Printer

**stealthee** · 05-19-2015, 05:25 PM

Welp, I said screw it. I was in town at Shop N Save and walked past the gift cards. I thought about picking one up for my dad for Father's Day when the Amazon gift card caught my eye. I started doing the math in my head and figured I may as well do it. I bought a gift card for my dad, then I got the Amazon card for my purchase so I could take advantage of the fuel perks since I was spending the money anyway. My next stop was the gas station anyway.

Between the two gift cards and my groceries I added an additional 40 cents off a gallon.

After I entered the $125 gift card info I had a balance of $2.19. Printer should be here later this week or early next week.

I know I am probably going to stress about spending money for a few days, but in the end I will be happier that I did.

**stealthee** · 05-19-2015, 05:28 PM

Originally Posted by NickS VR4

I don't have much to add, but my parents had an Oki Color Laser printer, and to replace all of the toner cartridges would cost more than the printer (with cartridges). So unless you want a disposable laser printer, stay away from Oki.

Also, it appears that newer Brother printers have "Google Cloud Print" which is amazing for an all in one device. Allows to to scan directly to your Google Drive account, print from anywhere you are online, and no printer set up on any devices (printing from the Chrome Browser)

LOL Nick you must have posted as I was typing.

Oki wasn't even a consideration. Brother was at the top of the list as were a few others, but for the price point Brother kept seeming to come out on top.

I did notice the features with Cloud Print, but I don't have Google drive, nor do I even know what it is. LOL

Once I am set up with it I will play around with the wireless printing options to see what works best.

**stealthee** · 05-27-2015, 06:16 PM

Got the printer today. Setup was basically painless... for the most part.

As a printer it works flawlessly. I'm having issues with the program Control Center 4. It is supposed to be what you use for the scan function. FOr some reason the program not only crashes when the computer starts up, but crashes when I try to scan from the printer. It also crashes when I click scan from the Brother Utilities program.

I was able to change scan properties and scan using Microsoft Scanner and Camera Wizard, but it would be nice to be able to take full advantage of the scan options.

I went through several troubleshooting efforts and still have the same issue. I ran program repair. I uninstalled, turned off all anti-virus programs, and reinstalled and I'm still not having any luck.

If any of you guys have any advice I'd appreciate it.

Computer is running XP if that helps.

**KeithMac** · 05-28-2015, 03:14 AM

Might be an xp issue, we run the same on windows 7 with no problems?.

**stealthee** · 05-28-2015, 10:26 AM

It might, but everything I have found said it is compatible with XP.

**HilbillyHomeboy** · 05-28-2015, 10:47 AM

When I had CC4 running on xp boxes it would only run on the newer unit. I use 8.1 now and it works flawlessly. My printer is older than yours, but CC4 is the same as it does update from time to time.

Jeremy

**onebadmollafolla** · 05-28-2015, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by HilbillyHomeboy

Another vote for Brother. I've been using them, commercially, for nearly 20 years and I have never had a single problem. You don't need fax; waste of money. No one faxes shit anymore.

I buy my drums and toners from QuikShipToner.com Outstanding service and prices.

Jeremy

I fax things every day.