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Best Wifi Printer for Macbook Air?

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purdue1014

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Oct 9, 2007
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Hey Guys,

Any thoughts? I have an old HP that's biting the dust. I don't really need an all in one, just a good B/W and Color printer. Looking to spend around $100. I have a 2013 MBA. My main use would be for school.

Thanks!

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Altemose said:
I am a big fan of Canon Pixma series printers. They generally have low non-OEM ink costs, AirPlay support, and a variety of prices.
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We have a Canon MG5200 (which Amazon shows as a Pixma series model) and it's works great with my Air...been very happy with it.
 
ItHurtsWhenIP said:
We have a Canon MG5200 (which Amazon shows as a Pixma series model) and it's works great with my Air...been very happy with it.
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That looks like a good one! But it's a bit out of my price range.

What do you guys think of this one? My one concern is...is there a paper try? I.e., I wouldn't want to manually feed the printer paper everytime I want to print something.


http://www.amazon.com/Canon-MX922-W...&qid=1389224327&sr=8-1&keywords=mx922+printer

Thanks guys!
 
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I was a huge cannon fan but as the last 3 of my cannon's died leaving me with excess ink I couldn't use I made the switch to laser printers in our house...I've got a very cheap HP 1020 that I got on a clearance bundle with 3 toners (when they run out I won't buy any more of them because the resolution is a little too low for my taste), a brother 7840w AIO (B&W) and a brother 4570CDW (color) = they are all great units and I'll be keeping the brother units running as long as I can.

If your super set on just an ink printer, I'd look at something from HP that uses the H02 ink series, you can get the ink affordable and HP hasn't changed the ink cartridges in many years (I believe its been more than 10 at this point) so that should give you some stability in terms of HP keeping the series of ink cartridges going longer.

Good luck with your decision!
 
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I'm very fond of the Samsung mono laser printers. I've got the USB based version, but for instance the Samsung ML-2165W is equipped with WiFi. They're nicely supported on OS X, too.
 
Found an HP laserjet B&W for $100 at Best Buy. Ended up getting a HP Color laserjet for $200.
 
J&JPolangin said:
I was a huge cannon fan but as the last 3 of my cannon's died leaving me with excess ink I couldn't use I made the switch to laser printers in our house...I've got a very cheap HP 1020 that I got on a clearance bundle with 3 toners (when they run out I won't buy any more of them because the resolution is a little too low for my taste), a brother 7840w AIO (B&W) and a brother 4570CDW (color) = they are all great units and I'll be keeping the brother units running as long as I can.

If your super set on just an ink printer, I'd look at something from HP that uses the H02 ink series, you can get the ink affordable and HP hasn't changed the ink cartridges in many years (I believe its been more than 10 at this point) so that should give you some stability in terms of HP keeping the series of ink cartridges going longer.

Good luck with your decision!
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One nice thing I forgot to mention about Brother laser printers is that most if not all have separate drum units in them so you are only paying toner cartridge cost vise toner/drum units like on most HP printers = lower per page printing costs and the drums last longer!

Something to check out of you have a heavy printing volume, just a thought.
 
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