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“Once upon a time, I bought a Brother color laser. It never failed to do its job. The End.”
I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.
I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.
In all fairness, my cheap Brother laser printer hasn’t let me down at all. Unlike the HP inkjets of the past.
Big Brother loves you. Really, those are the best printers right now.
my wife was having some problems finding the right W11 drivers for our Brother HL-2030 and dared to utter the thought of replacing it
I shut that down right quick
I bought mine (HL2270-DW) 12 years ago for college. Last week I plugged it in after it sat for several years and printed off some stuff for family with 0 problems. I think it’s only on its second toner as well.
They last much longer in storage /without printing because toner is a powder, so it can’t dry out. The print head of an inkjet printer (part of the cartridge) will dry out if you don’t use it for a few weeks.
Still the exact same printer my family has been using for the past 10 years after our old Inkjet kicked the bucket a measly 3 months after it was born. And it has seen some stuff, including being dropped at least twice, plastic film in the paper compartment, coffee-stained (for aged effect) paper, and even a x-acto knife blade that somehow ended up in there.
My experience has also been that laser printers work a lot more reliably.
Heck, even my 7 year old HP laserprinter is doing just fine, still
Granted, I print like 70 pages a year, but that’s still better than the inktjet before!
laser is especially nice if you don’t print often since you don’t have to worry about ink drying up
I don’t know why you’re getting down voted (or is it called something else on Lemmy?)
Is what you said not true? Maybe someone who would down vote can shine light on this?we have some angry people on here :)
It’s really disturbing just how relevant that movie still is today.
The longer I work in the tech industry, the more I empathize with it. All the warning signs were there but I ignored them 😭
indeed
Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.
Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,
They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
With how expensive colour ink is, that’s also stupid
