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Best networked color laser printer for home use?

  • My wife's deskjet is dying and I'm using a 17-year old laserjet for printing so it's time to upgrade our home printers. I'd like to get a networked color laser printer that I can just plug into our ethernet and print from both our PCs or a laptop on the wireless (we're a primarily PC household but have the occasional mac laptop). I'd ideally like a printer that can do double sided printing as well. I have an HP CP2025dn at work that I'm very happy with, but that seems a bit expensive for home use. On a quick search, the Brother HL4150CDN seems like it might fit our needs, but I'd love to hear what printers have worked well for you.

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    It's funny you mention the HP CP2025dn. I was fed up with both a cheap color inkjet and a cheap b&w laser, had similar needs as the ones you mentioned, and I bought a CP2025dn on sale for $350 as our home printer to replace both the inkjet and B&W laser. That was in October of 2009 - 5 years ago - and it's still going strong. We've only replaced each of the cartridges once - it was expensive at the outset, but it's run cheaply and smoothly for years now. It's like the Laserjet 4 of color printers, it never gives up. Amazon has the newer version of the CP2025dn, the http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006X2FE1O/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/, for only $269 shipped if you have Prime right now. That's even cheaper than the HL4150CDN you mentioned.

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I've been pretty happy with the Brother MFC printers (I've had four now, for a variety of complex reasons). These are basically what you're looking at with the HL4150CDN plus scanning and fax capability. The toner is expensive, but you already knew that.

mr_roboto

The HP 4xx series are exceptional printers. Highly suggested. You want the http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006X2FEIC/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ though, as it has both the duplexer and the wireless card (as well as an ethernet port). If you need the wireless card, but can do without the duplexer, that's the http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006X2FDL0/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/

tomierna

I have excellent experiences with Brother MFC series. At least 20 of the http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00C6MNP52/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/ installed and they just keep working. My only problem is that the only network option is WiFi, strangely enough this model doesn't have a ethernet port.

Mac-Expert

I have a cannon MF8300 - color laser, duplex, copy/scan/fax/multi-function, wired+wireless. It's a great printer. Toner is still an arm+leg, but it's a great device.

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