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My wife got a new PC laptop 1 year ago with an all-in-one printer at home. I could use the printer with my company PC laptop. 6 months ago, I got a MacBook Pro for myself and am loving it. However, my OS Lion is not compatible with the printer, the printer handles only up through Leopard. We would like to get a new all-in-one that can handle both our PC and MacBook through our wireless network at home. It is so hard to decipher looking at features if printers can handle both. They just don't all come out and say "PC & Mac Compatible". Willing to spend $300-$400 roughly on a good one. Toner or inkjet, able to print decent photos. Anyone have any ideas out there? Thanks!
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PC & Mac Compatible All-in-One Printers
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Posted 21 May 2012 - 04:23 PM
personal opine...
I have always enjoyed and had great results with the Canon pixma printers.
and yes, here at the house it's shared between Mac OS Classic, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, Windows XpPro, 7, Ubuntu and Solaris (Linux and Unix).
I have always enjoyed and had great results with the Canon pixma printers.
and yes, here at the house it's shared between Mac OS Classic, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, Windows XpPro, 7, Ubuntu and Solaris (Linux and Unix).
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Posted 02 June 2012 - 08:55 PM
Sounds like my house... Win7, Lion, CentOS... Any particular pixma you would recommend? I also need to ocassionally print from my iPad2....
macnuke, on 21 May 2012 - 04:23 PM, said:
personal opine...
I have always enjoyed and had great results with the Canon pixma printers.
and yes, here at the house it's shared between Mac OS Classic, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, Windows XpPro, 7, Ubuntu and Solaris (Linux and Unix).
I have always enjoyed and had great results with the Canon pixma printers.
and yes, here at the house it's shared between Mac OS Classic, Tiger, Snow Leopard, Lion, Windows XpPro, 7, Ubuntu and Solaris (Linux and Unix).
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 08:17 AM
Do you print lots of text? If so, you can't beat a mono-chrome laser. Brother seems to offer great Mac support for its multi-function lasers. From a PowerMac on OS 10.3 through newer Macs up through Lion, I have never had a problem with my Brother 7820n network multi-function. Brother's only Mac shortcoming is that incoming faxes must be printed out as they will directly transfer only to a Windows PC.
You would then need a second printer, ink jet, for photos and the very occasional time you really need color or decent grayscale. Two printers is actually cost effective as long as your inkjet printer doesn't clog if left idle for several weeks. I have had 3 clog-free Canon inkjets. Note Epson inkjets are notorious for clogging with intermittent use. I believe HP is also quite clog resistant but many have complained of a spotty record for Mac support--though perhaps this isn't a problem for a straight printer.
You would then need a second printer, ink jet, for photos and the very occasional time you really need color or decent grayscale. Two printers is actually cost effective as long as your inkjet printer doesn't clog if left idle for several weeks. I have had 3 clog-free Canon inkjets. Note Epson inkjets are notorious for clogging with intermittent use. I believe HP is also quite clog resistant but many have complained of a spotty record for Mac support--though perhaps this isn't a problem for a straight printer.
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 08:46 AM
I print text almost exclusively... never print photos, at least not yet, and for color, I usually only have to print color stuff at work... so I should give a brother a chance....
Martian, on 03 June 2012 - 08:17 AM, said:
Do you print lots of text? If so, you can't beat a mono-chrome laser. Brother seems to offer great Mac support for its multi-function lasers. From a PowerMac on OS 10.3 through newer Macs up through Lion, I have never had a problem with my Brother 7820n network multi-function. Brother's only Mac shortcoming is that incoming faxes must be printed out as they will directly transfer only to a Windows PC.
You would then need a second printer, ink jet, for photos and the very occasional time you really need color or decent grayscale. Two printers is actually cost effective as long as your inkjet printer doesn't clog if left idle for several weeks. I have had 3 clog-free Canon inkjets. Note Epson inkjets are notorious for clogging with intermittent use. I believe HP is also quite clog resistant but many have complained of a spotty record for Mac support--though perhaps this isn't a problem for a straight printer.
You would then need a second printer, ink jet, for photos and the very occasional time you really need color or decent grayscale. Two printers is actually cost effective as long as your inkjet printer doesn't clog if left idle for several weeks. I have had 3 clog-free Canon inkjets. Note Epson inkjets are notorious for clogging with intermittent use. I believe HP is also quite clog resistant but many have complained of a spotty record for Mac support--though perhaps this isn't a problem for a straight printer.
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Posted 03 June 2012 - 09:14 AM
I use the Canon Pixma all in ones.
and with wireless, you should be very happy with everything including your iPad/iPhone.
mine is hardwire... i don't do wireless printing... but my wireless devices print just fine as does any of the other computers that are wired.
and with wireless, you should be very happy with everything including your iPad/iPhone.
mine is hardwire... i don't do wireless printing... but my wireless devices print just fine as does any of the other computers that are wired.
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