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All in One Printer

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JCNiest5

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Okay, can someone suggest an All-in-One printer that has at least network (wireless is even better) built-in? Been looking at the HP 6310, but too many bad remarks give me a bad taste in the mouth to start with. I read remarks that the Canon Pixa line of printer offers really good prints. Any advice? Thanks...
 
I love my Brother mfc-440cn. Inkjet, obviously.. but prints look great, zero problems and I print out a LOT of stuff, probably 500-600pages/month. Just buy generic cartridges on ebay for $5/lot.

Network ready for printing, scanning, faxing, etc.
 
I have an HP 6310 set up, and i have no complaints. It sends clear, crisp faxes, prints nicely, and quickly, you can set up everything using its little lcd screen, and it feels solid, something many other printers, including HP's photo smart line, don't.
 
The Kodak Easyshare 5300 looks tempting but I read a lot of Print Head issues.......is that overblown or not?
 
I'd avoid HP all-in-ones. My experience with an HP 2840 has taught me that HPs have poor drivers and absolutely terrible software.
 
Every Epson I've owned has died an early death due to clogged print heads. Unless they have changed their design, I won't buy another.

I've lost 3 so far, including an expensive tabloid size printer.

I'm a Canon fan myself.

JCNiest5 said:
Is the Epson CX9400 any good?
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TechLarry said:
Every Epson I've owned has died an early death due to clogged print heads. Unless they have changed their design, I won't buy another.

I've lost 3 so far, including an expensive tabloid size printer.

I'm a Canon fan myself.
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I've had the same experience with Epson, two clogged print heads. You have to print something out of the Epson every three days or it will just stop working.

Never again... Canon all the way.
 
I bought an HP C6280 All-in-one and it's been great. It has built in duplexing and wired networking. The buttons on the front make it easy to send scans to different computers on your network. Push the Scan button, choose which computer you want the scan to go to, then choose PDF, OCR, Email, etc...and off it goes to that computer.

I used to have an Epson...never again...piece of JUNK.
 
I have the Canon PIXMA MX700 and it works great with my home network. My father can use it perfectly on his laptop downstairs using wireless.. and my two computers in my own room also can use the printer perfectly also. So it works great both through wired or wireless networking connections for me. I'm really happy with it :)
 
JCNiest5 said:
Okay, can someone suggest an All-in-One printer that has at least network (wireless is even better) built-in? Been looking at the HP 6310, but too many bad remarks give me a bad taste in the mouth to start with. I read remarks that the Canon Pixa line of printer offers really good prints. Any advice? Thanks...
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I have a Lexmark X5470 All-In-One and I'm really pleased with it. Great printer for the money!
 
Zepher said:
Is that the large color laserjet all-in-one?
What problems where you having with the software and drivers?
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We've had more problems than we could count (the printer is installed in an office, so by 'we' I mean the IT staff including myself). Features would stop working sometimes. The software would cause occasional CPU usage spikes and brief system hiccups. During software installation, it wouldn't detect the printer if it was networked so we had to plug in the USB (and use the USB for all scanning). We would get 'page too complex' errors with numerous printouts unless we disabled USB high-speed mode (we were printing out simple one-page spreadsheets with no graphics!). Other quirks that I didn't bother to remember (or never knew about since I'm not the one using the printer).

Uninstalling the software was a big relief even if the primary user couldn't scan to a file anymore. We told him to use the scanner on our Konica copiers for that.

On a side note (and I'm not sure if this particular HP AIO printer is causing it), but we keep getting numerous HPBPRO.exe and HPBOID.exe instances running on our file server at work. We haven't figured out how to fix it, so we just have to terminate the several dozen or so instances on occasion. I blame HP drivers for this, but I haven't tracked down which printer(s) is the culprit among our several dozen HP printers.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend HP all-in-one printers for home or business use. At least not these smaller models meant for home or SOHO use; I'm not sure about the larger and more expensive copier-like ones.
 
Most Brother AIOs have wired networking and the higher end have both wired an wireless. All functions are supported on the network unlike many AIOs. But I had read that their print output (esp photo - on the inkjets) wasn't up to the top two and they had serious reliability issues with earlier inkjet models. Guy up the thread says his output is good, but what is he comparing it to.

.bh.
 
Burning_Monk said:
I've had the same experience with Epson, two clogged print heads. You have to print something out of the Epson every three days or it will just stop working.

Never again... Canon all the way.
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My brother had an Epson CX6400 or something and it simply wouldn't work. The ink ran out and he has not used it for about a year. He finally went and bought new ink cartridges, install them in the order indicated. The LCD recognizes the new ink cartridges installed, but the printout would be blank. Tried test page, tried headclean page, etc... Nothing works. The inkheads dried up, I assume. Once that's the case, I guess you might as well take it to the recycling center. From that experience, I know I would never buy an Epson.

I do, however have an HP OfficeJet 6110 and it has worked flawlessly for the past four years I own it. However, the glass window used for copying and scanning has become fogged and I don't want to open it to clean. It still print and copy fine, but scanning, you can see all the streak of fog on the glass. Main reason I'm looking for a new one to replace it. But I would like one that has network built-in now (especially wireless). Much easier without cables running everywhere.
 
Pixma here. Very low cost of ownership, especially when compared to a Lexmark.
 
I had an old Canon i950 that sat for 18 months in a closet. I took it out and it printed the first page perfectly :)

I just recently gave it to my nephew who is happily printing along with it.

I now use a Pixma i8500. It's also sat for months at a time (I also have a color laser and b/w laser) and only use it for photo's. I've yet to have to clean the heads.

And even if it did fail, at least you can buy one and plug it in. Takes all of 30 seconds.

Burning_Monk said:
I've had the same experience with Epson, two clogged print heads. You have to print something out of the Epson every three days or it will just stop working.

Never again... Canon all the way.
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I HATE it when one of my users installs the software for their home HP Printer. If it would just install a driver I wouldn't mind much. But my god, all the CRAPWARE that comes along with it is just amazing sometimes.

We use driver-only installs for all the corporate HP lasers of course. Usually via iPrint but also via direct IP when needed.


Zepher said:
Is that the large color laserjet all-in-one?
What problems where you having with the software and drivers?
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One of the big problems with HP software in a corporate environment is all the chit-chat the printers and drivers like to continuously do. Add in the auto-updaters, phone-home crap, and other nonsense included with a CD install and you can end up with a real mess, and in a corporate invironment that's where a lot of your cpu spiking can come from. The chit-chat software, due to corporate firewalls, routers, etc... can't always see the printer and instead of saying "oh, well. I tried", it just keeps trying and trying and trying and trying until the user ends up calling the help desk with the inevitable "My computer is slow".

About 8 years ago you couldn't even remove the stuff sometimes, and we'd end up doing a re-image.

When we set up an HP, we take the disc away from them :) We put driver ONLY install folders in a maintenance folder on the drive of our loads, and point to them if we are doing a direct IP mapping, or iPrint will install the right driver automatically if it's on the iPrint server.



SockMan! said:
We've had more problems than we could count (the printer is installed in an office, so by 'we' I mean the IT staff including myself). Features would stop working sometimes. The software would cause occasional CPU usage spikes and brief system hiccups. During software installation, it wouldn't detect the printer if it was networked so we had to plug in the USB (and use the USB for all scanning). We would get 'page too complex' errors with numerous printouts unless we disabled USB high-speed mode (we were printing out simple one-page spreadsheets with no graphics!). Other quirks that I didn't bother to remember (or never knew about since I'm not the one using the printer).

Uninstalling the software was a big relief even if the primary user couldn't scan to a file anymore. We told him to use the scanner on our Konica copiers for that.

On a side note (and I'm not sure if this particular HP AIO printer is causing it), but we keep getting numerous HPBPRO.exe and HPBOID.exe instances running on our file server at work. We haven't figured out how to fix it, so we just have to terminate the several dozen or so instances on occasion. I blame HP drivers for this, but I haven't tracked down which printer(s) is the culprit among our several dozen HP printers.

All in all, I wouldn't recommend HP all-in-one printers for home or business use. At least not these smaller models meant for home or SOHO use; I'm not sure about the larger and more expensive copier-like ones.
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The Pixma's are really amazing. Tough as nails.

The only gripe I've ever heard about canon's is if you over-do head cleaning (which is never required with canon's if you use quality ink) it can fill the overflow pad and the printer is shut down until it is replaced.

It's not a common problem, but a real nuisance if it does happen as it's a bit expensive to get fixed I think.

I personally know of only one verifiable case of it happening.

Met-AL said:
Pixma here. Very low cost of ownership, especially when compared to a Lexmark.
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I am looking at printers as well (mostly MFC). I like the idea of the canon's (seperate ink cartridges) and ethernet is a definite (wireless not so much). I am starting a small business (sole employee and user for now) and need something that will print black on white text (that is professional looking) and will be able to do a decent job at marketing materials such as brochures, fliers, etc.

I have looked at the following Canons but I am open to other options:
MP620 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2316&cm_re=Canon_MP620-_-28-102-316-_-Product

MX700 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828102258&cm_re=mx700-_-28-102-258-_-Product

MX 860 - http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=Canon_PIXMA_MX860-_-28-102-357-_-Product

I did notice that the MX700 is available on new egg for $99 and on Amazon for $178. I missed the recertified deal that new egg had on this for $54 :(

Speed is not the highest issue (but would be nice). I hear the MX700 is the faster of these devices. Printing on front and back would be nice but is not a necessity (the MX 860 has a ADF which flips the paper). The MX700 has ADF but I do not think that it flips the paper and prints front and back. Fax would be nice (if it is included) but I think I am going with a linux VOCP for a voice/fax solution.

I do not care about printing pictures other than images/photos which will appear on my marketing tools.

As far as wireless goes (this is not a necessity since my servers and desktop are in the same room), if I am not mistaken, with a ethernet printer, can't you simply share the printer on a windows domain and point a laptop or desktop with wifi to that server (or desktop computer) and print via this method as well?

Any input you have would be welcome.

Thanks!
 
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