Value colour laser printer / scanner required

[Louis Balfour]

Since WFH our office HP multi-purpose machine is getting hammered. So I am looking at putting a separate one in the house.

It needs to be:

Colour
Laser
Pinter
Scanner
Compatible cartridges available.

Am I as well just picking something out from Argos, or is there a go-to supplier of the moment that I haven't yet discovered?

Many thanks.

Edited by Louis Balfour on Saturday 16th January 13:11

[Mr Pointy]

You can start out by looking at what is available: home office grade laser printers are like gold dust at the moment.

[Louis Balfour]

Mr Pointy said:

You can start out by looking at what is available: home office grade laser printers are like gold dust at the moment.

You don't surprise me. Argos has some it appears, but people on PH have a knack of knowing where to procure things.

[indigochim]

We have a HP 175nw which I think is in the budget multifunction laser price point. I think the current version is the HP Laser MFP 179fnw. We use compatible toner and it's generally ok, downsides which I think the current model also has is that it can't automatically print or scan both sides, I think the duplex option comes at a higher model.

[Louis Balfour]

indigochim said:

We have a HP 175nw which I think is in the budget multifunction laser price point. I think the current version is the HP Laser MFP 179fnw. We use compatible toner and it's generally ok, downsides which I think the current model also has is that it can't automatically print or scan both sides, I think the duplex option comes at a higher model.

Is that mono only, not colour?

[indigochim]

Nope it's colour That's the 1st sales place in a google search so no idea if they're any good or if the price is right.

[Louis Balfour]

indigochim said:

Nope it's colour That's the 1st sales place in a google search so no idea if they're any good or if the price is right.

Ah OK thanks But out of stock!

[alscar]

I bought the HP proM283 fdw but this was back in the Summer and a right pain to get hold of one which eventually found in John Lewis online.
Great machine and does everything you want.
It was £300 and HP were doing a £75 promotional money back on it which they often do apparently.

[HiAsAKite]

Thread revival time folks!

Completely naffed off with our current HP deskjets ability to print 40 or pages and then declare the carridge dead.

Going to go laser, looking for something with colour, duplex printing, wifi and ideally scanning (though could just use the deskjet as a scanner).

Recommendations/what do you folks use?

Its for home use, kids homework, plus wifes business. I'd estimate 30-100 pages per month.


Currently using the deskjet for some of the above, and external print shop for the rest.

Ive being eyeing up the xerox c315.. interested in opinions good or bad.

Edited by HiAsAKite on Thursday 5th January 21:57

[S6PNJ]

Would you consider a new HP Inkjet that uses their Instant Ink system? https://instantink.hpconnected.com/uk/en/l/v2 the 50 page per month carries forward unused pages, so 30 pages one month allows you 70 pages the next.

Would you consider a second hand laser? I have an MFP M475DW that scans etc and can use non OEM toner (last set of 4 toners cost me £20 - that's for all 4 from eBay, not per toner). Anything from that family line should take non OEM toner.

If brand new laser, find something from here: https://www.printerland.co.uk/printers/laser/colou... then see if it will take non OEM cartridges.

[Mr Penguin]

I bought a Brother HL-L3230CDW a week ago, and so far, its great. Its much quieter than the old inkjet, which you could hear from anywhere in the house - now the noisiest part of printing is the friction from the paper and not the mechanical noise. It takes about 15 seconds to print the first page, then it will do about 20 per minute (double sided). Its also connected via WiFi.

The downside is it doesn't have a scanner.

[pubrunner]

I'm looking for exactly the same thing - a colour laser printer with the facility to scan documents.

I won't be buying an Epsom device :

https://www.rtmworld.com/news/epson-says-it-will-q...

[Road2Ruin]

We have an OKI and Brother in the office. Both mid price £350-500. For us the important bit was the availability of good price compatible cartridges. The oem ones are hundreds, compatibles about £50 for a full set. Been using them for years now.

[pubrunner]

I've just had a look at an HP Colour LaserJet Pro M283fdw- which has been previously recommended earlier on this thread, but a review on Amazon says that "they've changed the printer drivers so the printer locks up if you try to use any non-HP toner".

Is this the case for all HP devices ?

As mentioned on the Amazon reviews, buying a set of HP Original toners for a HP Colour LaserJet Pro M283fdw, is about the same as buying a new device.

I want a colour laser with scanner, with the facility to use 'compatible' toner cartridges; my concern, is that printer drivers may prevent non-original cartridges from working.

[pubrunner]

Road2Ruin said:

We have an OKI and Brother in the office. Both mid price £350-500. For us the important bit was the availability of good price compatible cartridges. The oem ones are hundreds, compatibles about £50 for a full set. Been using them for years now.

I'd be very interested to know, what specific models these are . . . thank you !

I'm currently leaning towards one of these, which appears to do all that I require and can take compatible cartridges :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-MFC-L3710CW-Print...

Edited by pubrunner on Friday 6th January 09:45

Edited by pubrunner on Friday 6th January 09:56

[Mr Pointy]

pubrunner said:

Road2Ruin said:

We have an OKI and Brother in the office. Both mid price £350-500. For us the important bit was the availability of good price compatible cartridges. The oem ones are hundreds, compatibles about £50 for a full set. Been using them for years now.

I'd be very interested to know, what specific models these are . . . thank you !

I'm currently leaning towards one of these, which appears to do all that I require and can take compatible cartridges :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brother-DCP-L3550CDW-Wire...

The Brother printers & in particular the 3550 are a popular choice as the range of non toner-locked brands seems to be reducing. when I was looking I liked the small Xerox range but no non-OEM toner was available & still isn't. I ended up with the MFC-L3750CDW as the 3550 was out of stock at the time but they are very similar really. Just watch out are there are quite a few similar but slightly different models but some don't have network connectivity.

https://www.printerland.co.uk/printers/brother/las...

[pubrunner]

Mr Pointy said:

The Brother printers & in particular the 3550 are a popular choice as the range of non toner-locked brands seems to be reducing. when I was looking I liked the small Xerox range but no non-OEM toner was available & still isn't. I ended up with the MFC-L3750CDW as the 3550 was out of stock at the time but they are very similar really. Just watch out are there are quite a few similar but slightly different models but some don't have network connectivity.

https://www.printerland.co.uk/printers/brother/las...

Thank you for taking the time to reply; the Brother MFC-L3750CDW gets excellent reviews and I've put it in pole position as my next purchase - looks ideal to me.

[Mr Pointy]

pubrunner said:

Mr Pointy said:

The Brother printers & in particular the 3550 are a popular choice as the range of non toner-locked brands seems to be reducing. when I was looking I liked the small Xerox range but no non-OEM toner was available & still isn't. I ended up with the MFC-L3750CDW as the 3550 was out of stock at the time but they are very similar really. Just watch out are there are quite a few similar but slightly different models but some don't have network connectivity.

https://www.printerland.co.uk/printers/brother/las...

Thank you for taking the time to reply; the Brother MFC-L3750CDW gets excellent reviews and I've put it in pole position as my next purchase - looks ideal to me.

If you compare the 3550 & 3750 on the Printerland website you will see they are are almost exactly the same except that the 3750 has a higher print speed & fax capabilites. If these aren't important then you could save around £40.

Note neither of these has a duplexing ADF for the scanner/copier so you have to turn the original over to scan the second side. If you need this then you would need to go up to the 3770 but it's larger & more expensive & I rarely use the ADF anyway so I didn't bother. The 3550 & 3570 do duplex print of course..

[pubrunner]

Mr Pointy said:

If you compare the 3550 & 3750 on the Printerland website you will see they are are almost exactly the same except that the 3750 has a higher print speed & fax capabilites. If these aren't important then you could save around £40.

Note neither of these has a duplexing ADF for the scanner/copier so you have to turn the original over to scan the second side. If you need this then you would need to go up to the 3770 but it's larger & more expensive & I rarely use the ADF anyway so I didn't bother. The 3550 & 3570 do duplex print of course..

Cheers for this extra information.

I'm not bothered about duplexing for copying/scanning - I'm perfectly happy to turn the sheet over by hand.

The footprint of the 3550 & 3750 is smaller than many other similar devices, so that's also a 'plus'.

Thank you again, for your help - having a personal recommendation is always a good thing.

[dundarach]

I know it's not what you want, however having had everything up to and including an expensive desktop canon colour photocopier printer, I'm now with HP instant ink.

If ultimate speed isn't an issue, the device (and ink) has been flawless for several years.

Just an alternative.