I can't seem to find a good printer that works super well with both Mac and PC. Can you guys make some suggestions? We have one wifi network at home, I'm the lone family member that uses Mac most of the time, other people at home use PCs.
Personally, I'm partial to Brother laser printers. I'll never go back to inkjets.
Probably would've been my last choice. Oh well. Best of luck.Thanks for everyone's inputs. I had tried different models: brother, hp, epson, samsung. None worked well for me, I finally decided to just go with hp, because I was tired of trying new models! For the hp, I can print from the Mac without problems, I can not get Windows to find the printer. Maybe it's our network?!
What would the difference be between my wifi Brother as it is and having to invest in more equipment and links in the chain?Any printer made since 2005.
Seriously though, wifi printers suck, please connect your printer to an Ethernet switch on your network, you will love it!
Interesting. I've never had an issue. However, my devices are wifi, so how would plugging my printer into Ethernet make much difference, as it's still using wifi to send/receive?Wifi always has an opportunity to disconnect and signal loss. Ethernet is essentially Always-on. If wifi works for you, great! My neighbors all have wifi routers and my printer is 2.4ghz only even though I always use 5ghz on macs, ipads, iphones. The 2.4ghz is super unstable, slow, disconnects, due to congestion of the frequency from all the neighbors routers. From what I've experienced Ethernet is always more stable and reliable than wifi.