Recommended printers for mac

We are looking for recommendations for the best printers that play very well with a Mac. We have had Canon printers but the printer interface using the Mac is not as easy to use or as comprehensive as the Windows interface.

I have a Brother model DCP-7065dn "black and white only" laser printer, copier, scanner because I not need the hassles with color inks in a color ink-jet printer.  It has it's quirks but it does what I need it to do.  It gives me the print quality I want, easy scanning of stuff to my hard drive, double sided printing(albeit, for copying, having to manually feed two one-sided documents to make one two-sided copy) and the ability to do envelopes when I need to do them(albeit having to feed the envelopes one at time).  On a rating of 5 stars, I'd probably give it a 3.

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