My printer (HP LaserJet M276n) has started slightly misaligning black
toner, essentially making it useless as a color printer for anything
that matters.

I’ve tried its cleaning and recalibration functions, and reseating the
toner cartridges, to no effect.

While I’m open to any suggestions for how to diagnose/fix it, the
printer is now about 12 years old, which is a pretty good run; so I’m interested in recommendations for a replacement.

I’m looking for feature parity with my existing printer but also duplex printing. More specifically:
- A4
- colour laser
- auto duplex
- flatbed scanner
- sheetfeed scanner (auto duplex not required)

Connectivity:
- network connectivity is a must
- wired preferred
- wireless acceptable

Platforms compatibility:
- Windows is a must
- Linux is a strong nice-to-have
- macOS is a weak nice-to-have

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fred <not@for.mail> wrote in news:PTnkP.38436$yJT9.13010@fx16.ams4:

A business level machine will give you the opportunity to buy large
and economical compatible carts without too much fuss.

Brother MFC-8690CDW works well here, faultless performance with light
use for just over 5yrs. Excellent resolution & simple self recalibration/registration on cart replacement.

Better value then at £290 with 100quid cashback so £190 net but you
don't seem scared to buy buy good, buy once.

Currently with £380 with £75 cashback or 3yrs warranty (I chose
cashback) so just over £300:

https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-mfc-l8690cdw/139120

Good outfit although I had to warn them over spamming me to purchase
full price cart sets at more than the cost of the printer. Full carts installed on delivery, 4000 sheets IIRC. Plenty of compatibles out
there XL ones do 6500 sheets.

Poss better value (specs not fully checked) net £260 with 100quid CB:

https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-dcp-l8410cdw/139148

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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in news:wwvjzam20z6.fsf@LkoBDZeT.terraraq.uk:

My printer (HP LaserJet M276n) has started slightly misaligning black
toner, essentially making it useless as a color printer for anything
that matters.

I’ve tried its cleaning and recalibration functions, and reseating

the

toner cartridges, to no effect.

While I’m open to any suggestions for how to diagnose/fix it, the
printer is now about 12 years old, which is a pretty good run; so I’m interested in recommendations for a replacement.

I’m looking for feature parity with my existing printer but also

duplex

printing. More specifically:
- A4
- colour laser
- auto duplex
- flatbed scanner
- sheetfeed scanner (auto duplex not required)

Connectivity:
- network connectivity is a must
- wired preferred
- wireless acceptable

Platforms compatibility:
- Windows is a must
- Linux is a strong nice-to-have
- macOS is a weak nice-to-have

A business level machine will give you the opportunity to buy large and economical compatible carts without too much fuss.

Brother MFC-8690CDW works well here, faultless performance with light use
for just over 5yrs. Excellent resolution & simple self recalibration/registration on cart replacement.

Better value then at £290 with 100quid cashback so £190 net but you don't
seem scared to buy buy good, buy once.

Currently with £380 with £75 cashback or 3yrs warranty (I chose cashback)
so just over £300:

https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-mfc-l8690cdw/139120

Good outfit although I had to warn them over spamming me to purchase full
price cart sets at more than the cost of the printer. Full carts
installed on delivery, 4000 sheets IIRC. Plenty of compatibles out there
XL ones do 6500 sheets.

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fred <not@for.mail> wrote:

fred <not@for.mail> wrote in news:PTnkP.38436$yJT9.13010@fx16.ams4:

A business level machine will give you the opportunity to buy large
and economical compatible carts without too much fuss.

Brother MFC-8690CDW works well here, faultless performance with light
use for just over 5yrs. Excellent resolution & simple self recalibration/registration on cart replacement.

Better value then at £290 with 100quid cashback so £190 net but you
don't seem scared to buy buy good, buy once.

Currently with £380 with £75 cashback or 3yrs warranty (I chose
cashback) so just over £300:

https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-mfc-l8690cdw/139120

Good outfit although I had to warn them over spamming me to purchase
full price cart sets at more than the cost of the printer. Full carts installed on delivery, 4000 sheets IIRC. Plenty of compatibles out
there XL ones do 6500 sheets.

Poss better value (specs not fully checked) net £260 with 100quid CB:

https://www.printerland.co.uk/product/brother-dcp-l8410cdw/139148

Looks like they both take the TN421/TN423 cartridges which have no DRM and
dirt cheap aftermarket ones are available.

I think there are some differences in the scanning side, maybe one is
flatbed and the other duplex sheet-fed, or something?

Theo

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Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:

My printer (HP LaserJet M276n) has started slightly misaligning black
toner, essentially making it useless as a color printer for anything
that matters.

I’ve tried its cleaning and recalibration functions, and reseating the toner cartridges, to no effect.

While I’m open to any suggestions for how to diagnose/fix it, the
printer is now about 12 years old, which is a pretty good run; so I’m interested in recommendations for a replacement.

I’m looking for feature parity with my existing printer but also duplex printing. More specifically:
- A4
- colour laser
- auto duplex
- flatbed scanner
- sheetfeed scanner (auto duplex not required)

Connectivity:
- network connectivity is a must
- wired preferred
- wireless acceptable

Platforms compatibility:
- Windows is a must
- Linux is a strong nice-to-have
- macOS is a weak nice-to-have

Go Brother, much less toner DRM shenanigans which means cheaper toner. I
have an HL-L8260CDW which just uses plastic 'reset wheels' and that means I
can buy aftermarket toner at £30 for a full set. The newer Brothers are chipped and slightly more DRM-y, but still well behind the competition.

A model which supports BRScript3 means you can print from anything that supports Postscript without needing drivers. It'll do
autodetection/AirPrint thing but I just set up clients to print via Jetdirect/AppSocket because it's the simplest and most robust network
protocol - just fire Postscript at port 9100 and it'll print it. The
slightly cheaper models don't have PS but do support PCL, which is equally
easy - it's only the cheapest ones which are Winprinters and need special drivers (there may be proprietary CUPS drivers for Win/Linux/Mac, but
they're still a PITA).

No experience of scanning, although there are printers similar to the 8260
but with scanning. However I've just had a hateful Epson inkjet refuse to
scan because it's out of magenta ink, so be wary of that.

Theo

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