end printers, $600-1000 range). We have a lot of small brother printers and multi-function units, they last about a year also. Constantly changing toners and drums because of print quality issues. Not saving any money there. I've always been a fan of the HP printers if you buy the professional units. ($300 and up) I've recently purchased some HP units and they seem made of plastic like everything else. Not sure how they will hold up. ($300-400 range)

The dells are made by Lexmark and Samsung typically. I personally have a Dell/samsung multi function and it's lasted about 10 years now. They seem to do ok, compared to some of the others.

You're going to get what you pay for. The $99 printer isn't going to last long and will cost you a bundle in toners and drums.

Any of the brands would be ok in the $400 range I'd think.

my 2 cents

[HBARleatherneck]

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[gnihcraes]

how about this?

http://www.amazon.com/Brother-MFC-99...p_ob_e_title_1

eeek. Do you need color? 3 or 4 toners at $70 each isn't cheap. Kids tend to print a lot when it's color just because they can FYI.

It's probably ok otherwise. It is an LED printer vs. laser. You won't notice much difference in printing probably.

Brother usually has decent software for their MFC systems. You can insert some documents, hit scan and it shows up on your pc.

[Hoosier]

eeek. Do you need color? 3 or 4 toners at $70 each isn't cheap. Kids tend to print a lot when it's color just because they can FYI.

It's probably ok otherwise. It is an LED printer vs. laser. You won't notice much difference in printing probably.

Brother usually has decent software for their MFC systems. You can insert some documents, hit scan and it shows up on your pc.

Yeah color is a bit spendy. I only use mine to print things that I sign, scan, and send back somewhere though. If you have kids doing reports and stuff, I can see how you might make a case for it.

The Brother software is decent. My g/f is able to use it to import documents straight to her computer. You can configure "Profiles" for different types of scans, ie select "Pictures" and it brings them in high color high resolution straight to Photoshop -- Choose PDF and it will turn a stack of documents into a PDF, even doing double sided pages. I have gotten good use out of it.

H.

[Ridge]

As a Dell field service tech, I can legally say most of Dell's stuff sucks.

HP, too. But they are at least pretty decent with printers.

I use a small inkjet Canon for my personal use.

[Great-Kazoo]

Lexmark Pro900 series is what we are running. As one who used HP, Cannon (stay very far away) etc i chose the LM. I was hesitant at first since we used one for work and the ink cost on a then low budget copier was excessive. This Pro series i purchased as LM advertises it is one of the lower cost ink users on the market. Well X copies later i finally replaced the black. 2 months later the color cartridges. 1.5 years later i have been through 3 black ink units!. The other printers i would have used 2x as many. This unit is a copier (color) scanner and faz, all functions i am using daily. The big seller for me on the LM is their warranty.This unit carries a no BS 3 year customer satisfaction, replacement coverage if it cannot be fixed. Also price wise the most competitive pricing along with salespeople who actually knew their product was Staples.