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I have one of those at the office. Great multi function printer for the money.

JPK

Didn't really think I needed a printer until this weekend. Need something quicker than our Samsung laser printer (color. Would love to have a scanner and a copier this time around. Did a little digging and this one (MF642Cdw) looks like a nice little workhorse. But, wondering if I should splurge and the get higher end model MF656Cdw (1200x1200 versus 600 x 600).

Another reason to go for the MF656Cdw would be the duplex auto feeder for scanning (and copying) vs the single sided auto feeder on the MF642Cdw.

And Office Depot has the MF656Cdw for $300 (but not currently in stock).
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Gareth,

Are you talking dual-pass duplex scanning or single-pass duplex scanning? If I were in the market for an all-in-one, I'd spend the extra bucks for single-pass duplex scanning. It's a game changer.

I first had it on my office's HP Officejet Pro 9025e and I couldn't believe how much better it was than dual-pass duplex scanning. So good, I bought a Fujitsu desktop scanner with the feature for home. I ended up getting a newer version of that scanner for my office, too.

Once you've used single-pass duplex scanning, you'll not want to go back to multi-pass duplex scanning. It's that good.

Robert