I work at staples and although this is one of brothers best models, it is not that awesome as far as lasers go. I would definently go with a samsung over this, because of the 2 part toner system in the brother. 2 part toner systems are bad for pocket books, but a little better for the environment. Samsung has a single cartridge for the toner and drum (much like HP but the samsungs are built more sturdy and come with better warranties) and almost all samsung printers have linux support. I bought the ML-2010 and it works like a dream. It only USB, but they have different models with networking. I plugged it in and ubuntu found it, I didnt even have to use the drivers included (yes! actuall linux drivers for more than just red hat on the CD!) I highly recomend that printer for home users, for office, they have a couple color laser models that are also nice. The 2010 goes for about 129, but about every 3 weeks Staples has it on sale for like 50.

On 8/12/06, Timothy Schmidt <timschmidt@gmail.com> wrote:

Ok.  Sorry to keep replying...  just had to satisfy my curiosity.

With a 10,000 page duty cycle, at 20ppm, that's 8 hours, 20 minutes of
solid printing.  Assuming Brother's average figure of 450W when printing
is correct (it's at least in the ballpark), that's 3.75 kWh.  Plus the
other 29 days, 15 hours, 40 minutes @ 5W (3.558 kWh), that's a grand
total of 7.308 kWh / month, or $0.66 @ $0.09 / kWh.  For one 2 hour, 20
minute session of running the kill-a-watt, including some printing, it
calculated a .03 kWh usage.  That works out to about 9.25 kWh over a
month's time.  Same same.  Fudge for the standby time and figure it
costs you a buck a month to run.

My IIISi pulls 41W at standby - no sleep mode, and a steady 800W when
printing (with an occasional 80W blip for 2 or 3 seconds). So...

10,000 pages (not fair - the IIISi can do 50,000) @ 17ppm = 9 hours, 50
minutes @ 700W average = 6.86 kWh + 29.1 kWh (the rest of the month @
41W) = 35.96 kWh * $0.09 / kWh = $3.24 / month

Over a year, that's a savings of about $27.  Nothing amazing, but I'm
not disappointed.  It also helps that, because of the higher resolution
and networking capabilities of the brother machine, I was able to
replace my IIISi _and_ my 6MP.  Assuming all other costs equal (hah, big
assumption), the brother machine should pay for itself after the first
year on electricity savings alone.
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