Re: Printer Recommendations For Mac

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Hi all, Currently trying to narrow down the options for choosing a compatible label printer to be used in a primarily Mac OSX environment (50 or so MacBooks/iMacs and only about 10 windows 7 laptops). Not everyone will be using them, but only a few will be printing UPS/FedEx labels daily.

In the past I was using a small Zebra printer hooked up to a desktop as a print server and it worked well. I wondering if I should stick with Zebra (though I am not sure if there are issues with drivers) or if anyone knows a better option that will work with OSX?

I have a Canon MF8280 multifunction color laser that has run fine wirelessly for the last year or so. It doesn't like weak wireless connections but is fine as long as the signal is OK. It comes with 'starter' toner cartridges that run out much too soon, but the replacements have lasted well. I think it's been replaced by a new model though.

I'd definitely look at Brother if you don't need best photo rendition. I generally tend to recommend laser over inkjet. Inkjet does best with steady but low volume printing. If the printer sits idle for a few days (thus provoking a head cleaning cycle), or if volume is high, inkjet can be very expensive to run. Have a HP OfficeJet pro 6970.never had a wifi issue and the printer is two rooms away from the router. Quality and integration with Mac's, work laptops, iphone's and iPad is great. I also subscribe to HP's Instant Ink thing, where you pay £1.99 month for up to 50 pages.

For £24 quid a year, I get as many ink cartridges as I need, never run out as they send them as automatically beforehand and I can increase / decrease my subscription as needed (useful when the girl had exam month and was printing loads that month). Not a fan of subscription models normally, but this one really works for my needs, isn't expensive and is very convenient. BTW, I only use the scanner for when I have something important. Normally I use the iScanner app on my iPhone, went with the free trial then upgraded to the paid for version. Very happy with it and easier than faffing with the scanner. Click to expand.I have a Brother Black and White laser printer/scanner (HL-L2380DW). I don't really do photo printing at home and since I rarely print something I would essentially almost have to by new ink cartridges when I wanted to print something with my old ink jet.

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The laser is nice and suits my needs perfectly. The sample cartridge lasted me a year and it has been another year of printing and I haven't run out of toner yet. Best of all the toner cartridges are cheaper than my old ink cartridges. Click to expand.Ease of use. Physical Scanner: Have to be near a scanner, take document to device, wait for it to warm up, do it's pre-scan thing and then scan.

Have to go back to your laptop, save the file within your file structure. Scanner App: Always have it with you in your pocket, open the app and it's ready to scan. Auto-saved and easy to retrieve. Can email / text straight from the app. Quality is better on the physical scanner, and if you have a sheet feeder then scanning many pagers is better, but if you have only one A4 document to scan, the app is just easier and quicker.

Will echo what others have said: me, I'd go with a laser printer. I have been using a Brother printer & scanner for years now and get years of use per toner cartridge.

Now, I print less and less every year. Maybe a couple of pages a year, and probably could live without a printer these days as more and more enterprises are going paperless (eg.

Boarding passes, tickets). Scanner function, have not used in a while as I have been using my iPhone to scan in via Notes the odd document I want to save as a PDF. Physical Scanner: Have to be near a scanner, take document to device, wait for it to warm up, do it's pre-scan thing and then scan.

Have to go back to your laptop, save the file within your file structure. Scanner App: Always have it with you in your pocket, open the app and it's ready to scan. Auto-saved and easy to retrieve. Can email / text straight from the app. Quality is better on the physical scanner, and if you have a sheet feeder then scanning many pagers is better, but if you have only one A4 document to scan, the app is just easier and quicker. Click to expand.Yeah, Brother laser printers are total workhorses in my experience, and cheap as hell to run.

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The one I currently have set me back a whopping $125 or so, does duplex printing and has wifi. Looking at my printer stats page, it's jammed a grand total of twelve times out of nearly 13,000 prints. And that's using the most basic paper I can get my hands on. Got curious about my total cost/page just now. Looking at my status page, I see I've replaced the drum once ($75) and used 5 toner packs (average let's say $45 each). Add in paper (26 reams @ let's say $5 each) and I get a grand total of $430 for consumables, plus the cost of the printer itself (let's call that $125) - now I'm up to $555.

Divide that by the 12,789 pages I've printed and I get about 4.3¢/page, not including electricity. I can't speak to the scanner situation, but I did buy my mom one of the Brother B&W laser all-in-ones with a scanner/fax/printer. The printer part looks pretty much the same as mine, and the whole unit seems to be running quite nicely.

The few times I've used the scanner and document feeder, it's worked fine. But that's all very light usage. Physical Scanner: Have to be near a scanner, take document to device, wait for it to warm up, do it's pre-scan thing and then scan. Have to go back to your laptop, save the file within your file structure. Scanner App: Always have it with you in your pocket, open the app and it's ready to scan. Auto-saved and easy to retrieve.

Can email / text straight from the app. Quality is better on the physical scanner, and if you have a sheet feeder then scanning many pagers is better, but if you have only one A4 document to scan, the app is just easier and quicker. Yeah, Brother laser printers are total workhorses in my experience, and cheap as hell to run. The one I currently have set me back a whopping $125 or so, does duplex printing and has wifi.

Looking at my printer stats page, it's jammed a grand total of twelve times out of nearly 13,000 prints. And that's using the most basic paper I can get my hands on.

Got curious about my total cost/page just now. Looking at my status page, I see I've replaced the drum once ($75) and used 5 toner packs (average let's say $45 each). Add in paper (26 reams @ let's say $5 each) and I get a grand total of $430 for consumables, plus the cost of the printer itself (let's call that $125) - now I'm up to $555. Divide that by the 12,789 pages I've printed and I get about 4.3¢/page, not including electricity. I can't speak to the scanner situation, but I did buy my mom one of the Brother B&W laser all-in-ones with a scanner/fax/printer.

The printer part looks pretty much the same as mine, and the whole unit seems to be running quite nicely. The few times I've used the scanner and document feeder, it's worked fine. But that's all very light usage. Click to expand.Interesting stuff.just did a rough and ready calculation using your quantity against costs for the HP. Tried to keep the comparison fair and objective. The long story short is the HP cost for that volume would roughly be £544, or $777. Per page that works out at 4.3 pence, or 5.6 cents/page.

To put that another way, it's 30% more expensive for the HP printer!! The Brother definitely works out a lot cheaper. What I don't know is if your printing / costs has been mainly been colour or black & white. The HP instant ink thing is the same if you're printing full page, full colour photos or a B&W letter. That's the only variable left for the OP to consider.but I'm very impressed with your numbers and as long as the OP isn't doing much fancy work then the Brother should be the one to go for based on cost.

Interesting stuff.just did a rough and ready calculation using your quantity against costs for the HP. Tried to keep the comparison fair and objective. The long story short is the HP cost for that volume would roughly be £544, or $777. Per page that works out at 4.3 pence, or 5.6 cents/page. To put that another way, it's 30% more expensive for the HP printer!! The Brother definitely works out a lot cheaper.

What I don't know is if your printing / costs has been mainly been colour or black & white. The HP instant ink thing is the same if you're printing full page, full colour photos or a B&W letter.

That's the only variable left for the OP to consider.but I'm very impressed with your numbers and as long as the OP isn't doing much fancy work then the Brother should be the one to go for based on cost. Click to expand.There's a status page you can bring up in your browser, also lets you tweak settings and such. I think a lot of printers have things like this now. I got the number of reams of paper by just dividing my total page count by 500 (number of sheets in a standard ream). The model I have (HL2270-DW) has been superceded a few times, but I think the new ones are basically the same but have handy little status screens on them.

If you keep an eye on Wirecutter, you can catch them on sale for as little as $100 or so, but they will come with a 'starter' toner you have to replace within like 1,000 pages.