HP offers free shipping, and free return in 21 days if you don't like it. I usually order from Amazon, but HP looks pretty good to me for this printer. The drivers for the printer do not enable all functions to work (did you notice that in the reviewer's comments?). They say the drivers will be updated by end of this month. Do you think that's anything to worry about? The 1007 is out and they are still calling this one "new?" Wow they move fast! Where in Canada...would that be an online vendor? HP product or wannabe? As for the cable, I'll compare HP's price with cablestogo.com. Thanks for your comments.

OKI Electric developed its LED printhead technology for electro-photographic printing for reliable printing in various applications. Laser systems rely on elaborate combinations of rotating mirrors and lenses that must remain in alignment through use. The laser scans from one end of a line to another, then zig-zags down to the next line. LED technology uses a Light Emitting Diode printhead as a light source within the imaging device. Unlike laser systems, the LED printhead is solid-state and has no moving parts. The LED bar pulse-flashes across the entire page width and creates the image on the print drum as it moves down. OKI also has a straight-line paper path that's less susceptible to jams when feeding heavy stock, envelopes or labels. LED technology is the future. We're so sure of this that we guarantee the printhead of every OKI page printer for five full years  by far the longest warranty in the industry! That's the difference, that's a very good printer you have there print quality and reliability and can be used in a work group more then 1 person using it so it is built to last. Did you like the printer when it worked if so fix it and it will probably out last the the ones you listed.. Lets see what others say, I currently use a brother all in one model MFC 7420 and happy with it. Tech Infomation copied from oki web site, found by Googling "led laser"

I had my CR2015 buying guide beside my computer. i see you are looking for the regular printers rather than all in one. CR likes three Brothers. I imagine the hl3170 replaces the 3140 at $280. i see that the big difference between ink jet and lazers are the doubled ink/month costs based on some average of pages printed. Perhaps your child is above that. There are three higher rated printers but the first two are 3x and 2x more expensive for ink. The samsung color xpress c1810w is in 3rd place with similar ink and machine cost to the Brother. BTW, the only laser check rated model was the ink hog Dell C1660w. I see that you could get an inkjet with half the Brother ink costs (HP officeJet Pro 251dw. I also see that my own Canon inkjet probably uses ink costing like the Brother, so I should probably get another machine if I wanted to save ink costs.

Is this a color laser printer? If it's this printer, maybe it's only meant for documents? I don't see anything in the manual about printing photos. But page 3.5 (or 25 in adobe) has a section about custom-sized printing. JoanMN/FL Here is a link that might be useful: clp 300