Posted by Claudine Osborne on 1/28/12 8:17pm Msg #410211
Dual tray printer!
I am finally breaking down and looking for a dual tray printer..I have no idea what to look for! My IT man has done all those types of purchases for me, now I want to do it myself! I am no techie thats for sure but I am married to one..lol
Can you tell me which printer you currently use?
Any hints on what I should look for? What do you think of a refurbished one and if so do you have a favorite place to shop for one?
Thank You in advance!
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Reply by Buddy Young on 1/28/12 8:21pm Msg #410212
I have a Brother HJ-5370DW and I love it. I think it will pay for itself in time as it seperates the letter from legal size documents.
Before I had a single tray printer and was printing everything on legal, and as we know legal paper is a lot more expensive than letter paper. The loan packages I've been printing out lately have about 90% letter and 10% legal.
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Reply by Linda Juenger on 1/28/12 9:38pm Msg #410214
Buddy, how often do you have to replace the drum? n/m
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Reply by Buddy Young on 1/29/12 12:31am Msg #410220
Re: Buddy, how often do you have to replace the drum?
I don't know, I just bought it for myself for christmas.
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Reply by sandi_CA on 1/29/12 1:33am Msg #410223
Re: Buddy, how often do you have to replace the drum?
I've had this printer for a full year, now. I love it! I buy toner from after-market outlets at Amazon.com. Work great! I've used this printer continuously like a work-horse for the full year and have just changed drum. I bought that from Amazon, also. It wasn't much more expensive than the toner! This is a fantastic printer!!
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Reply by Glenn Strickler on 1/30/12 11:57am Msg #410274
Linda
I have dual Brother 5150s since 2005. Kind of dated now. Each one probably has in excess of 500,000 pages on them. I have replaced the drum once in each one of them. I did not pay attention to the recommended replacement interval, I waited until the print quality degraded. I also used an aftermarket drum.
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Reply by Buddy Young on 1/29/12 12:12pm Msg #410234
I bought mine at amazon and it came with the second tray. $247
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Reply by JENNY/TX on 1/28/12 8:30pm Msg #410213
Like Buddy, I have 2 Brother 5370's with dual trays. I never (crossing my fingers here) have problems with them. One of the best features is that the 5370 is wireless.
Jenny
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Reply by Crystal Halliwell on 1/29/12 1:44am Msg #410224
Neither I nor a tech savvy neighbor of mine could figure out how the heck to make the wireless function. was it easy for you?
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Reply by JENNY/TX on 1/29/12 11:51am Msg #410233
Sadly setting up the wireless was a pain. If you have an cable it is easier, but I don't so I have to just play with the instructions until I get it done. Write every step down that you take so you will have it next time (i.e. computer looses its mind and blows all settings). I don't know who Brother wrote the instructions for, but they seem like jibberish. Also, I have had really good experiences with the Brother support folks. I can't give you step by step instructions because I get really confused every time I do this setup. I can say that after you get the wireless working its great.
Good Luck. Jenny
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Reply by ToniK on 1/28/12 10:44pm Msg #410216
I just bought my Brother HL 5370DWT off amazon earlier this week. Using Brother HL 2240/2270DW as back ups.
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Reply by Joan_OH on 1/28/12 11:15pm Msg #410218
Own an HP 4200 & HP 4300. Bought them both off Ebay with under 50K pages printed for very cheap. Had an HP 4200 since 2003 that died after 8 years and 700K pages printed. It's sitting in a corner. It was cheaper to just buy a gently used one off ebay then find out what was wrong with it. In those 700K pages, I had less than 2 dozen misfeeds. Aftermarket toner is cheap. I get mine from Amazon.
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Reply by JanetK_CA on 1/29/12 3:55am Msg #410225
I took an approach similar to Joan
I looked at the duty cycle listed under "specs" for various printers in the price range I was interested in and wasn't impressed. I ended up buying a slightly used HP 2430 dtn, which is a workhorse. When you think about it, it's not at all unreasonable for us to be printing more than 1,000 pages a day and most affordable printers aren't designed to handle that much volume.
I bought it (also on eBay - and paid a small fraction of the originally listed price) back when lots of loan offices and title co's were shutting their doors, so there were lots of them on the market. It's probably old technology these days and I have no idea if printer drivers are still available, but it may be worth checking. I also buy aftermarket toner.
Speaking of toner, I took a chance and bought my last cartridges from Monoprice.com. Naturally, toner ran out right during EOM on the first one I used. I did get a modestly respectable amount of pages from that cartridge, but I never got the usual warning that the toner was running low, so I ended up having to throw out and reprint almost an entire doc package. I guess it's back to LD Products for me.
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Reply by Joan_OH on 1/29/12 7:38am Msg #410226
Re: I took an approach similar to Joan
http://www.ebay.com/itm/HP-LaserJet-4200N-4200-Laser-Printer-LOW-PAGES-Toner-Network-Warranty-/390384904535?pt=COMP_Printers&hash=item5ae4c0e957#ht_4684wt_800
I've had good luck with this guy. You can always call him to get a price on the extra tray and to check on the page count of the 7 of these he has. He also has a bunch of 4250's and 4350's (screaming fast printers). I always check the cost of aftermarket toner before I buy a printer and I'm not sure what they run for 4250 & 4350. I know 4200 and 4300 can be gotten for about $25 & $50, but the page counts are 12K and 18K.
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Reply by granmapickle on 1/29/12 8:49am Msg #410227
re: dual tray printer
I have a Brother HL5250DN which I have had for at least 5 years and I have it set up like a dual tray printer but without the cost of a dual tray printer. I just set the manual feel for all letter size pages and the default tray for legal size. If you set the print settings for choose by paper size the printer figures it out itself. Maybe this is the cheap way to do it but it works great for me.....
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Reply by Frenchie/TN on 1/29/12 11:00am Msg #410229
Re: re: dual tray printer
This is also a very good place for electronics: http://www.newegg.com/ I have a Brother that I bought at Staples several years ago, with rebates and coupons and I bought the tray used on ebay.
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Reply by Ali/IL on 1/29/12 1:11pm Msg #410239
Re: re: dual tray printer
I have a Brother 5370dw, I like it very much and only paid $246 for it. I wish I had bought it sooner. I have had it for a year now with no problems.
Have not set it up for wireless yet that will be my next step.
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Reply by jba/fl on 1/29/12 9:46pm Msg #410258
Re: re: dual tray printer
That's using the old noggin for more than wearing a hat - good thinking granmapickle!
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Reply by Craig Newman on 1/29/12 2:01pm Msg #410246
i have bought 3 refurbished on ebay with no issues .. get an hp 4200 or 4300 you will probably pay around $200
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Reply by Claudine Osborne on 1/29/12 9:02pm Msg #410257
Thank you so much everyone! Great feedback..I will be checking on these suggestions this week! You guys are awesome!
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Reply by droman_IL on 2/2/12 2:12am Msg #410601
Just make sure if you buy an older model that there is a print driver for windows 7 or vista(for newer computers.) I have a dual HP 1320TN that I bought off ebay for $75 over a year ago and its a beast! But its not compatible with my new windows 7 laptop and my 2005 HP desktop is on its last leg, so 'll probably have to buy another printer
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