Good 11x17 Duplex Printer
Publison
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I've been pretty happy with the Brother line of printers over the last 6 years. I have a 8/12x11 and a 11x17 that have put up in a business environment that have lasted this long.
I was in Staples yesterday and saw this printer:
http://www.staples.com/Brother-MFC-J6920DW-Color-Inkjet-All-in-One-Printer/product_213372
I had been holding off buying the first generation duplex machines, so I bought this second generation.
$299 MSRP. Staples is selling for $229.99. They have a rebate for $50.00 on any old printer, so I brought my old one in, (since I needed room for the old one),
$179.99 for an all in one, 11x17, duplex printer/scanner/fax. Comes with Nuance PaperPort software which I have used before and has a good OCR MODULE.
I use 11x17 a lot, that is why I use Brother because there is not a lot of others out there at the same price point.
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I was in Staples yesterday and saw this printer:
http://www.staples.com/Brother-MFC-J6920DW-Color-Inkjet-All-in-One-Printer/product_213372
I had been holding off buying the first generation duplex machines, so I bought this second generation.
$299 MSRP. Staples is selling for $229.99. They have a rebate for $50.00 on any old printer, so I brought my old one in, (since I needed room for the old one),
$179.99 for an all in one, 11x17, duplex printer/scanner/fax. Comes with Nuance PaperPort software which I have used before and has a good OCR MODULE.
I use 11x17 a lot, that is why I use Brother because there is not a lot of others out there at the same price point.
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Gordon, Publison, are you both aware of what size the paper is for that style printer? The page is same size as the major newspapers, the Times (New York), the Chronicle in LA, some others.
I just bought a new printer from the Staples by me, that 50 dollar rebate was not brought up, in fact might have just been launched this month. Mine is a Work Force 2540, and setting it up on this machine was easy. Setting it up on the XP box was difficult but agreeable. Wifi only, not with the USB for it.
Except for one foray in the laser family of printers I've always used Epson printers, started out with an MX100 impact and finished it up with an involved multi-purpose one. That one and two others were also ink jet. I did try and get to work an HP job but it wasn't cooperative.
-Phil
Phil, Epson clogs are worst than an Achilles' heel, especially if you use a continuous ink supply system like I do. The best way around it is to make sure you print something, even a nozzle check, every few days. There are utilities to automate it, like Harvey Head Cleaner.
For my day-to-day office printing I use a Brother monochrome laser printer I picked up a Fry's a few years back for $59.
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Good to know.
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They are indeed. I had other problems with those earlier inkjet printers, including the company behaving like something else. I actually saw a very big printer for sale that day. It was indeed larger then 11x17. And a woman I know who taught art and how to appreciate art work, was given a very big printer that Epson made for special cases. I only saw several of them a while back.
Oh, to have a 11x17 laser printer. A printer like that would have cost an arm and a leg back then. Boeing Surplus?
Jim
-Phil
Among the least expensive 11x17 mono lasers is one by Ricoh. It's about $950. I still have a thing about Ricoh from the 70s and their 35mm cameras. Maybe their printers are better.
-Phil
On my Brother when it thinks it's out of toner, it just stops, and refuses to print even weak pages until I replace the cartridge.
All-in-all, though, nice printing for using crayons!
LOL
Photo work: EPSON (I love mine)
General Work w/ duplexing: There are good deals on HP inkjets and I've had good luck with them, very good mixed text/graphics. Consumables are high. Don't know how good brother inkjets are.
11x17 in laser is very expensive but there are a few details out there if you don't care about color.
Replacing the toner cartridge was part of an effort to correct some ghosting and light printing. I also replaced the transfer roller and high-voltage power supply -- all to no avail. Not wanting to throw more good money after bad, I said sayonara after 20 years and bought one of these from Office Depot:
I does everything my 4MV did -- but better and faster for a tenth the original price -- except print on 11x17 paper. Plus it prints both sides of the page, and toner is cheap. Setting it up on the network to print from Windows, Mac, and Linux (four computers total) was a cinch. It's also WiFi capable, but it can't do WiFi and Ethernet at the same time, so I'm using Ethernet.
-Phil
http://www.amazon.com/Brother-Printer-HL5470DW-Wireless-Monochrome/dp/B0081TYO72/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1384993354&sr=8-1&keywords=HL-5470DW
Is this the same printer? Our inkjet just died that we've had for ~4 years and I'm been looking on Amazon. I'm glad to hear all of the positive stuff about Brother's laser printers. I think we might get one.
That's a pretty good deal on a duplex laser.
Maybe legal size will work in a some instances to make up for the 11 x 17 ?
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Not only that, but the duplexing operation is just plain fun to watch. It partially deposits the page into the exit tray after printing the first side, then sucks it back in again to print the other side.
Yes, the printer's paper tray can be extended to handle legal-sized paper.
My current thinking is that, as infrequently as I need tabloid-sized output, it's cheaper just to get it printed at a local print shop on one of their fancy copy machines than to buy another printer that can do it. 'Same goes for color.
-Phil
You mean to tell me that there's a 4MV that still works?
Maybe I should try to hock the couple of toners for it that still exists in the storage room at my office?
(We 'lost' our only 4MV back in 2005 when a part of the organisation was split off, and they got a building and all equipment in it)
-Phil
An early 70's 400 LPM Line Printer. It was the system printer on my Singer/ICL mini.
New cost over $20,000
Size 6ftx3ftx4ft high
Installation - hire a crane and remove large window
Maintenance 10%pa
Code set - Upper Case ASCII only
Printer type - Drum with 132 columns and 132 hammers, Ribbon ~17" wide.
Paper - computer fanfold, tractor feed
Black print only
Final resting place ~2001 - China - sold for scrap and they shipped to China (also for gold recovery)
Ah, the good old days
That typewriter was truly a marvel -- probably the culmination of IBM's typewriter dominance. I'm sure it had more than 1000 moving parts, all powered by a huge AC motor and various belts and clutches. It had interchangeable type balls and could do not only standard fixed-width Courier, but also proportionally-spaced fonts, which I used to advantage producing brochures and ads for my fledgling mail-order software business.
The "75" met an ignoble but spectacular end, however. Once I moved on to more modern printers, my business partner at the time and I decided to use its carriage mechanism as part of an inverted broom-balancing demo. We plugged it in, started it up, and the poor thing destroyed itself before our eyes, like a washing machine loaded with bricks and set to "spin."
-Phil
My beefs with newer inkjets.
#1. Won't print black if one color cartridge is supposedly out.
#2. Won't print black if the cartridge hits ??25%??
#3. Takes 5 mins to boot.
#4. Ink cost.
Mine was an Olivetti Praxis plugged into an Osborne 1 "portable." The parallel interface was mail order, and I very carefully soldered it onto a board inside the printer.
It wasn't bad, but was terribly slow. The Praxis also had a problem of "shedding" its mylar ribbon, where the little debris then got into the codewheel electronics, and started mis7pelling t8ings.
My wife's first word processor used an ordinary IBM Selectric with a special base that electromechanically actuated the levers in the typewriter. This was circa 1977 or so. The units, made by Savin, stored the text on cassette tape. Little known factoid about the Selectrics is that they used a form of mechanical binary coding to select the character to type based on the key pressed.