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B&H Photo Video has the Brother HL-2270DW Wireless Duplex Monochrome Laser Printer for $80 + $2 shipping = $82 shipped. Features 802.11g Wi-Fi, LAN and USB connectivity, and prints up to 27 ppm.
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NewEgg also has this printer on sale for the same price ($79.99) with $1.99 shipping through 5/16.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16828113545
Fry's Electronics (if you have one close to you) also has it on sale through 5/17 for $79.99 (I presume only in-store).
http://www.frys-electronics-ads.com/ads/2011/05/06/53388/
Can't speak about its quality...hopefully someone can help there.
While this is a good printer, it does have its issues. The starter toner cartridge runs out more quickly than advertised, so after a few hundred pages you'll spend another $40.00+ for a new cartridge. But the most important issue with this printer is the power draw. To get the printer to operate quickly Brother designed the printer to draw lots of power on startup or coming out of sleep mode. On an older home or on an outlet with other devices attached, this printer might dim your lights or even trigger a UPS that's on the same circuit. Some users consider this a minor bacon, while others don't have any power problems at all.
Overall, this is a good printer that also works well with Macs.
I picked one of these up from Amazon a few weeks back for about the same price, and it's been amazing.
I haven't hit it yet, but people say the "replace toner" message you get with the initial cartridge is more of a "buy a new toner, because yours will run out soon" message. Push some buttons and the error goes away and you get a few hundred more prints out of it before quality suffers. On top of that, if you do toner save mode or something, that initial few hundred is going to be quite a few more.
Also, there's an extended capacity cartridge for ~$55 that gets something like 3.5k pages if I remember right. I probably haven't printed that many pages in my life, in fact, the initial cartridge will probably last me well over a year.
I haven't noticed it drawing a ton of power on startup, but I generally have good wiring in my house. It starts really, really fast though, so whatever it does, I'm glad it does it.