Recommended B&W Laser Printers

Hi to all,
I have a macbook pro with the latest version of Snow Leopard. I want to buy a high quality black and white laser printer that works. I have tried so far Samsung, Canon, Brother and of course HP and I have problems with drivers or poor quality. I connect the printer to an airport express in order to make it wireless. Any recommendations, suggestions? I just want good quality text and a compact size printer with drivers that work, why is it so difficult?
Regards

Granted "third-world" definition is very vague, and probably too widely used. But you have to admit, if you were given pennies a day to make a printer, what incentive would you have to make the best printer in the market? Or even any printer whatsoever. Unfortunately this mass-produced economy of scale does not lend itself to truly high quality production. It is for all intents and purposes an oxymoron. You will certainly get many products that on the surface are great. But once you put these printers for consumer use to the day to day business use, you'll find a weakness here and there that just do not say 100% performance at a reliable pace. I've worked in an office environment for 12 years, and have never seen a printer that I can say works reliably. Printers just don't consistantly feed properly. Or if they have built-in duplex functions, they constantly get jammed. And then multifunction office copies have e-mail functions that half the time never get an e-mail out. I don't care if it is made by Lexmark, Xerox, HP, Canon, Epson, Brother, all of them I agree will have lemons, and most if not all have inconsistant performance. High quality comes only if you have a dedicated crew ensuring that a device is idiot proof from both the software and hardware point of view. If you find such a device, or build such a device, show me it, and I'll be glad to buy it.

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