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[–] guacupado 105 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] forgetful_fox 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was highly considering a Brother, now I definitely will get one.

[–] teamevil 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Epson Eco Tank is the cheapest best printer I've ever had.

[–] LoftySnowman 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you use a model with pigment inks or dye inks? I currently use a pigment based hp inkjet. I thought about switching to ecotank but the pigment refills are comparable to hp pigment cost. I assume the ecotank would get a higher page count from the same cost of ink? The pigment based ecotank models I shopped around were quite a bit more expensive than the entry level dye based models.

[–] teamevil 2 points 1 year ago

I use the cheap Eko tank that doesn't auto feed...wish I had done the auto feed. It just takes a 15 dollar bottle of ink for each color. In 4 years I've used one black bottle and 1/2 the colors.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek 5 points 1 year ago

I've had two in the span of about 16 years. Only reason I got a new one was because I couldn't find decent drivers for it for Windows 8. Considering with HP and Epson inkjets they wouldn't even last 2 years, 8+ years is a good deal. Brother printers are excellent.

[–] Alchemy 4 points 1 year ago

Mines been good. Light to medium duty use.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've had my brother for 11 years, still going strong

[–] SoleInvictus 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm at five years for ours. We used the included 'teaser' toner cartridge for almost three years. After the first year, it warned us the toner was low. We laughed and turned the warning off and it just continued to provide toner for nearly another two years.

We now have an "extra large" toner cartridge. Like owning a parrot, my wife and I expect it'll outlast both of us and our children or grandchildren will get stuck with it. We're both 35.

[–] Lev_Astov 3 points 1 year ago

I got a huge office printing center thing from government liquidation out of my nearby military base for $55. It came with more toner than I could ever use in my lifetime.

[–] PurpleTentacle 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sadly, they are also evil now. Latest firmware (~2020) outright blocks third party cartridges or, even more evil, accepts them and then secretly and intentionally, prints like crap:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131

Everything until ~2019 is awesome, though. Just disable firmware updates.