MFP laser printer
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I use a brother DCP-L2451DW. Got it at 17k locally five years ago, didn't trust amazon who was selling it at 15k but coming from other states and these days it's closer to 25k.
Maybe check out the variant without a document feeder.
I don't know why document feeder increases the price by 10k. It is nothing fancy.
There are two kinds here, printers where the printing drum is in the toner cartridge like HP and ones where the drum is separate from the cartridge like Brother so the toner cartridge is cheaper.
You don't mention how many pages you need to print per month. Refilling toner can be difficult and generally not recommended unless you know what you're doing which you don't.
My use of a laser printer is sparing when I look at the use stats, made more use of it as a photocopier I made 100x more use of the scanner than the printer
I like the wifi implementation. It wakes up when there is a job, prints out and then goes back to sleep. Wifi has been very reliable so far.
Maybe check out the variant without a document feeder.
I don't know why document feeder increases the price by 10k. It is nothing fancy.
There are two kinds here, printers where the printing drum is in the toner cartridge like HP and ones where the drum is separate from the cartridge like Brother so the toner cartridge is cheaper.
You don't mention how many pages you need to print per month. Refilling toner can be difficult and generally not recommended unless you know what you're doing which you don't.
My use of a laser printer is sparing when I look at the use stats, made more use of it as a photocopier I made 100x more use of the scanner than the printer
I like the wifi implementation. It wakes up when there is a job, prints out and then goes back to sleep. Wifi has been very reliable so far.
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It is for my sister's clinic. She doesn't trust OLX. So it is not an option
She is bit restless and pressing me to buy so I bought hp 136w ..
what does the nw refers to. 136 also had an nw version. What network support means ?
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You could also go for the ink tank monochrome printers WiFi printers from Canon and Epson that are around the 10k mark (haven't looked up the exact models recently). The speed would be lesser but ease of refilling makes it self-service, as opposed to refilling toners which takes some precaution and eventual toner replacement.
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it has an ethernet port and wifi. If there is no 'n' then no ethernet port hence cheaper. No 'w' means no wifi and is cheapest but ties you to locating the printer near the router and using a wire.
It's good to have an ethernet port for an office.
Similar price but HP toner cartridge will cost more
The HP has a 128MB buffer so it will handle more jobs compared to 64MB on the brother
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They would not need that many jobs at a time in a clinic. I also wanted to factor the cost of toners, existence of service centre of brother,pantum in my place before purchasing.. but she never gave me the time to do all that.
It is for her clinic opening. She will blame me if I didn't get it on time. Anyway the printer arrived an hour before. Just using it as I reply to this thread
The brother model has auto duplex printing i guess . The HP 136w doesn't has that. Also hp has direct WiFi printing but brother one doesn't.
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Manual duplex is possible but that's just it manual. Auto is nice to have just in case. This is only good if it's just one page. Any more and a document feeder is necessary.
I don't print too often from mobile because the PC app has more options in terms of print and scan.
I think there is a brother app which you can use
What is the difference between 136w and 136 NW. I checked it was network support. What is meant by that?
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It has an ethernet port. This was a good thing to have earlier because you could wifi enable any printer with a tp-link bridge router. Small little thing that was.
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