Brother lasers are pretty great.
This is the way.
I got a b/w Brother laser and have been using it with Windows, Linux and Android devices with no issues. It has lasted me through 6 years of university and I’ve only replaced the toner once. Probably the best technology investment I’ve ever made.
deleted by creator
How many photos are you printing to not use a professional service?
deleted by creator
Generally no, image quality on color lasers isn’t great but you can print them, just not great. I usually want glossy prints for frames but not often enough for me to print them at home on a consumer quality ink jet printer. I usually go to a print shop or somewhere that has a professional printer.
Hell, even CVS Walgreens and Walmart have better photo printers than any consumer off the shelf model.
How dare you.
All Brother all the time.
For now at least yes. I would have said the same thing about HP 25years ago.
Brother. Don’t ever look at anything else.
My previous Brother laser lasted me over 14 years using only the original toner provided inside the box. I merely had to shake it once a year to redistribute the toner inside it.
Even if I had to buy another genuine cartridge during that 12 year run, it would have been worth it. I had to get another printer simply because that specific model had been discontinued for years, and I couldn’t find a replacement drum.
Not bad for a $109 printer.
HP cartridges barely last a month, costs $40 each, and if you don’t use it for a couple of weeks, they no longer work.
Had to buy an HP inkjet to make custom printed shirts for an event; never again.
That thing ended costing upwards of $200 for 2 months of use.
I’ll buy Brother and their genuine laser toner cartridges anytime.
This thread is pretty much all brother 🤣
We’re all brothers in Brother
Count me in as a happy Brother user. I used to think they were the knock off crappy printer but once I started to see more of them poo up and how much better they worked… I just bought myself an all in one laser one. Couldn’t be happier. It works so well, and no bullshit in Linux either. Works there too. Hp used to be the easy way but they’re not so great anymore.
It’s the first printer I’ve owned that didn’t make me want to throw it off my balcony
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.
My brother laser printer has been going for like 7 years. I bought a replacement drum head recently but that’s the only thing other than toner that it has needed.
Happy brother user here. We had a hp and the bastard had connection troubles then ended up only printing blank pages. Never again.
I thought you meant happy brother as an euphemism for hp
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
Brother
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
Brother laser , no WiFi , no color , prints perfect everytime. Cost like 200 euro. Edit checked model HL-L23100
The ones that have a network jack, and WiFi that you can turn off are OK too!
Brother. Strong, reliable, durable, in my own experience.
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.
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.
HP purchased Samsung’s printer department about 5 years ago
Dammit!
Samsung’s printer division was acquired by HP. I had a computer drive failure and after reinstalling the Samsung (now HP) driver I had nothing but printer connection issues (printer doesn’t wake up, driver says printer unavailable). Wish I had copied the original driver to a flash drive. Finally gave up and bought a Brother MFD laser. That’s been working flawlessly.
20 year old HP LaserJet
Honestly, i have 20 year old hp and epson printers and they don’t have this proprietary problems modern ones have
I love HP! They prove that successive generations of technology are not necessarily improvements. I hate my parents HP printer. I thought I taught them better than that but apparently not.
Everyone talking about Brother but does the point still stands for the newer models?
No, it doesn’t. Not even the old ones, because Brother is rolling out malicious firmware updates even to older models:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
If you have one of the remaining good Brother printers, make sure firmware updates are disabled.
Upvote for.disabling firmware. It’s a sad state when the average printer consumer needs to know how to disable firmware updates and even needs sysadmin skills to know how to block a host from the internet.
Then I’m lucky mine only been connected to Linux. Thanks for the headsup
deleted by creator
