Just bought a new Brother color laser all-in-one the MFC 9130CW. Got it on sale at Best Buy of all places for $259 plus tax. Available for this price now from Amazon.
My choice was based on:
-We do a decent amount of scanning and copying, so an all-in-one was desired.
-I wanted color laser in part due to ink cost versus toner cost, but mostly because I wanted to be able to print rocket decals without worry of them smearing like water soluble inks do. Also, inkjets do a lot of fussing when they come out of standby... my prior printer sometimes would do odd things for five minutes before printing the first page.
-It had to be Google Cloud Print Ready. No muss, no fuss. This eliminated most HP color laser all in ones, since many make you go through their "HP PRINT" server to use Google Cloud Print. Really annoying, because there was a good one that I was about to buy, before I found out about this issue with their Google Cloud Print function.
Given my specifications, some research (obsession for a couple hours actually) led me to the Brother 9130CW. It met all my specs and I am VERY pleased with it so far.
It replaces a Canon Pixma MX922 ... it wasn't a bad printer, and I liked that you could replace individual color ink reservoirs instead of wasting ink, but it started reporting that it was broken, requiring turn off / on cycling, and it frequently disconnected from Google Cloud Print (again requiring off / on cycles, and the whole idea was for me to print to it when I wasn't home [long story]), and it spent so much time moving the print head around doing cleanings or whatever. Drove me nuts. Eventually said screw it. It is being relegated to being my auxiliary scanner, down near where I do rocket stuff.
Only negative so far about the 9130CW is that despite what the instructions say, it has no Ethernet port. Have to connect via wireless or USB. That's annoying to me because I like wired Ethernet connections (no muss, no fuss), but since it sits within 3 feet of the wifi router in my office, I've had no wifi issues with it. I'm dropping this objection for now.
Prints nicely, wakes up quickly from sleep, good quality scans...
Marc