I'm shopping for a printer right now. I decided that I'd like to get something I can easily scan to PDF with, preferably with a doc feeder, copy, and print in color. Because we don't print a lot every day we tend to dry out inkject cartridges so I'm thinking laser. I'm also a big fan of auto-duplexing, although this can be majorly cost prohibitive!
Anyone running a color laser multi-function with duplexer? I'm thinking about maybe splurging on a HP Color LaserJet Pro 400 M475DW or M475DN All-in-One. It seems that the difference is $50 gives me wireless with the DW. The problem is that a) we're talking $500-$700 for a printer and b) when the time comes to by new cartridges I'm in for another $400! Guess you get what you pay for though...
Anyone have thoughts or advice about printers? About these models in particular? Other models you like better and why?
I'm starting to talk myself out of the laser because of the $$ but, on the other hand, the included toner (or whatever it's called in laser world) will last a very long time in my house the way we use it. I try only to print when I have to so it will mostly be kids printing schoolwork and pley-related stuff.
I'm a paperless records kind of guy so the ability to auto-feed docs into a scanner that will email pdf's (or better yet, automatically put them in Google Docs) is probably more important to me than the printing.
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