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My small home color laser printer seems to be on its last legs*, and I'm looking for a replacement, either an all-in-one or a printer-only; what do you recommend?
My needs and priorities, roughly in order of importance to me:
* it must be a color laser printer (period--I'm familiar with, and not interested in rehashing the pros and cons of, e.g. tank inkjets);
* it must not be expensive to buy or exorbitantly expensive to run--I'm thinking I'd go up to $375 on a printer-only or $450 on an all-in-one, but that's the maximum, and I'd prefer to spend less;
* it should be reliable;
* it should be compact, especially in height;
* auto-duplex / two-sided printing would be nice but not necessary;
* a scanner / all-in-one functionality would be nice but not necessary; and
* if it has a scanner, then an automatic document feeder would be nice but not necessary.
Also: they all seem to be wireless, but wireless operation is a requirement. It must be readily available new; I'm not interested in a used printer, or hunting for a new copy of a discontinued model. Photo printing quality is not important because I have an inkjet for that.
My candidates identified so far:
Either from among my identified candidates or not, what do you recommend? Are there any you think I should avoid? Do you have any comments about the brands and/or models listed above? Any details and reasons would be helpful. Thanks!
*It's a Samsung CLP-325W, it has bad feeding problems, toners are getting harder to find and less likely to be accepted happily by the printer, and the fuser seems past its best-performance life. It got it almost thirteen years ago.
My needs and priorities, roughly in order of importance to me:
* it must be a color laser printer (period--I'm familiar with, and not interested in rehashing the pros and cons of, e.g. tank inkjets);
* it must not be expensive to buy or exorbitantly expensive to run--I'm thinking I'd go up to $375 on a printer-only or $450 on an all-in-one, but that's the maximum, and I'd prefer to spend less;
* it should be reliable;
* it should be compact, especially in height;
* auto-duplex / two-sided printing would be nice but not necessary;
* a scanner / all-in-one functionality would be nice but not necessary; and
* if it has a scanner, then an automatic document feeder would be nice but not necessary.
Also: they all seem to be wireless, but wireless operation is a requirement. It must be readily available new; I'm not interested in a used printer, or hunting for a new copy of a discontinued model. Photo printing quality is not important because I have an inkjet for that.
My candidates identified so far:
Either from among my identified candidates or not, what do you recommend? Are there any you think I should avoid? Do you have any comments about the brands and/or models listed above? Any details and reasons would be helpful. Thanks!
*It's a Samsung CLP-325W, it has bad feeding problems, toners are getting harder to find and less likely to be accepted happily by the printer, and the fuser seems past its best-performance life. It got it almost thirteen years ago.
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