Brother HL 4570CDW Wireless Colour Laser Printer (Duplex) Ausmedia $399 - OW $600

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  jv on 07/08/2014 - 12:40

  Weight: 21 Kg

  That's heavy for a Brother…

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    goatus on 07/08/2014 - 12:43

    +2

    How old is your brother?

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    rodericb on 07/08/2014 - 13:04

    +3

    He ain't heavy!

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    ronnknee on 07/08/2014 - 15:49

    That's pretty standard for a higher end network printer.

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  Jero235 on 07/08/2014 - 12:54

  Despite their price BEATING policy (which means that they won't price match, but rather beat the price by a further 5%), OW often give you hassles for it. Give OW a call on 1300 633 423 and tell them about it. In my case, they immediately called the manager of the store to sort it out.
  Even if you aren't going to buy from them, I would call them to let them know what happened.

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    jv on 07/08/2014 - 13:26

    OW often give you hassles

    I've only had an issue once, and the manager ended up giving me the product free to apologise for the staff member not honoring the policy… 'Often' is an exaggeration….

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      Jero235 on 07/08/2014 - 14:23

      I guess every store will be different. The 2 stores that I went to sent me away saying that they would not price beat. The items (over the space of 2 years) were 2 laptops, iTunes cards and 2 printers. I've never had an easy experience asking for the price beating discount

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    ronnknee on 07/08/2014 - 15:24

    It really depends on a set of criteria:
    - Is the competitor located in Australia?
    - Is the product Australian stock (not grey import)?
    - Is the product identical (matching UAC/EAN)?
    - Is the product's price unconditional?
    - Is the product in stock with the competitor?
    - Can the item be picked up from their store? If not, shipping is added on top.

    If you can answer "yes" to all those questions, then the product is eligible for price beat and there will be no hassle.

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  Click_It on 07/08/2014 - 14:06

  I have the HL-4150CDN which is essentially the same, without wireless and apparently slower.

  Good printers, I've used mine to print >100 manuals (70-110 pages each). While they say mine is slower I found it no problem printing 1000's of pages. About 6:50min to print 100 page duplex manual mostly colour if anyone cares.

  I took the gamble and use eBay high yield cartridges, sometimes they gunk up the drums a bit but a quick clean/service every so often takes care of it for another few 1000 pages.

  Highly recommended. Or if you don't care about wireless like me, the 4150CDN sells for under $270, I doubt you'd notice much speed difference, mine has never felt slow.
  http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?price-min=240&q=h…

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    blackwind on 07/08/2014 - 14:11

    What about photo printing?
    Decent quality?

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      Click_It on 07/08/2014 - 14:18

      I have never tasked it with actual photos so I'm not quite sure but it prints lots of software screenshots quite nicely. It does have a flaw or two that you should be aware of though (and I would assume the 4570CDW shares this)

      1. Blues print really dark, excessively so. I have pre-saved settings, basically up the brightness, reduce the blue, reduce the saturation and eventually it looks the way you'd expect it to be.

      2. It likes to claim the cartridges are empty before they truly are. There is a reset trick (youtube videos) to force it to continue using them. Happened with the genuines and my generics.

      I'd guess photos wouldn't be a strength of this printer (either model), but check reviews as always.

      It's strengths, generic toner friendly which means cost-per-page is hard to beat. I couldn't find any cheaper options when I got mine unless I spent >$1000 on a printer.

      EDIT: Just checked, I paid $335 in early 2013 so $270 is pretty darn good.

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      ronnknee on 07/08/2014 - 15:40

      Firstly, you shouldn't be printing your own photos. It's too costly. Use a photo service instead.

      Photo quality would always be better with inkjet than laser. Otherwise, text looks much sharper with laser than inkjet.

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        Click_It on 07/08/2014 - 15:55

        Yeah I have a Dell Photo printer I got ages back as a pricing error ($5) which I use for my rare photo prints. Generally I use the vast online services but I'm sure that inkjet would put most lasers to shame.

        One office I used to work at had a $60,000 laser the size of 2 chest freezers which did pretty impressive photos! I used to sneak prints through it when nobody was around. Mostly manual covers etc, those 100% toner saturation jobs I didn't want to subject my own printer to :)