Ok, well you sold me on the Brother and thanks. I still have good luck
with the older HP 6122 so could keep that for the color stuff and just
get a good laser for the text stuff, fax, scan, printing deal. I have
some choices and will just go up to the office supply place and check
it out.
On Jan 6, 2008, at 6:20 PM, Scott Bresnahan wrote:
Hi,
I buy nothing but Brother these days. I purchased the MFC-5460CN
for my sister and I have the older MFC 8540CN along with a Brother
Laser.
I will say the ink is expensive and I have had some network issues
that were fixed by restarting the MFC, but all in all, the drivers
are why I went with Brother with what was at the time of Mac OS X,
far better Mac support than Epson or HP. Alas, I'd say Brother
right now is the best Mac printer company for my needs. And as you
found out, the scanning to a Mac over the network was the selling
point for me too. I will say the the color photo output of the MFCs
is not as good as a color photo printer, so don't expect top notch
color photos. Business quality graphics is no problem as far as
quality, in my opinion.
If I had to do it all over again, I'd buy a laser MFC and cheap
inkjet. It seems like one can buy a whole new inkjet printer for
less than the replacement ink these days. ANd, I tend to use more
b&w laser output than color inkjet jobs.
Bottomline: I like the Brother MFC 5460CN a lot.
Best,
Scottt
