Actually we have a really cheapo Brother unit here in the office, and it *does* scan to a Mac. But it's a bit finicky. The software acts up and sometimes won't scan unless the computer is restarted. This was supposed to be fixed in one of the updates, but it seems it has not been.

I was eyeing a new low-end Canon laser unit for home, but the scanning on those definitely doesn't work on a Mac; not even sure the printing works. HP low-end laser can be tricky with Macs; the cheapest stuff doesn't have drivers.

Canon usually supports Macs, though, so maybe we'll see some Mac drivers for that eventually. The unit I'm thinking of is the MF3240 which functionally appears to be a good bet.

Currently using HP-6310 with MacBook and no problems. Project for weekend is to upgrade from Tiger to Leopard. OP says C7280 doesn't work with Leopard- should I anticipate a problem?

Thanks for this! It's 157.99 at Amazon right now w/ free shipping. Gets great reviews overall, too. I'm in.

most of these econo multi machines do not paper feed the images worth a damn. so you end up standing over the machine stuffing each page of your fax into it, and when you misstuff, you have to wait til the machine quits so you can redial and start stuffing again.

Just a quick update... I ended up buying the Brother MFC-7820N from costco.com. I love it!

I have the MFC-7820N for about a year (on a small home pc network), and am also very happy with its quality and price. It's about $200 now at Staples, which is a good price for a laser printer with an ethernet connection--throw in the scanning capabilities, copier and fax, and it is a real bargain.

The only area I wish improvement is the ability to scan into a PDF-I find that the file size is larger than what other systems create (this is probably a function of software, and I do knock the scanning resolution down).

I can't seem to find whether this one prints in color or not. Can you tell me?

It scans in color and prints in B&W. I went for a duplexing model, the MFC-8860DN. I'm very happy with it. They also have models with wireless networking.

I see. I'm lookng for one that prints in color. I know I asked before, but I'm more serious now.

If I were buying, I'd go with a Brother. They support the weird OSes I tend to run (XP Pro x64 for example). The one or two times I had to call for support they were excellent. HP has left me lacking drivers on multiple occasions.

Brother's color MFC line can be seen here.

I'd go for one with a built-in network interface. That makes the unit accessible to all machines without any particular one having to be turned on. I also like the duplexing option.

Looks like the prices for color laser printers is still too high for me.

Color laser is remarkably cheap. I recently bought a Brother HL-4040CN from Costco for $279. If you add that to the price of a fax/scanner you can see why the all-in-one units are still so expensive.

Maybe you're right. We already have a multi function ink jet. All we need is the color laser printer portion.