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    Trying to find an Laser Printer that scans A3

    Apparently its difficult to actually find reviews and comparisons. Everywhere I look shows me inkjet printers or A4 printers, but not A3 Laser. I'm aware they might be expensive but Im trying to find at least some models to look at. Anyone had any experience with these? We currently have an HP Inkjet A3 and its... okay? It takes a long time to print even regular stuff. I'm debating just getting a cheap monochrome or color laser printer and saving the inkjet just for scanning.
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    Printers are probably the area I know the least about when it comes to technology lol. Have you tried going directly to the big name websites?

    https://www.xerox.com/en-us/product-finder#

    https://store.hp.com/us/en/vwa/print...iness_0_180805
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    Youd be far better off (and likely way cheaper) getting a good high volume B&W laser printer and a real honest to god scanner (or just keeping the HP for scanning if its doing what you need). You can get a decent B&W laser printer (5-10k pages/month duty cycle) with cheap toner (less than 1c/page) for ~300$.

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    HP do have A3 versions of their PageWide Inkjet MFPs, they're extremely fast (haven't used a colour laser in a long time, but take a look at the specs)
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    Looking into this further, it looks like the only A3 Laser Scanners start at about $4,000. I knew they might be expensive but not that expensive. It doesn't appear that there are any consumer level devices. These are all the large stand-up MFPs.
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    I think im missing something here.

    1 - does it have to be one device?

    2 - does it have to PRINT A3?

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