Anyone experienced with Laser Printers?

[Princess Luna]

Hello there!

 

My office is in need for a laser printer since we're printing documents pretty much 24/7 and our current printer is too slow becoming a bottleneck on the workflow.

 

I cannot however break the bank, it has to be one of the cheaper ones; Brazil also lacks a variety of options... researching it leads me to the following units:

 

Brother HL-1202 - The cheapest likely not due to lack of Wi-Fi capabilities

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HP M15W - Second cheapest, has Wi-Fi functionality

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HP M102W - Third cheapest, has Wi-Fi functionality

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Brother 1602 Laser - The most expensive one, no mentions about it having Wi-Fi, I think it doesn't so probably what I'm after.

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I would love to hear what any one has to say here, if you know some other good value unit you can mention it for me to look for but have in mind the Brazilian market is fairly constrained... I'm

going to wards the HP M102W because it looks to be of solid built and has Wi-Fi functionality.
 

[Meganter]

1 minute ago, Princess Luna said:

 

I know HP makes good printers (or used to), I've never heard of Brother before though.

 

We use Canon at work and it's really fast with good quality  

[FlappyBoobs]

It's 2019 what are you doing printing that much?

 

Can you tell us what you are printing? and how many pages per day/week/month? You may be better off getting a service contract where they lease you the printer and maintain it than buying a home office type printer.

 

If you are doing the same print again and again, or could cope with a 24 hour turn around then you will likely find that a printing company will cost you less to use than doing it yourself.

[minibois]

HP lasers printers have been nothing but a bad experience for me at work.

When they print, they print. When they don't, you have to restart it to get it working at all.. That's with a model similar to M15W and with an older version multifunctional.

I have very little experience with Brother's offerings though; but from what I tried it just works, which is pretty good (works for printing, don't have experience with scanning and I assume copying will work fine).

 

If at all possible to get, I would recommend Lexmark. I have a Lexmark C2425DW at home, which is a color unit (with no scanning/copying functions). But it doesn't look like they have similarly priced options..

 

You should definitely consider the amount you will print and thus toner costs. The most expensive printer could easily become the cheapest if you print enough to make larger toners worth it.

Just check price per page on their toners, factor in how much you will print in a month/year and add the price of the printer onto the supply cost.

That will usually give a much more accurate cost figure to you.

[Guest]

Brother HL-L2300D + Cheap $6 toners are what we user for beater laser printers. $80 on sale usually and then you don't feel bad when they break in 3 years. Not sure what pricing is like where you are though.

 

[20_below]

I would stay far away from HP printers, I've had nothing but major headaches from using them over the years. Brother on the other hand are great laser printers. I would definitely recommend getting that. With Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming up you can usually get great deals on them; I'm sure Amazon will have tons of their models on sale for a good price.