On 30 Nov 2014, at 10:39 PM, Jim Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there a brand that is particularly more Mac-friendly and iOS-friendly than > the others? > We need to replace an old printer. In past years, we have used Canon, Epson, > and HP and I know things have changed. Now, I want to look at several brands > for both photo and text work: Canon, HP, Epson, and Brother. I want to avoid > something that is too PC-oriented. > Thanks, > Al Poulin > > I recently decided to cut my paper and ink costs for ordinary black and white > printing. I chose to go with a Samsung Xpress M2830DW laser printer. I bought > it at Staples for less than $100. It works well with all our various Mac > desktops and laptops, as well as with our iOS devices because it’s a native > AirPrint printer. It also has a USB port, thus is hard-wired to my main > desktop iMac. It’s fast, and will accept just about any paper/printable > material you can feed into it. The black text and other images are super > sharp and crisp, unlike whiskery inkjet printers. What’s more, it can be set > to automatically print on both sides of a piece of paper, and it does so > quickly with its built-in duplexer. The OEM toner cartridge will print about > 1200 pages, and I have a 3000-page toner cartridge bought on Amazon for $40 > sitting on the shelf when the time comes. Really nice machine, and it’s also > NFC ready, so that when I get an Apple Watch or an iPhone 6 I can just tap > the device on the printer to print out whatever strikes my fancy.
+1 on all of that. I bought a 2835DW this past summer, because my high-school aged kids were eating me alive on bills for ink cartridges for the Canon MP810. The only real issue was needing a windows pc to be able to do a firmware update. — tom coradeschi [email protected] -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
