# Recommend me a printer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 24, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274 "2009-04-24T22:23:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2009, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274/1 "2009-04-24T22:23:54Z")

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I need a color printer for my office. I have a B & W Laser Jet, but I need a printer that does the following:  
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[li]Color 8.5 X 11[/li][li]Color photo prints[/li][li]Scan and allow me email documents[/li][li]I would really like 2 paper trays 1 for regular paper and 1 for photo paper so I don’t have to keep switching paper[/li][/ul]

So the floor is open for suggestions.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274/2 "2009-04-25T17:58:44Z")

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What? Nobody has any suggestions?

Bumpty, bump bump bump.

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**Author:** ![TheScogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@TheScogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheScogg)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274/3 "2009-04-25T19:15:08Z")

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What type of price range are you looking at? Color printers run from $40 to well over $60,000. I’d recommend a Xerox DocuColor 250, but that’s a little bit on the high end.

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**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\
**Post date:** [April 25, 2009, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274/4 "2009-04-25T21:18:51Z")

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i’m looking at probably an inkjet in say the $150ish range.

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**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2009, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/recommend-me-a-printer/494274/5 "2009-04-26T07:00:16Z")

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Staples has some good looking color laser printers on their website.

Starting at $139.00 - for a refurbished HP.

Aside from that - good to see you and hope everything is going well for you down in ShakyTown 🙂