For delivery to Sydney CBD, delivery was $9.90. I believe free pick-up is available from their warehouse/store in Sydney and Brisbane. Much cheaper than RRP of $763 at HP Online Store. Note that if you are eligible for HP student/corporate pricing, it was available for $451.
| Key Features | |
|---|---|
| Black: | As fast as 9.7 sec |
| Colour: | As fast as 11.3 sec |
| 2 sided printing | Automatic (default) |
| Ethernet | Add this device to your office Ethernet network to share with your workgroup. |
| Wireless | Yes, built-in dual-band Wi-Fi; Authentication via WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPA Enterprise; Encryption via AES or TKIP; WPS; Wi-Fi Direct; Bluetooth Low-Energy |
| Automatic document feeder capacity | Standard, 50 sheets uncurled |
| Digital sending standard features | Scan to email with LDAP email address lookup, Scan to network folder, Scan to USB, Scan to Microsoft SharePoint®, Scan to computer with software, Fax archive to network folder, Fax archive to email, Fax to computer, Enable/disable fax, Quick Sets |
| Display | 4.3" intuitive touchscreen Color Graphic Display (CGD) |
Background
With working remotely, I have found myself in dire need of a solid laser printer and scanner combo (predominantly used for printing/scanning word documents and powerpoint decks). Whilst I was willing to concede on colour, must-haves were the full duplex ADF scanning (i.e. can scan both sides), full duplex printing, good app support, wifi/networking, and ability to scan straight to email or cloud services (eg OneDrive). Given my work involves a lot of documents, I needed the automatic duplexing on both scan and print (rather than the manual take it out and put it back in).
After much research, I finally settled on either the Brother MFC-L2750DW or the Brother MFC-L3770CDW (for colour)… only to find neither of these were readily available or were at inflated prices vs previous deals on OzBargain.
Found the HP Color Laserjet Pro M479fdw as a suitable option (don't get confused with the other M479's which confusingly come in M479dw (simplex scanning) or M479fnw (simplex printing)) - refer to HP's own guidance here. It's also really difficult to find reviews of printers which aren't overglorified promotions by a seller, or just someone summarising a spec sheet… but this guy's review on Youtube which showed off the UI and features helped convince me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs_V7eN7Fmg
Whilst I'm mindful the Officeworks price beat is potentially an option since they stock it and it's currently listed at $767 with some stock in Australia, I spent significant time discussing options with the staff member at MediaForm via chat on potential alternatives and offering genuine insight into pricing/service/etc to be worth my business. For those who are interested, they also suggested the Lexmark CX431ADW for $480 as an alternative which met my needs - but I didn't have a lot of confidence in the mobile app (based on what limited information I could find) and the consumables whilst slightly cheaper, had much lower yields than the HP such that it would cost more in the long run so I figured the $100 saving would probably be eaten away anyway.
TL;DR Colour laser printer, 28ppm, duplex scan, duplex print, good mobile app, good UI, seems to be a reasonable price for a mid-range printer/scanner for August 2020.
how much are the toners?