[dba-Tech] Not as easy as it sounds

Peter Brawley peter.brawley at earthlink.net
Tue May 3 15:32:31 CDT 2011


We've had two Brother MFCs for several years, a 445 and a 665, each for 
about $100, each still prints, scans, photocopies and faxes flawlessly. 
3P cartridges come in at $1-$2 each and work fine. I think the current 
versions of these models are MFC-795 at $110 amd MFCJ265W at $100.

PB

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On 5/3/2011 1:24 PM, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> Max, my son who is at Northwestern, needs a printer.  So I said I'd shop one
> up for him and have it shipped.  Initially survey reveals that there are
> approximately 3.6 million printers available.
>
> So I'm going to ask for recommendations.  Printer should be 1) fairly
> inexpensive (he's pretty hard on his electronics so it may need to be
> replaced in a year), 2) have inexpensive replacement carts, either OEM or
> third party, 3) low duty - certainly<100 sheets per day - usually much
> less, 4) he says color's not necessary but I think it's a good thing to have
> (do they even make mono printers any more?)  which means separate color
> carts.
>
> What else?  8 1/2 x 11-14 is fine.
>
> Vendor's no problem - I can have it drop shipped from Fry's, Amazon, Tiger
> Direct, etc.  Just need to decide on a printer.
>
> What's your top choices?
>
> Rocky
>
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