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    BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I loved my old HP laser printer. It was 5+ years old when I got it and it lasted another 10. Had a HUGE toner cartridge that was relatively cheap if you got the knockoffs.

    I currently have a Ricoh multifunction SP C261SFNw. It's not bad. Black toner cartridge doesn't have anywhere near the amount of pages I'd like but sure beats the cost of ink!

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    dot matrix printer or nothing at all

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    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

    This post is a reminder that I might have to take another look at used printers for sale, get something that won't suck whenever I need to print RPG character sheets and other stuff for tabletop gaming

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

    Brother printers have been a recommendation under Windows users for a long time too already. Not that they're perfect either but pretty much everyone's fed up with the bullshit of the likes of HP.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

    That's not entirely true. I've been a Mac user since 1989 and I also recommend Brother laser printers

    [–] Fedizen 5 points 7 months ago

    A brother laser printer a solid pick

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I have an Epson inkjet that I'm not going to throw away yet. It's 6 years old though, not sure if they still make it.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My gripe with inkjets, expensive / DRM'd cartridges aside, is the ink just dries up or gets used in maintenance cycles whether you print or not.

    Or is yours one of the tank models? I think those are less inefficient in that regard, right?

    [–] dojan 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    As far as I know, the tank models are just as bad. They need to flush the system, which they do onto a sponge which when saturated means the printer is broken.

    [–] wreckedcarzz 5 points 7 months ago

    HP: furiously taking notes

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Mine is a cartridge model, an XP-830 "Small-in-One" that gets used...maybe once a year. As I said I'm not throwing it away yet. Further info: I bought a tablet computer specifically so that I wouldn't have to print out my drawings for use in the wood shop, because I want to stop printing things entirely.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I got a small xerox laser. It's fantastic. Works on everything I'm the house, including phones, tablets, windows and Linux. It's a bit more eh feature rich than I was expecting, but after tinkering in the settings I've not had to touch it in years.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You know, I've never considered a Xerox (despite them being kind of OG in that department lol).

    I guess I just assumed they only made the big MFP's for offices.

    Will keep them in mind. Thanks.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It's a xerox B230 if you're interested. It's small, and as survived cats, a 4yr old and several water spills lol.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    and as survived cats, a 4yr old and several water spills lol.

    Now that's an endorsement!

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    It's funny but i did find a brother laser printer in trash. It was working fine so i sold it since i already had a newer model.

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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Brother printers are great. Probably the only decent printer brand for home usage. My university has free printing, and those are Canon printers. They seem to work fine, so I guess the commercial market is a little different.

    Weirdly, my parents have this Samsung M2020W printer, and I gotta say, it's pretty neat. Takes any off-brand toner cartridge. They only need a cartridge every year or so. It's been 3+ years, but no problem so far. That might be an exceptional case, though.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

    Sharp also make great commerical-grade printers that are 100% Linux compatible, we're using these at work: http://global.sharp/products/copier/products/bp_70c65/index.html

    They don't really make anything small enough to be a "home" model, this looks like their smallest printer: https://global.sharp/products/copier/products/mx_c358f/index.html (and that's around $1000, if you could even find someone to sell you one).

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    I used to have a Samsung laser for quite a few years. Went through maybe three toner cartridges. Eventually it started slipping and I didn't bother finding out if there's a repair available and bought a brother laser instead. Worked pretty great otherwise.

    Haven't tried toner transfer on this, but regular printouts are fine and it's much faster.

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    [–] 9point6 5 points 7 months ago

    Weirdly I think I have one of the last half-decent HP all-in-one printers from about a decade and a half ago

    It takes third party ink and still more or less works as it did when I got it.

    I'll probably get a brother the day it finally dies though

    [–] merthyr1831 5 points 7 months ago

    I inherited an Canon Pixma MG3600 from a friend who got a new printer of her own, and it's been impressively stable for years now.

    A really solid printing experience on Linux; I'd say "plug and play" but I've got it set up for wireless printing and it worked immediately without plugging in!

    I've not tried the scanner on Linux but it worked on Mac out of the box without proprietary drivers so I can imagine the same for Linux.

    [–] NABDad 4 points 7 months ago

    I'm kind of fond of my okidata c332dn. It's my daily driver.

    I have Brother multifunction printer. However, it's run out of toner, and I don't have the funds right now to purchase new cartridges.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Also true for windows!

    Brother printers are just that good.

    [–] jg1i 4 points 7 months ago

    I mean, I'm pretty happy with mine! 10/10 would recommend!

    [–] dog_ 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    My brother printer didn't have drivers for arch and it took me days, and the community to help me get it up and running.

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