About 9 years ago while I was in college I decided to invest in a laser printer. The amount of printing I had to do for class presentations, homework and all the exams with "open material" was huge and spending the crazy amount of money back then (I think it was like $600) on a printer paid back on the amount I saved on ink. I think that in the 3 years I used it in school I had to replace the toner only once (!) while before that I had to replace the ink in my other printer almost every month!
Last month I decided to do this again and add a laser printer to my HP all-in-one Inkjet printer for any bulk printing I need to do. I did some research on the Internet and decided that I want to buy something basic and good without spending too much money. Another thing I tried to figure out is where to put the printer since I'm running out of space. Between my desktop, HP printer, laptop and paper there's not a lot of room in my "L" shaped desk and I didn't want to run any long USB cables across my office.
I decided to buy the Brother HL-2710W. It is an entry level laser printer with great features of high-end printers. It is capable of printing 23 pages per minute (black), 2400x600 dpi and the best thing about it is that it is wireless! This means that I can pretty much put in anywhere I want in my office or even in a different room and print to it from any computer or laptop that is connected to my wireless network.
When I unboxed the printer I was happy to see it's actually smaller that it looked on the pictures. The setup was pretty easy. You just follow the easy instruction guide using the included CD. When you setup the printer you need to plug it with an Ethernet cable to your network to configure the wireless settings, password etc. After the short setup you can unplug the printer and put it anywhere you want. The printer is available as a wireless network resource and you can use the CD on the other computers in the network to configure the printer on them also. Pretty easy and it works great! I was able to configure the printer from my XP machines and even from my Vista 64bit machine without any trouble.
This printer retails for $149.99, but when I bought the printer I was able to get an amazing deal on Buy.com for $104.99 including free shipping
which made the deal sweeter and decision much easier. The printer has been working great since I got it and I recommend it to anyone that is looking for a laser printer 
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