Favorite color laser for small business

[Rosco]

I have a small business client that needs a workhorse of an all-in-one printer. They also needed to be color. I usually go with one of the bigger brothers, but I was wondering what everyone else recommends.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Brother

 

[Rosco]

Brother

I love brother. Rarely venture to others except if the client insists.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

HP first choice..
Canon second
Brother third

Of the HPs, I'd reach for the Laser Jet Pro MFP 428 right now.

 

[phaZed]

Brother. I have an HL-L8360CDW color laser and it's rock-solid. Love it.

 

[britechguy]

I've had great luck with Canon's printers for many, many years now.

That being said, I've heard good things about Brother and Epson.

HP used to be the gold standard, but, alas, seems to have lost much of its shine.

 

[frecklesnoot]

I'm using a Brother MFC-9335CDW, it has been a rock solid unit.

Need to replace both toners and drums, but has never missed a beat.

I have it setup on the network and run it from there.

 

[DRPCNZ]

Another vote for Brother Colour Laser from me also

 

[HCHTech]

Of the HPs, I'd reach for the Laser Jet Pro MFP 428 right now.

I've got a HP M479dfw that I've been beating up for 3 years now, no complaints (other than the stupid 1/2-ream paper tray), but as I recall it was the better part of $800.

 

[nlinecomputers]

I've got a HP M479dfw that I've been beating up for 3 years now, no complaints (other than the stupid 1/2-ream paper tray), but as I recall it was the better part of $800.

$800 and only get a 1/2 ream tray? Geez.

 

[Markverhyden]

$800 and only get a 1/2 ream tray? Geez.

Not sure about other OEM's but virtually all of HP's business class MFP's support a second, much larger, tray. But I agree, for those prices they could of at least put in a tray for a full ream.

 

[John Kennedy]

+1 for Brother products. However, if the printer needs to be able to do a lot of work, I also really like Ricoh for high-use scenarios. Brother tends to be very good for light to moderate use, but rarely as good in the heavier-use situations. Such situations also usually are better with separate printers and scanners (like at doctor offices).

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Brother tends to be... for light to moderate use, but rarely as good in the heavier-use situations.

Fully agree. A "you get what you pay for" thing. Fine for residential, SOHO, and much smaller businesses with light printing needs.

 

[HCHTech]

$800 and only get a 1/2 ream tray? Geez.

Right? Once upon a time, all of their mid-class business lasers had full-ream trays! I'm sure in the march for ever greater margins, some math was done (or maths were done for everybody except the US) and now it's only available as an add-on. I just peeked at the pricing - $200-$300!

 

[nlinecomputers]

+1 for Brother products. However, if the printer needs to be able to do a lot of work, I also really like Ricoh for high-use scenarios. Brother tends to be very good for light to moderate use, but rarely as good in the heavier-use situations. Such situations also usually are better with separate printers and scanners (like at doctor offices).

A doctor or lawyer needs a good Fuji scanner to handle all that.

 

[Ken's PC Repair]

Another vote for Brother. I have an MFC-9340CDW I've been using in the shop for 8-9 years now. Thing is a workhorse!

 

[thecomputerguy]

M283CDW Available at my local costco for $450, I pick them up and resell them for $600

They're fine.

 

[alexsmith2709]

HP first choice..
Canon second
Brother third

Of the HPs, I'd reach for the Laser Jet Pro MFP 428 right now.

I agree with this list.
HP used to use Canon technology, but that ended a few years ago and they've now bought Samsung's printer division (urgh), but so far they seem to have kept on track with good printers.
Canon make good stuff, but HP just made it better when they were licensing it. I find Canon's to be a little on the slower side and the menu system not quite as good. The cartridges used to be the same thing so quality was exactly the same.
Brother make good black and white machines. Some of their colour machines are ok, but they are not always produced to match the page yield as HP or Canon (sticking with around 1000 pages for the cartridges, rather than an option for multiple thousands like the others)

 

[Erratic]

Brother for sure

 

[HCHTech]

Every time I read the title of this thread, I want to say "Green! My favor color [of] laser for small businesses is green!". There. Now I've said it, so maybe my brain will leave me alone next time.