Looking for a quality mono laser printer for a decent price. Toner would have to be affordable (lol) as well too. Any tips or preferences?

 

i have been buying brother printers for work for a while.

we have a bunch of HL-1440s all over the place. plus the fax machines i' also buying are toner compat with the 1440.

so i was at costco last week and i see a brother network-abled, 2 tray monster for $279...

 

I agree, we got a brother mono at costco about 1 year ago and just finnished with the first toner cartrage. It got out about 4000 pages, and that was the low yeild cartrage that came with the printer, the new one we got should print even more. Great printer.

 

i have an old HP laserjet 5L at home, which is about the same as the HP laserjet 4L i have in my office. I think the newest verion is the 6L. i get about 3000 pages per $50 toner cartridge. It's not very fast, but it's reliable and cheap to run.

 

yikes!

the HP printers that had the paper standing up (the 4L, the 5L and 6L, IIRC) was involved with a class action suit since about a year later, the rollers would wear out and JAM more than smuckers.

pieces of crap. and we had like 10 of those....

 

yeah, the result of the class action suit was that we got a part to fix the rollers. i have put 10's of thousands of sheets through my printers since the fix and they're great. but more importantly, they're really really cheap to run.

 

the parts never really fixed the problem. i received like tons of them. no matter what, the problem would just return.

man, was i glad they were quietly phased out...

 

I bought the parts from fixyourownprinter.com or something like that, and never had a problem since with my 5L. It's retired upstairs for now because I got a LaserJet 3150 from ebay. It has faxing & scanning capability, which is nice.