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Funny, I have a Lexmark Pro 4000 at the office here, and we don't
experience that problem. Of course, it does get used fairly often,
I'd say at least once every 48hrs. I don't know how often we
replace the ink in it... office manager says each set of 4 inks
lasts about a year to a year and a half. Note that the Pro4000 has
a lot of options to fine-tune power savings mode, accessible only
through the web gui.<br>
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The Brother definitely does the same thing, as will every
"office"-quality printer; otherwise, the ink or the printheads dry
out and when you go to use it, it won't print no matter how much ink
you have left.<br>
<br>
I don't print often at home (although I do tend to use large volumes
of ink at a time), and I replace the ink cartridges about once a
year. I don't think you'll find anything new and feature-rich that
will hold on to its ink for more than a year. My parents have a
slightly newer model than I do, and they replace the ink about every
18 to 24 months, so far.<br>
<br>
Some inkjets have a "storage" mode which tries to prevent drying
out, I don't think the Brother does... not sure what would,
nowadays, or even if it's still a thing.<br>
<br>
-Adam<br>
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I see that Brother now has the MFC-J6920DW and -J6925DW
printers. They look pretty good. I'd buy one based on your
comments, but my previous experience with an MFC was the
Lexmark OfficeEdge Pro4000, which while free (I won it)
BLEEDS INK CONSTANTLY. The ink is not cheap, and the unit
seems to do a cleaning cycle of some kind daily while on
standby, which I guess uses a ton of ink.<br>
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This is in contrast with my old Canon iP4500, which apparently
could go for a year or so of disuse and still print fine and
without losing any ink. Do you find your Brother holds on to
its ink fairly well? I don't do a lot of printing, and I don't
want a printer that goes through ink when I'm not using it!<br>
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<div>And what did you pay for it? The newer models are listed as
$300 and $350, but that's probably $US. Not outrageous, but
I'd probably want to shop around for a sale.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Sep 28, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Adam
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Does anyone have big (like tabloid or bigger) scanner
they want to<br>
sell? Even an ancient SCSI or parallel one might be
ok. I just want<br>
*big*.<br>
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Do they even make scanners bigger than legal or
tabloid?<br>
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I have a tabloid-size scanner built into my Brother
MFC-J6910DW (which didn't cost very much).<br>
If you need wider, either use a camera or hack something
up like this <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2013/09/25/scanner-modifications-to-scan-large-documents/"
target="_blank">http://www.mpetroff.net/archives/2013/09/25/scanner-modifications-to-scan-large-documents/</a>.
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To be a bit more specific (and laudatory), my Brother MFC<br>
1) only costs around $300-$350 new (<a
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href="http://www.pricebat.ca/search.php?q=MFC-J6910DW"
target="_blank">http://www.pricebat.ca/search.php?q=MFC-J6910DW</a>)<br>
2) prints/scans/faxes; has all the various slots and ports
and features you could want<br>
3) has both WiFi and Ethernet and USB<br>
4) scans to USB-attached PC, SD/CF/etc slot, NFS(?), FTP,
SMB, SMTP(email) - very handy. (Oh, it also can print from
POP3!)<br>
5) prints AND scans up to 11x17" (tabloid)<br>
6) prints AND scans double-sided (all the way up to 11x17",
including from the ADF!)<br>
7) has a B&W cost per page comparable to most mid-sized
lasers (it's cheaper to run than my HP LJ2200DN even using
remanufactured HP toner cartridges!)<br>
8) has a Color cost per page WELL BELOW most color lasers<br>
9) automatically runs head-cleaning/flushing operations so
the heads don't dry out<br>
10) has XXL-sized ink tanks; I'm only on my second set of
ink tanks after a year, even with item #9 above!<br>
11) two paper trays, both can hold up to 500pp of 11x17"<br>
12) can "snoop" on your phone line and intervene if it
detects an incoming fax<br>
13) has drivers for Linux (not open-source, though)<br>
<br>
Bottom line: although this printer isn't perfect, it's a
darn good deal and after about two years with it, I'm very
impressed with it.<br>
<br>
I wish it had three trays, not two.<br>
I wish it could multitask better (one thing at a time,
mostly).<br>
I wish it had better photo output. (But it's only 4-color,
and it's not Epson or Canon, after all.)<br>
And I wish it either had open source drivers or supported
PCL3 or PS or something standard like that.<br>
<br>
FWIW, I've also been quietly impressed with *every* *single*
Brother laser printer I've ever seen - I know of an HL-6
from ~1990 that's still working (although barely).<br>
<br>
I don't understand why they're the Rodney Dangerfield of the
printer world when everything they make mostly just works.
(One issue: their small/cheap MFPs tend to be unsupported
for newer versions of Windows. Just like every other
manufacturer's small, cheap MFPs.)<br>
<br>
YMMV; mine mostly hasn't.
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-Adam Thompson<br>
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