Multifunction laser printer recommendations

I'm looking for recommendations for a multifunction laser printer (print/copy/scan), color or monochrome that works well with the Imac 24. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Sorry, like I mentioned, familiar with regular laser printers ,but not with the multifunction printers. We have a pretty cool multi-funct here at work, but we're all on PC's.
HP is pretty good about supporting drivers for all HP consumer and business printers. Plus the Mac OSX print driver is smart and very compatible as is with a variety of printer makes.
check out HP's website to see what's available. Not sure if you're looking for high capacity/output or more for personal use?

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Which multifunction Laser printer (MFP) for Lion? - need multipage scanning through automatic document feeder

Hi all,
I'd love to get your advice on what MFP laser printer to buy.
I need:
- Laser color PRINTING for a small business (+/- 1500 pages per month)
- SCANNING, preferably easy multipage scanning through the automatic document feeder
Optionally:
- 2nd paper feed tray
I think of buying the HP Color LaserJet CM2320fxi, but there seem to be plenty of compatibility issues with Lion (e.g. scan to network folder does not work on Lion).
I'd love to hear about success or failure of MFP on Lion from HP, Brother, Xerox, Lexmark, etc...
Thx for your advace,
S.

I can recommend the Canon MF8380C. It has a document feeder that supports duplex scanning to Lion, either via Image Capture or Preview or 3rd party application like Acrobat Pro. You can also push scan documents from the machine by first configuring the scan settings using the Canon MF Toolbox that gets installed on the Mac.
The print quality is good for office documents, but not that accurate for colour proofing. It uses Canon's proprietary UFR2 v2.30 driver of which the Lion version of this driver is available from the Canon web.
As for the monthly volume, 1500 pages per month is the maximum recommended volume, so not sure if this would suit your business needs. It's recommended monthly volume is 800 colour pages.

Looking for laser printer recommendations (please read!)

I couldn't find a spot that fit this question and although I may not receive any answers here, this is a very active forum with members who are unafraid of new technology, so here's letting one rip...
OK, I've not had a laser printer in a number of years - when my beloved LaserWriter II NTX gave up the ghost. I find that I am lately, however, printing more and more text-only or text-heavy documents at home and going through black ink cartridges like a hungry lumberman through flapjacks. Although I've not looked into laser technology for years, I am wondering if it may not be more economical to print these pages on a 'personal' laser printer (I know that toner cartridges are not cheap, either, but they are less expensive, from what I've read, than using inkjet to print text-heavy documents) than to continue racking up rebate dollars by selling my soul for black ink cartridges.
So I am looking for a laser printer that can handle about 2,500-4,000 pages a month AND (here's the kicker!) have automatic duplex printing capabilities... I've never had this ability on a laser printer but I understand it's available on some models these days.
I'm not looking for an 'office capable' printer - maybe more like a 'small office'? No real need for Ethernet, yet, if it's a standard feature, I would certainly use it. A small footprint would be nice.
As I wander into the local Office Depot I am overwhelmed by the choices and yet stupefied to find that the 'hang tags' on many of the models don't really give too much information - page one can expect from a cartridge, connectivity options, duplexing capabilities (I seem to find none, yet am certain that I've read of their existence).
So my criteria:
1. monochrome
2. PostScript emulation (unless CUPS supports lasers? It'd difficult to tell by the ad hype yet Apple does seem to have drivers or, at least, Brother and HP laser printers). I don't want to be limited to 72 typefaces...
3. automated duplexing
4. small footprint
5. more economical to operate than an inkjet at 2,500-4000 pages per month
6. networkable, though served through another CPU via USB is fine
7. brand is not important - as long as reliability is high (and, like Brother, for instance, is supported by Apple)
Please leave a message if you should have ANY suggestions or, if you can point me towards a website with a good overview of what's available (and with actual tests would even be better!) I would be very appreciative.

Jamie,
I just wanted to thank you once again for your suggestion of the HP LaserJet 1320. I picked one up last week at Office Depot and, after I receive my $50 mail-in rebate, my total cost will have been $139.99!
The printer itself had an 'instant savings' of $100 off the SRP of $399.99 (and - for those who might be interested - this instant savings continues until June 30 - see the HP website for details.), bring it down to $299.99; I had an $100 Office Depot 'rewards' card plus a $10 'instant off' coupon from the previous week, bringing it down to $189.99 and there was a mail-in rebate for $50 (which, according to the paperwork, I can expect within 6 weeks) so... I was able to get a $400 printer for less than $140 (+ tax, of course).
Still, even with $14 tax, I have to assume that I would have paid at least as much in shipping AND I only had to drive for less than 5 miles, spend 20 minutes explaining why I did not want or need either the extended warranty or the Super Special Laser Printer Official Office Depot Very Special Customer Service Box (a cable, some paper, and a few other doodads for $60) and now I've printed a couple of hundred sheets and love the thing.
Had it not been for your recommendation, I likely would have forgotten the $100 Office Depot card until it expired and would not have sought out the printer there in the first place.
It's such a warm and fuzzy feeling to get such a deal on such a terrific little printer... and, so, I thank you, again.

Any Laser printer recommendations

Hi
We are thinking of purchasing a ne colour laser printer. Primarily it needs to have a good colour accuracy, and be able to print A3 or A3+ and preferably be able to duplex.
Most importantly though it needs to be compatible with QXP7. Our last printer an Epson Acu laser C8600 could not print out A4 sheets in the right orientation, unless you used the Generic colour settings in the print dialogue.
Quark blamed Epson, Epson blamed Quark.
Anyway that aside, does anyone have any recommendations?
Oh and it has to be available in the UK.

Hi
Sorry If I was being a bit vague.
We really don't need to get that nuch out of a printer. Our considerations will be based on colour accuarcy and compatability - Post script capability which I had omitted ia an essential. Then comes the abilty of the printer oversize A3 is really handy , as is duplexing, but we've made do without up until now.
I am quite aware of the major printer manufacturers, but was hoping for some user recommendations, really so that we could asscertain the real running costs. Although Our output is not high, maybe 1,000 copies a month,
poor reliability, whether you have a service contract or not costs time if you are always waiting for an engineer, and money when you have to source your output elsewhere.
We know there are many printers around and a fair few have reviews on trade related sites and in magazines, but nothing beats a users viewpoint, and these are not the cheapest pieces of equipment. For instance the lack of Quark compatability with the Epson was a surpise to us and is not mentioned in any review. Not that we've read anyway, although it has popped up in a few forum discussions.
What we would like to steer away from is getting locked into a contract. We were recently offered one very nice Xerox machine, but it only came with a monthly payment, service plan and an extra cost for every individual print exclusive of materials. Basically a neverending hore purchase.

Seeking Laser Printer Recommendations

I've been out of the tech market for a while now and I don't know if specs matter but they are below. I want a color laser printer with which I can print bumper stickers, fine detailed artwork, various grades of paper, and iron-ons. My budget is $1000.00.
iBook G4
Machine Model: PowerBook6,7
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
CPU Speed: 1.33 GHz
Memory: 512 MB
Thanks.

Thanks SnazzyD
I have a Samsung CLP 500 which have had for three years and has given good service. It now needs a new transfer belt and imaging unit which would cost about £200 so I was thinking that it would make more sense to buy a new printer altogether and get the benefits of a guarantee. Whilst reliable the CLP 500 is a bit of a big beast and was hoping for a smaller desk footprint and lighter weight.
Which Samsung do you have?
PS good to see that our canadian cousins can still spell colour correctly;-)

Multifunction production printer recommendations

We're an architects practice looking at getting a new multifunction printer.
Currently we have the Canon CLC 4040 with Fiery controller:
http://www.canon.co.uk/for_work/products/professional_print/digital_colour_produ ction/CLC4040/
And we're being pushed the Ricoh MP C4501 with Fiery controller:
http://ricoh.co.uk/products/multifunction-printers/multifunction-colour/aficiomp -c4501.aspx
What are others using out there at the moment? Any recommendations? Anyone using the Ricoh MP C4501?
One thing that bugs me about Fiery controllers is that the drivers aren't integrated into the Mac printer interface very well, so a production quality machine without a Fiery controller would interest us.

Hello Christiaan,
With regards to the Fiery controller, EFI have just released the Fiery Express Driver to support printing from Lion. This driver has reduced printer functions such as;
Duplex – allows the automatic printing of a sheet of paper on both sides;
Staple – turns stapling on/off;
Output Paper Size – allows selection of different paper sizes from a list. The supported paper sizes are:
Letter – 8.5x11
Legal – 8.5x14
Tabloid – 11x17
12x18
13x19
A5
A4
A3
SRA3
Color Mode - The different native colour models supported for printing are:
CMY—Cyan-magenta-yellow colour model.
CMYK—Cyan-magenta-yellow-black colour model.
RGB—Red-green-blue colour model.
Gray—Gray-scale colour model.
Composite Overprint - All colours used for data are overlaid and printed on one plate so you can check the finished result without separating the colours.
They also state that "for users who want to print using Fiery features they should print to the Fiery “Held” queue then use Command WorkStation 5.x to edit the Job Properties."
Also, with regards to internal print controller vs the Fiery, what you have to understand is that the Fiery is a dedicated print controller. It has no other task but to process spooled print jobs. But the internal print board of a copier has to share its processes with other functions, even if these functions are not being used. So in my experience I have not seen an internal printer board that processes faster than a Fiery. But that experience is based on desktop publishing. I've no experience with supporting architectural applications.
Sorry about the indented bulleted paper and colour mode lists. In the Full Text Editor they look correct but change back to one level when saved.
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Need a WiFi laser printer recommendation for Lion and iOS

I'm looking to get a new printer.
Here are my needs...
Home printing, maybe 10-20 pages per week
Scanner built in
Laser (I'm tired of being bled dry with HP's $30 ink jet cartridges that last only a month or two). Color is not important
WiFi and reliable, at that...my current WiFI printer goes to sleep and doesn't wake up unless you go to the printer and press a button
Budget $100-$200
While I don't regularly need to print from iDevices, if it did it would be nice, this is not a top priority.
I've done online searching and as soon as I see an attractive model, the ratings say "doesn't work with Lion"
Thanks!

I was in the same boat some months ago, and went with Brother MFC 9120CN. Its a bit over budget but fantastic, just works. They have a BW version as well which should fit your budget. (Never try Samsung had to send 5! back to factory..)
Hope that helps

Laser printer recommendations please

I need a printer that will work well with my 2008 iMac (Snow Lep) ideally wirelessly. I need printing, scanning and copying - not huge quantities but need the quality to be good. My budget is around £150 and if I can find something that doesn't require cartridges that cost £1m each that would be a bonus! There is so much contradictory info out there any recommendations would be gratefully received.

got a Samsung SCX-4500W
it's laserprinter, scanner, copy
it's wifi
it works on osx it works on windows8 pro
it works on iphone and ipad (if I use the free samsung printing app)
or if I use the netgear Genie program running on one of the computers

Canon MF4207 MultiFunction Laser Printer won't work with TCP/IP

Bought this printer. Very cool. Great quality. Fast...
But, we can't even get a "ping" via TCP/IP. We're about to take it back. Looking at other threads, do Canon's not work with Mac's on networks (even though their documentation says they do)?
Anyone with ideas?
Running both from a ether wired imac and a wireless powerbook. All on 10.4.?.
Thanks
Doug

First of all, Canon's designed for network printing do work. Most of the posts you have probably seen are for printers that haven't been designed for network printing, yet the users are still trying to configure them this way???
Looking at the manual, there a couple of things you need to do to print across a network.
As Kappy suggested, the first thing you need to do is configure the IP address of the MF4270. By default, the machine is set to DHCP, but if you don't have something on your network allocating addresses, then it will be set to all zero's.
Now you mention it won't ping, so we could make the assumption that you have set an appropriate IP address for your network and the machine is not responding. To be sure that you do have this set to the same subnet as your Mac network, print a User Data List.
Additional Functions > 11. Report Settings > OK > 2. List Print > 9. User Data List > OK
This will show you the IP address and subnet mask. It will also show you if LPD and RAW (Port 9100) print services have been enabled.
If you do not have an appropriate IP address set, then you need to press Additional Functions and scroll to 12. System Settings.
Press OK and scroll to 2. Network Settings then press OK.
This will show TCP/IP Settings. Press OK.
Scroll to 1. IP Address Auto and press OK. It will show ON. Scroll so it shows OFF and then press OK.
Now scroll to 2. IP Address and press OK. This will show the current address. Using the numeric keypad enter the desired IP address for the printer. Press OK to complete.
Now scroll to 3. Subnet Mask and input the appropriate subnet mask and press OK.
Now you can press the Stop/Reset key to exit and maybe print another User Data list to ensure the settings you entered are correct.
Now that you have the IP address set, you need to install the Canon UFR2 v1.60 driver for Mac OS X. If this version didn't come with the machine you can download it from the Canon web site.
Once you have run this driver installer you are ready to add the printer. Open the Printer Setup Utility and select Add. Select More Printers. Now select 'Canon IP (UFR II)'. This will show a pane allowing you to enter the IP address of the printer. It also wants a queue name. Enter LP for the queue name. Click Add and wait as the driver software will now query the printer and auto select the appropriate ppd. Once this is complete the MF4270 will appear in the Printer List.

Recommendations for Laser Printer

I need a low cost ($200-400) color laser printer with reasonably fast printing pages per minute, especially in black and white. It will be attached mostly to a an iBook running the latest OS X. It will also be attached occasionally to a Dell Latitude. Anybody got an ideas?

Jamie,
I just wanted to thank you once again for your suggestion of the HP LaserJet 1320. I picked one up last week at Office Depot and, after I receive my $50 mail-in rebate, my total cost will have been $139.99!
The printer itself had an 'instant savings' of $100 off the SRP of $399.99 (and - for those who might be interested - this instant savings continues until June 30 - see the HP website for details.), bring it down to $299.99; I had an $100 Office Depot 'rewards' card plus a $10 'instant off' coupon from the previous week, bringing it down to $189.99 and there was a mail-in rebate for $50 (which, according to the paperwork, I can expect within 6 weeks) so... I was able to get a $400 printer for less than $140 (+ tax, of course).
Still, even with $14 tax, I have to assume that I would have paid at least as much in shipping AND I only had to drive for less than 5 miles, spend 20 minutes explaining why I did not want or need either the extended warranty or the Super Special Laser Printer Official Office Depot Very Special Customer Service Box (a cable, some paper, and a few other doodads for $60) and now I've printed a couple of hundred sheets and love the thing.
Had it not been for your recommendation, I likely would have forgotten the $100 Office Depot card until it expired and would not have sought out the printer there in the first place.
It's such a warm and fuzzy feeling to get such a deal on such a terrific little printer... and, so, I thank you, again.

Recommend new colour laser printer? Small and wifi capable for latest apple products,

Which new colour laser printer? I need small as possible, but wifi capable for latest apple products (OS 10.7 and mobile iOS 5). Not used wifi printing before, so getting confused with specs. Not high usage, want better speed than inkjet

Icpap wrote:
You mentioned some office-level multifunction copier, though, costing more: which one would that be?
The new imageRUNNER ADVANCE C2225 with the Booklet Finisher-M1. This finisher will fold and saddle-stitch your booklet on the fly for up to 5 sheets of A4 paper - making a 20 page booklet. And the printer driver for OS X will re-order the pages in your document so you don't have to get the page order correct before you send the print job.

Can anyone recommend a Multi-function black and white laser printer for that works with Mountain Lion? The MFP can be either 3-in-1 or 4-in-1 i.e with fax

can anyone recommend a Multi-function black and white laser printer for that works with Mountain Lion?
The MFP can be either 3-in-1 or 4-in-1 i.e with fax

I bought an epson xp650 a couple of months ago and cannot fault it. It does everything I require and it is the wifi model so I can print directly from my ipad/iphone. Not sure if you are asking about the colour of the unit or just to be able to print black and white, Obviously all printers will print black and white but just to give you a little more info the printer I bought is the white version and it looks really nice sat next to my imac 27''
Hope this helps.

Can anyone recommend a laser printer for Mac OS 10.7.3?

I recently bought a new iMac only to discover my old samsung printer is not compatible. Any suggestions on a new laser printer?

And a third.
I like this one: http://www.brother-usa.com/printer/ModelDetail.aspx?ProductID=HL2270DW#
Street price is about $100.
I have an earlier model, since discontinued. It's 100% reliable and about $1100 less than the last laser printer I bought.
If you're in the market for a printer I strongly recommend a manufacturer that actively supports OS X, Lion in particular, and does not treat the Mac market as an afterthought. Wireless network capable is a must. Brother meets all those requirements.
AirPrint would be nice but is not necessary - there are alternatives to AirPrint.
What model Samsung printer do you have? There may be a way to make it work. Here are a couple potentially relevant posts:
Samsung ML-2545 Laser Printer
What Samsung Printer Drivers work with Lion?

Recommendation for color laser printer

What is a decent color laser printer to use with Airport Express? I don't print a lot (perhaps a couple of hundred pages per month), so having separate toner cartridge for each CMYK color isn't necessary.

I believe this link is a good place to start.
http://guide.apple.com/index.lasso

Looking for recommendations for a good small color laser printer

My trusty Canon inkjet is on its last legs and I am considering getting a color laser printer.
I need it to have ethernet so all computers on my home LAN can print to it.
I am currently looking at the Samsung CPL-315W and the HP Color LaserJet CP1518ni Printer.
Pros: Samsung is smaller than the HP
Samsung toner is cheaper
HP print quality is rumored to be better
Cons:
Samsung toner is more difficult to find locally
HP printer is more expensive ($309 compared to $199)
If you have any advice or experience with these printers, I would appreciate it.
Chris
Austin, TX

hi cejones,
Did you end up finding a printer?
I'm looking as well. I have the Samsung clp-510 and while it's very reliable, the UI for mac is terrible. So terrible in fact that I still have it connected to a PC b/c their UI is much better for controlling colour etc..
i'm looking for a wireless solution.
Cheers

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