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Grip It & Rip It
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MFP Printer Selection Help
I'm helping a lawyer set up a one person office and they need a multifunction printer. Can anyone recommend a good one. This person prints, scans and faxes fairly large documents so it has to handle a decent volume of work. The budget is up to 1k but less would be great.
I've been reading the reviews of different ones online and there doesn't seem to be a clear standout...they all seem to have problems.  Thx!
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Check out Samsung. They are bearing out HP these days. It's what I tend to recommend and buy.
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I have a HP Color Laserjet CM1312NFI MFP and I have to say it's the cat pajamas!
Faxes, Copies, prints, Ethernet, Scans it's great. The only negative (other than expensive toner) is it does not have a manual feed tray so you have to put everything in it's tray. It's been a real workhorse and the color (with good paper) is excellent. Good hunting
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Legal paper tray and a legal size scanning platform is probably a requirement.
Look carefully at the duty cycle, you really get what you pay for in mid-volume printers. I would focus on a Monochrome heavy duty unit, something from Dell or Lexmark; the departmental HP's are good but many of the consumer units have a 2 year life.
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there are lawyers today still using legal sized paper???
I am down on hp these days. Canon is another option. zdnet reviews these things periodically |
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Lawyers don't really use legal anymore. I have a few law clients and they all say that the only people still using legal are in real estate.
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02-21-2011, 07:24 PM
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I have installed a few Similar model Samsungs lately and they are nice.
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do you prefer Samsungs to Cannons?
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I'm on a Samsung kick right now. When I researched printers last year for a lawyer, HP was not getting favorable reviews, plus I had had some issues as well with them. I'd go Samsung.
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I'm a lawyer and I would never go back to using a multi-function machine. Single purpose machines do a much better job at what they are designed to do. For a scanner, I highly recommend your client go with a Fujitsu Scansnap S1500 for scanning. As for copying and printing I would go with one of the Brother products. Consistent quality, ease or replacement of toner and drum, great prices. Forget about getting a fax machine. They are so 20th century. For my fax needs I use Extreme Fax http://www.extremefax.com/ Faxes are sent and received on your computer. I even can have the faxes pushed to my iPhone. Comes with a toll free number. Costs around $80.00 per year.
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If you go the scansnap routs, make sure it is twain compliant. There is at least one model that does not and it's a bit of a pain. It won't let you scan from a program, such as Adobe Acrobat.
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