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Brother lasers are pretty great.

All Brother all the time.

This thread is pretty much all brother 🤣

Brother. Don’t ever look at anything else.

I've been happy with my Brother printer. If you don't need an inkjet printer, I highly recommend just getting a toner printer. The toner is significantly cheaper, for a significantly greater volume (at least it was the last time I had to buy some, which was ages ago).

Brother

Did well with Brother laser printer. Canon was okay.

I had setup a friend's HP printer and noticed he was constantly switching to WiFi Direct in order to print. I did him the favor of connecting it to the AP, so he wouldn't have to manually switch all the time.

The moment it got online, the printer locked itself down and refused to continue print until he paid for a subscription service on the ink.

Happy brother user here. We had a hp and the bastard had connection troubles then ended up only printing blank pages. Never again.

Brother. Strong, reliable, durable, in my own experience.

Joining the brother bandwagon here

Get a laser printer not an inkjet printer

Inkjet printers will crap out if not used constantly due to the ink lines getting blocked with dry ink

I've got a brother laser printer and it works great

It's Brother: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine

We went with their black and white MFC which also does double sided ADF scanning... and I recently had a bit of FOMO when a colour MFC went on sale (ofc, for like three-four times the price, and at that price I might as well just print colour at a local print shop).

Brother. Mine, a laser monochrome, is 12 years old and works perfectly fine

In addition to the Brotherly love, we have multiple Samsung ML-1865W laser printers that have been consistently reliable for years with no janky printing software and I have even used the $6 or whatever bottle of loose powder to refill although the regular cartridges are more convenient.

Going laser and not HP is the most important parts.

Also Fuck Epson Ecotank series.

Brother monochrome laser

I've had a Brother MFC-9330CDW for a long time and it's been great. No driver updates in like 5 years but don't really need updates when everything works. I moved away from buying official Brother toner several years and buy a budget brand off Amazon. Basically 4 toner carts for less than the price of one official Brother cart.

Brother

Also here to shill Brother laser printers

Brother, my brother. My little HL1200 serves my needs nicely, is cheap to run with both genuine and third party toner, ~~and the company isn't run by a bunch of greedy pigs. Probably the only printer brand I'll ever buy again.~~ Fuck HP indeed.

Edit: discovered Brother plays that game too

No printer. Unless you really print frequently, just use printing services from place like Staples, FedEx or UPS. Your local library probably even does printing. The drive is better than dealing with a printer.

At work we sell our customers (small but high volume printing) regular brozher laser printers.
For s/w: HL-L5100DN or MFC-L5750D(W or N? Don't remember)

20 year old HP LaserJet

Brother had one for almost a decade now and not 1 issue

Ink jet printers are a cartel and a scam

Brother laser , no WiFi , no color , prints perfect everytime. Cost like 200 euro. Edit checked model HL-L23100

I had a Brother black and white laser (I think a HL1240?) for almost 10 years and then we started having to print a ton of education related stuff for our kid and colour made sense, so I got the closest thing that I could to the colour one that I use at work which ended up being a DCPL3551CDW.

Printing a little in Windows and Linux, but more often from apps on my Android phone and my partners iPhone.

I absolutely hate printers, but they have been fine.

Check the EFF's list of printers without tracking dots

They are probably all pretty old, but you should be able to make a good Ebay search

printer (model-a,b,c) -replacement -for

or similar

But,

Brother here too. I bought a used one to save some money. It did come with a small printing problem that wasn't stated in the refurb description, but it was a problem i could live with for the savings, and has worked perfectly except for that one problem ever since.

I have a Brother HL-L3230CDW. It has been a horse and has quickly become my most prized possession of all things that I own. It takes anyone's toner and produces quality without question. It works with my various Linux, Macs, Windows, and Android devices without hesitation and minimal fuss to get setup.

So that's what I would recommend. Is a good bit of coin up front but in my opinion, it has paid for itself in cheaper long run TCO and sanity in that it just fucking works.

Everyone talking about Brother but does the point still stands for the newer models?

I got myself a Xerox printer because I figured I'd be familiar with the interface since all the offices I worked in had Xerox printers, plus I figured getting a near-corporate printer might keep some of the bullshit away since Xerox would probably not want to motivate their corporate customers to switch brands. AFAICT they probably get most of their business through service, not so much product.

So far it has worked out well. I have yet to buy a Xerox brand toner cartridge, and I've had this printer for several years and I keep getting consistent high quality prints. Some of the features are not super intuitive, but I don't think it's terrible to have to read the manual once in awhile.

I love my HP printer. Always prints when I ask it to every few months, uses third party toner, 0 issues whole time I've had it. Of course it's a laserjet from 2004 so it's built a bit different. I wouldn't recommend a new HP though lol.

I have a brother laser at home and on the rare occasion I need color prints I send them to Office Depot.