Brother MFC-L2750DW Mono Laser All-in-One Printer - $251.75 after Officeworks Price beat guarantee. Originally Priced at $298 at Officeworks.
The below link listed $265 pickup from NSW or QLD. Just got mine from a local Officework with best price guarantee less 5% of the lower price listed.
https://www.umart.com.au/Brother-MFC-L2750DW-Laser-Multifunc…
Edit: Small price rise to $269.
Probably not in Australia. But more common in Japan where all the boomers still insist on using faxes for day-to-day admin and business.
Actually, a lot of credit card processing and bank related stuff has to be faxed. I know, dark ages stuff.
Is it because for security? it's much harder to forge / spoof a fax
@scrimshaw: I always thought it had something to do with facsimiles being legally recognised and the perception that digital communication is more prone to unauthorised tampering.
Thankfully, even industries reluctant or having a large inertia against change is finally shifting away as well.
@tebbybabes: Yep, perceived security. It's actually pretty easy to set up a tap on a normal phone line (open the pit, insert tap, close pit), so it's immensely less secure than an encrypted file.
It's amazing how easy tapping fax lines is, especially these days. A little Arduino/RPi powered box in a pit could run indefinitely, sipping power from the line itself, with a wireless network set up. All you need to do is pull up every few days nearby and download all documents faxed.
Alarm bells were ringing decades ago about this stuff, but the banks persisted with "fax only" doctrines.
Commonly used in the medical industry still unfortunately…
Medical imaging? That is a scary thought.
"Either the cancer's spread, or someone took the phone off hook upstairs"
Only medical reports… usually anyway
someone once tried to fax me an X-ray. Saw nothing due to the qualify
Many of them have switched to fax to email at least. The downside is they're no longer RACGP compliant once they make that move but it really doesn't matter too much.
These Brother units are pretty solid. I have a colour version, and it's been rock solid for 6 years. I only just changed the black toner last year, still waiting on changing the rest.
which model is the colour version you have? Would you also know how much roughly is each of their toners?
I have an MFC-9330CDW. Last time I bought toners was in a box of 4, and they were $100 or so for all 4. I think singles are about $30.
Been using one of these as our main work printer. Has done a great job for at least a couple of years
How often do you need to change the toner?
How many pages do you print?
A busy office with multiple users maybe once a month or even fortnightly, while home usages is more like once a year still depend how much you print.
On average 10 pages per day
@Hellcrusher3304: Assume it black and white it should last around 8-10 months on generic tonners but you may notice fading half way unless it client personal/internal usage is fine for my use case. What great about brother printers you can reset the toner low warning light via buttons or via screen so you technically keep printing until a blank or unusable print.
@[Deactivated]: That's great, thanks for the info!
My current inkject only lasts around 2 months per cartridge… Also sick of ink fading when wet
@[Deactivated]: ^This one +100
I specifically went with a brother laser for exactly this feature. I got sick and tired of the printer telling me the toner was empty and then refuse to print. I mean how mind numbingly stupid is it to not let the user determine if the prints are no longer acceptable!!! Gets my goat all the time.
After I've reset the tone low notification, I gotten more than 200 pages more of print outs before I decide that it's no longer good enough.
Great workhorse printer.
Had one in my warehouse at work for quite a few years.
Prints 30-40pgs everyday. I only use original toners though.
Got one of these a couple of weeks ago. Apart from printing, the scanning to Evernote/Onedrive has been very good/useful (UI is bit clunky but I can get over that).
I highly recommend this printer so cheap compared to anything that has duplex print and scanning functions
What's the shipping cost to Perth?
Important tip with these big box units, keep your box and packaging in case it needs to be serviced. Otherwise, prepare to take it to the repairer directly.
How I wish I read your comment before.
Just recycled the box
I have the older model than this..
Awesome printer. No drivers needed on the Mac, can do AirPrint with iOS devices,
Can do feeder scanning of documents, can do duplex printing no issues.
Can scan to Dropbox or onedrive along with local computers as well
My one complaint for a similar earlier model, the 2740, is related to it's scanning. A few mm will not be scannable from the edges. An extra unscannable millimeter or so is added to that if you use the ADF! I've personally operated roughly 6 scanners of different makes and models over the decades and have only come across this issue now. I have communicated with Brother and have been informed that it is working exactly as intended. According to them, it's not a fault. From the email exchange, I got the impression that it was implied that a higher end model than this scanner would not have this "feature" and I honestly cannot comprehend why it was designed this way.
But I still agree, this is a great home/small office printer with an excellent set of features and reliability coupled with a nice price point.
Curious about a colour equivalent, so sick of ink drying out and having to pay $100 for new cartridges when I only use it once or so per month. Time to switch to laser for me
I got this one and never goin back to inkjet againt. This thing is amazing with cheap consumables with all functions I need.
https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/brother-wi…
Got this in the last deal, some things that I didn't realise:
Overall happy with the purchase, just some points of interest in case it matters to anyone else!
I changed to a separate scanner, and a $15 second-hand HP laser printer with CUPS on a Pi. Prints from windows. I used Brother all-in-ones for a decade but I gave up.
brother printers are dynamite on wifi printing - i have the 2395DW and its so simple and just works. Agree with other comments on these units. Good for the price and aftermarket toner is ~$20 (vs $100 at OW)
Anyone know if there's a store in SA that'll price match this given it's a NSW/VIC store? Would try OW except unfortunately they seem to be out of stock/limited at all the ones anywhere near me.
FWIW found one and price matched the below at OW for ~$260 all told. This place is also worth checking out if you're interested in supporting the little guy and their price isn't bad at all:
http://ecotechprintsolutions.com.au/brother-mfc-l2750dw-mono…
I bought two of these. Rock solid performance, no complaint!
Damn, none in NSW. This model is exactly what I need right now but don’t want to pay $290~
One of the things I’ve enjoyed with our epson inkjet is sending a print to it (or initiating a scan) without going to the printer to wake it up. Does this device behave the same way?
Wow, it is a fax machine. Does anyone still use fax?