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[OilCanShotTupac]

Hi.

I have a new home-office setup. I need a new all-in-one, and am looking for a recommendation.

It's got to be a high-quality, sturdy machine, because I'm going to be using it heavily.

What I need:

-Laser, NOT inkjet
-Black and white
-Good print/copy speed
-Automatic document feeder that is not a piece of shit that will choke on 5 pages
-Scans to PDF
-Fax not necessary (I use eFax)
-Wireless would be great, IF it's reliable

I'm willing to spend a couple of bucks to get the right machine. I have a piece of shit HP inkjet all-in-one right now, and I want to kick it down the street - it tends to shit the bed when I need it most (like today).

Thanks.

[Scott Cooper's Grand Slam]

I've had a networked, laser Brother printer for about six years now and I'm very happy with it. It's a real workhorse, I've never had a problem with it. If I were looking for a multifunction machine, I'd start with Brother: http://www.brother-u...20#.T10HHfFmLpg

[Curtis Pride]

My company has a lot of home offices across the country, and we usually get Brother MFCs for them. We also have a few Dells, but they were often part of the Dell package. They've been very reliable for us.

[The_Powa_of_Seiji_Ozawa]

Brothers are good machines, also cost effective per page, but if you want to network them they have been a bitch, at least in my experience. Canon are just as good and, for me, have been much easier to network. The Canon 4300d series has been very good for me over the last bunch of years, does duplex printing. You can get a networkable one for about 100 on sale.

[Trautwein's Degree]

I've thought about an all in one solution but I can't get away from how awesome the Fujitsu Snapscan 1500 is. Check out the reviews. Watch videos on youtube. And it comes with Adobe for $419 it is a steal. I'm opting for that and a separate laser printer.

Edited by Trautwein's Degree, 11 March 2012 - 07:29 PM.

[LoweTek]

I have a severely underutilized HP 2840 I'll sell to you cheap. It's a beast. It's color but I use it for black only. HP brand toner is a bit pricey but there's OEM stuff out there much cheaper. It's wired network and I've never had any trouble with it being connected. The software is rather clunky. I don't use the scanning feature very often so I have the full software suite installed on a secondary machine I boot only when I need to scan. I just have the basic printer driver installed in my primary PC. It does scan directly to PDF. When it's in stand-by it wakes up every once in a while and re-calibrates itself, which can be a bit startling but you get used to it. I leave it off when I'm not using it. Let me know if you're interested.

http://www.amazon.co...31555152&sr=8-1

[OilCanShotTupac]

Traut, I've read the reviews of the SnapScan and it looks great. One question: what would the copier solution be? I often have to make 5-8 copies of 100+ page documents at a time. Would the solution be to scan the document with the SnapScan and then print it? How would that compare with a high end all-in-one for speed, ease of use, and copy quality?

[Trautwein's Degree]

Yes, scan and then print. The adobe software that comes with the snapscan is more expensive than the scanner. Which is insane. I have no interest in anything other than digital copies unless I'm forced to. If I had to copy a lot of documents - I'd go to Staples.

[AlNipper49]

Why don't you just lease or buy an ImageRunner or something? You're a kick-ass lawyer and every minute of trying to fiddle with some shitbag prosumer thing is every minute you're not triple billing.

If you want a truly digital office then this is your most important investment

[OilCanShotTupac]

This is exactly the kind of recommendation I was looking for. Thanks.