Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible
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@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
Ok, so for a comparable HP, you'll spend 2-3x what the Brother is upfront for the unit, plus the toners are less efficient (as a rule), so you will spend more on toners for less pages. Every cost analysis I do, as a rule, keeps Brother in the lead for efficiency.
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@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.
Yeah, IF being the key word.
No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.
Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)
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@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.
Yeah, IF being the key word.
No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.
Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)
One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.
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@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.
Yeah, IF being the key word.
No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.
Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)
One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.
Exactly, all I can find for maintenance kits are from random websites. and 1 star reviewed one on Amazon.
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@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.
Yeah, IF being the key word.
No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.
Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)
One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.
This. NEVER buy knock-off toners. In my experience, they often leak, break the machine, or, at best, give you far less pages than an OEM.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
Our existing HP has 460,536 prints to date!
I had an HP 4250 that had 2.5 million prints. If you maintain them correctly, they last for a ridiculously long amount of time.
Yeah, IF being the key word.
No one has ever put a feed roller or anything into this printer as far as I know. And our printer guy has refused to touch the printer.
Also they don't make the maintenance kit for this printer any more (from a brief search)
One thing I can say is don't ever try to purchase third party maintenance kits. I bought some rollers from china just to see and never again.
This. NEVER buy knock-off toners. In my experience, they often leak, break the machine, or, at best, give you far less pages than an OEM.
The rollers will cause your machine to jam, not stop them from jamming. You're paying for the opposite of what you need. Crazy
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This is a habit they I haven't had to deal with here. They only purchase genuine toner.
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@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
This is a habit they I haven't had to deal with here. They only purchase genuine toner.
Lucky you. I have seen it done both ways, and non-OEM almost never works out well. Usually results in lots of printer replacements.
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@DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.
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@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.
This. Also, non-OEM are generally refurbished OEM cartridges, so you're taking fresh, non-OEM toner and putting it in a cartridge that has run its life course and trying to make it work? Bad idea...
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@thanksajdotcom said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 thats good because the manufacturers put chips in them and 1 out of every 7 at my old job (third party toners) straight up didn't recognize the toner and would not work. I would have to return them every couple of weeks by shipment. Complete waste of time and money.
This. Also, non-OEM are generally refurbished OEM cartridges, so you're taking fresh, non-OEM toner and putting it in a cartridge that has run its life course and trying to make it work? Bad idea...
Could not agree more.
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I know they are generally refurbished cartridges because companies like the retailer I worked at takes old cartridges and sends them back. It's one of the things they do. So yeah, just don't go down that path.
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Xerox is alright, we've got them here and they're..... still printers, but I guess they're better than what we had before.
The Phaser 3320 with extra tray would do you I think
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If $1000 is your hard cap: http://store.hp.com/us/en/pdp/hp-laserjet-enterprise-m604dn This seems like a beast.
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With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.
Our existing printer can't do this.
Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.
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@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.
Our existing printer can't do this.
Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.
With the binder vertical and not horizontal. (make sense?)
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@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.
Our existing printer can't do this.
Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.
With the binder vertical and not horizontal. (make sense?)
That may cost more than 1k. I've seen that on copiers and printers with finishers etc. Have you guys considered leasing?
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@wirestyle22 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
@DustinB3403 said in Work horse - Monochrome dual tray maximum Printer - Network compatible:
With something that does duplexing, the ability to flip every other page so reading the page in a 3-ring binder would be a great feature.
Our existing printer can't do this.
Edit: It can duplex, but it doesn't flip the page for easy reading in a binder.
With the binder vertical and not horizontal. (make sense?)
That may cost more than 1k. I've seen that on copiers and printers with finishers etc. Have you guys considered leasing?
We do lease our postage machine, but not printers. At some point (before my time) the business decided to buy a random assortment of printers and is still using them until they die.
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And the finishing feature isn't a mandate at all. Currently the failing printer is a HP Laserjet P3015, which doesn't have this today.
Just a nicety that I could see saving some paper by using duplex flipped functionality.
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