[nemanirc]

We have a small office that needs to be able to send/recieve legal-sized faxes as well as make copies. We have been using components (scanner, printer, built in Mac OS X faxing) but would like one device that handles it all. Any recommendations?

We have looked at the Brother 8420 and HP 7130. Neither have gotten consistently great reviews.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

On the mac side they are ALL terrible.

Better to buy a separate fax machine and save yourself lots of trouble.

[tooki]

Seriously, the all-in-ones do everything: badly.

You are better off buying separate components.

Note also that Mac OS X Panther has faxing, and it can be shared over the network to other Macs running Panther (so just one Mac needs to have a modem and phone line), and incoming faxes are automatically placed in a folder that can easily be put on the network for access by multiple users, or you can have faxes printed automatically (or emailed, or AppleScripted to do whatever you want).

My recommendation:

-HP b/w laser printer or
-Canon color inkjet printer
-whatever fax/copier you want (for copying, sending faxes of hard-copy documents, and if you want all faxes to come in printed form)
-Canon or Epson scanner
-Macs running Panther


tooki

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by tooki:

My recommendation:

-HP b/w laser printer or
-Canon color inkjet printer
-whatever fax/copier you want (for copying, sending faxes of hard-copy documents, and if you want all faxes to come in printed form)
-Canon or Epson scanner
-Macs running Panther

tooki

bang on.

[CMYKid]

i've been REALLY surprised (especially after reading from the nay-sayers) with the quality of my HP Officejet 7110.

[Severed Hand of Skywalker]

Originally posted by CMYKid:
i've been REALLY surprised (especially after reading from the nay-sayers) with the quality of my HP Officejet 7110.

Do ALL the functions work in 10.3?

[asmujica]

My 6110 is just beginning to come alive. All the mayor functions are there, albeit a bit sketchy.

Supposedly, the upgraded driver and software is going to come out next month. (as per HP's website)

[MikeD]

Would you guys say that even though this thread has been pretty old, that the stance that multifunctions are still pretty bad? I see that HP has a bunch of multifunction printers out there that are mac compatible but wasn't sure if the case still stands even in the 4th quarter of 04.

Mike

[nemanirc]

We ended up buying the Brother 8420. It copies, faxes, and prints very well. Scanning is handled by a TWAIN driver, so that works fine, too. We have been very happy, especially since we don't need color printing.

[Chulo]

A friend of mine purchased an Epson Cx6400. It looks good and it appears most of the functions work acceptably well. Since he uses Windoze, I'm not sure how well it would function on a Mac although I saw the instruction manual say it was PC and Mac compatible.
I do agree with everyone that separate components usually work better but you might want to give the Epson a look if you're really adamant about having an all-in-one device.

[tooki]

On the Mac, it's nothing like on Windows. None of the printer companies know how to make all-in-one drivers for Mac OS., so they come up with horribly cobbled-together, unreliable drivers that break any time Apple updates Mac OS.

Seriously... bad idea.

tooki

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I got this somewhat cheap but very nice HP all in one -- damn thing's FAST with prints/copies.

Not too bad in scans either Dunno what you're saying about drivers because for me the printer/scanning drivers work perfectly fine.