Best Printer

[cpabsd]

What is your favorite printer for all these tax returns we are printing?  My printer seems to be on the verge of going.  I need network and duplex capabilities.  

[Margaret CPA in OH]

I've been very happy with my Bother HL-L2325DW.

[BTS]

Second on Brother printers.  Cheap and you can buy non Brother toner cartridge's and drums on the cheap.   We use LD Products for replacement toner and drums.  

[Abby Normal]

I love my Brother color laser HL-L3280CDW. It has a great envelope bypass and it was very reasonably priced, but it's monthly duty cycle is only 3,000, so it might not be good enough for printing a lot of pages.

[BTS]

We have two 6200dw's and both are over 100,000 on page counts.  Our original 1800dw (very old model) has over 300,000 pages on it.  Still works great !!  But LD Products is a great place to buy toner and drums.  So much cheaper than OEM stuff.  We used Ricoh units before Brother and toner was not cheap for those. And aftermarket toner was hard to find.

[mcbreck]

What I like about Brother is that you can buy refilled cartridges on Amazon for a very cheap amount. Some of the makers have utilized tech to try and prevent that. It also will hit 100k pages by the end of next week. I'm thinking about moving my color printer to the side and using a mono / black only printer for general usage when I don't need color. I'd like to limp this color print along until retirement.

[GLJEANNE]

Ditto on Brother, I have the MFC-L5850DW and it's been a good workhorse.  The high-yield toner cartridges are good.

 

[artp]

I have brother MFC-L2750DW and am well pleased for over 6 years.  As others have commented replacement toner and drum units are easily and cheaply available thru LD products and are very reliable.

[Hahn1040]

My first printer when I was on my own in 1998, was a Brothers HL1040.  When i saw the model number, I knew that was the one.

I am now up to an HL6200.  I've had this one about 5 years.  I always buy Brother.  and use LD toner

[BulldogTom]

I like my Canon ImageClass D1620, but it may not be available anymore.   Copy feeder, scan, 500 page paper drawer.   I don't do color printing, so I like a b/w only printer.  It was about $300 when I got it 3-4 years ago.   I get aftermarket toner cartridges on Amazon fairly cheap.   

Tom
Longview, TX

[Catherine]

I miss my Brother printer. When it died I replaced it with an HP, which works well enough but can be very annoying as well. Checking in with the mothership to make sure I'm using "real" HP cartridges, deciding to stop and recalibrate halfway through a print job, waiting up to a minute before printing in case I decide to override which paper feed to use (when only one has any paper in it). They are "improving the user experience" to the point of wanting to take a sledgehammer to the thing on occasion. But the print quality - once it deigns to start - is terrific, as is the speed, and the ease of duplex printing.

[ILLMAS]

If I may recommend try going digital, I say 95% of my clients get digital copies and the other 5% get a print out.  Someone here recommend Verifyle secure portal and I've been happy with it.

[Margaret CPA in OH]

Oh, I use Verifyle and love it as do many of my clients.  But a surprising number of them still want a printed client copy of their returns.  When I began my own practice I used and still do use twin pocket folders with the year label on the outside, my card inside and copies on the right with acknowledgements and my invoice on the left.  So many long time folks still want those folders because that's how they keep their records.  Of course, most of my clients are 'of a certain age' and the younger ones (most, but not all) just retain digital copies.  One  year I tried gray folders.  Didn't go over well.  My business cards and stationary are light gray and wine.

My office is about 99% digital.  I never keep paper copies of client data either downloading the pdf copies from Verifyle and/or scanning provided records with my trusty ScanSnap 1500!

[schirallicpa]

I've been doing this for 30 years.  I've had 2 printers - both brothers.  They are the best.