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Looking for a decent affordable duplex printer
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I require a duplex printer. I don't care if its inkjet or laser, if it was ethernet that'd be amazing, but not too fussed.
Any suggestions for a Mac OS X supported duplex printer under £150 ($300)?
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My Canon pixma IP3000 is a few years old now, was under €100, is inkjet, and does duplex.
I'm sure the current Pixma series has a sub-€100 duplex printer. The networked versions are sure to have it.
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Kyocera FS-1300D does duplex, although I'm sure you could get a used 1020D (which I have) or 1030D for less.
Inkjets usually have horrible duplexers (ok, for occasional use, but that's that), the duplexer of our HP OfficeJet K550 jams after printing 10 pages or so. Plus, there is an offset by a few mm.
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Originally Posted by OreoCookie 
Kyocera FS-1300D does duplex, although I'm sure you could get a used 1020D (which I have) or 1030D for less.
Inkjets usually have horrible duplexers (ok, for occasional use, but that's that), the duplexer of our HP OfficeJet K550 jams after printing 10 pages or so. Plus, there is an offset by a few mm.
You beat me to it with the Kyocera. Excellent printer. Toners are cheap and the printing speed is fast. It's a shame mine is broken.
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My 1020D is about three years old and I've printed over 22,000, I just installed my third cartridge (i. e. they last longer than the specified 7,200 pages). Hasn't let me down yet. My father's FS-1010 gave out after 60 or 70k pages. I bought mine specifically to be able to print duplex.
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The only thing wrong with ours is that the contraption holding the side where the toner locks in, to the side where the drum is doesn't stay together. One of the plastic lugs has broken off. If you can tape it together well enough it works, as does jamming a load of paper into the top of the printer under the lid to make sure it's pushed together.
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Fs-1020D - I should have mentioned that before.
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I also had an iP3000, and now use a Pixma MP970, both of which have duplex.
Canon's got a new model, the MP620, which is duplexing, all-in-one, with ethernet and wireless, for £129 list. The slightly more expensive MP630 adds direct CD printing.
If you want just a printer, the iP4500 (£79 list) and iP4600 (no list price yet, but probably the same) have integrated duplexing (the iP4600 is basically the same print mechanism as the MP630, just without being an all-in-one), but they don't have any kind of networking.
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HP LaserJet P2015DN
Not sure how the price will be on your side of the pond.
brother HL-5250DN is another good option.
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