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Anybody have a good recommendation for a color laser printer they like?  I'm not looking to print a lot, so I don't need a super robust machine that can print hundreds of pages a day.  I don't even care about speed.  I just want high quality prints.  In a given month I might print around 25-50 pages in color.  I like the quality of laser printers over inkjet printers and the longevity of toner cartridges over ink cartridges.  My budget is between $500-$1,000.  Thoughts or models you've had success with?

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I have a Brother MFC-9970CDW that I like a lot.  It's an all-in-one fax copier scanner printer.  I paid about $600 for it three years ago.  It's fast with good quality prints.  Brother doesn't screw me over with outrageous toner costs either unlike HP and others.  I use the scanner on it a lot to scan in records.  It has a decent capacity document feeder and auto duplexes scanning and printing if you set it too.  It has wired and wireless network connectivity.  Print quality is dependent on what paper you use if you are printing lots of graphics or photos.  The expensive photo paper or glossy stock look much better than plain paper.

I used to own an HP laser MFP.  It was a horrendously slow power hungry piece of shit that the full set of toner cartridges cost about $700 for.  It ate toner like a fat kid eats cake too.  HP has been shit since Carly Fiorina ran that company into the ground.

Brother has cheaper models but the feature list on them gets kinda weird with some very nice to have features being deleted which is annoying as hell.  My boss has one and it's been a while since I've used it and I don't remember what the issues where except that I worked on it for a while only to find out it just wouldn't do it.

If you want a non inkjet printer that make amazing looking quality prints on any kind of paper look at one of the Xerox Phaser solid ink printers.  They use what looks like blocks of crayon wax as ink stock.  the prints from these things look like glossy magazine pages.  I'll go ahead and tell you the downsides of them though.  They take about 10-20 minutes to warm up for the first print if you turn it off or unplugged when not in use.  It has to melt the wax.  Once the warm up is complete it prints extremely fast.  Conversely, you have to wait 30 minutes after you unplug it before you can move thing otherwise the ink wax will geet all ove rthe inside of the printer and tear it up.  If you want one make damn sure you buy the extended warranty plan DIRECTLY from Xerox for as long as you can.  The imaging drum on these things has about a two year lifespan in my experience and it's stupid expensive.  I've had customers that bought them through Staples and get third party warranties on them through Assurant.  They had three go down within a month of each other and Assurant kept jerking them around until the extended warranty expired and then told my customer to bad.  They got a lawyer involved and the printers got fixed PDQ and then some.