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Network printer recommendations?

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My Canon Pixmar MX920 has been nothing but a pain in the ass. It's connectivity is lousy, the document feeder doesn't, and the scanner is really flaky. It took me an hour last evening to get 8 pages scanned in.

Does anyone have recommendations for a printer/scanner that is reliable and will connect painlessly to my home WiFi.
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I bought a Brother multi-function printer recently. Very easy setup, even works well with my iPad over my wireless network. It has a document feeder, so scanning multi-page documents is easy.

I don't remember the model number, but it was the cheapest one they had at Best Buy.

I was skeptical because of the low cost (~$100) but I've been happy so far.

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When you've got the new printer working and are satisfied with it, take the old one to Eloy and ask for a garbage dump load. Then watch it smash into planet earth. Or, just take a sledgehammer to it. :D

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My Brother 7820N seems to work well. Monochrome laser. It's not a current model, but I think MFC-L2700DW is. That one looks the same but likely has even better connectivity.
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I have a Xerox Phaser 6022 color laser you can get for cheap right now on amazon.com. I've been using it for a couple years now with no problems. Toner is a bit on the pricey side, but the non-xerox brands work great and cost half as much. The printer whinges that it's not xerox brand toner but that doesn't seem to affect printing at all.

It doesn't come with a document scanner as I didn't need one.

Some of the big brand names are just rebranded Okidata laser printers and some of those were actually really nice, so if you need a business laser printer (It kind of sounds like you do,) you could go shopping around for one of those. I was really surprised at how affordable some of those printers were when I went looking. It's definitely worth checking out laser printers and it's definitely worth springing for one that does PostScript if you plan to use Linux at all.
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we have had great luck with all the Brother devices at Skydive City and have owned a bunch of them. Multifunction duplex, network attached machines and simple lasers with mono and duplex capability. Have never given us any issues really until they wear out, and we wear them out.

suppliesguys.com compatible toner for cheap and no issues with that either.

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