Looking for Printer/scanner

I am seeking advice on the best A3 colour laser printer for my imac (osx 10.5.7) and also a scanner - one that takes top quality scans (like photo quality).
I print artists handmade books, photographs and erratic volumes of material.
I use the scanner to 'create' artworks by arranging objects directly onto the screen to scan as well as original artworks (paintings, prints, etc).
thanks in advance >>> Gina

I have had good results from the Brother MFC line of color lasers. They are not the fastest scanners I have found but they do work well and have decent resolution.

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As I understand it you can print color everywhere but from MS Word 2013? If this is the case try the steps I have outlined below to see if they resolve your issue:
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I decided to bite the bullet and make a forum post before giving in to my frustration and chucking the thing out the window... I am running OS 10.6.8 on a mid-2008 MacBook and have an HP Photosmart C4385 all-in-one wirelessly connected. Well, connected is perhaps too strong a term. It works great about 50% of the time, and the other 50% I spend trying to coax my computer to find it. When I go to print something I get the "Looking for printer... Printer offline" message. I've been all over the HP site (you can imagine how helpful that was) and, as suggested, tried printing a config page and typing the printer's URL into the browser, but the page doesn't load. Here are some of the specs from the config page:
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I understand the printer keeps losing the network connection.
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