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

  • Talaraine@fedia.io
    17·
    11 months ago

    If any representative from Brother is reading this, hear me.

    DON’T ENSHITTIFY! You see this? You can own the market if you just LEAVE IT ALONE.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
      3·
      11 months ago

      DON’T ENSHITTIFY!

      They kind of already did, at least they did in the past.

      They fought pretty hard to make you only use their toners, and they would warn you to change your toner cartridges way earlier than it was necessary to do so, disabling the printer if you didn’t. I remember having to put tape over the optical device in the printer that looks at the toner cartridge, just so I can keep using my toner cartridge.

      Don’t get me wrong, I love my brother mfc7840w printer, but it’s so weird to hear so much praise for Brother, it’s like there is group amnesia about how they used to be on some of this stuff themselves.

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      They have started chipping their toners, or so I’ve read. They’re still the least shitty printer manufacturer, AFAIK, though.

  • neidu2@feddit.nl
    4·
    11 months ago

    I honestly don’t remember my printer brand. And that’s a good sign. I bought it years ago, and it now lives under my basement stairs on a static IP via wifi, accepting the on average bimonthly print job that I need from it. Then I walk down, fetch the print, and close the door on it again. I should name it Harry Potter.

  • BreadOven@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 months ago

    I inherited a Brother laser printer from a lab I was once in. Apparently the toner only says it’s almost out via an infrared sensor. I read you can tape over the part on the toner cartridge and it will keep printing until it actually runs out.

    I’ve printed so many more things after I did that, it’s actually still going now.

    • amphetaminisiert@feddit.nl
      1·
      11 months ago

      You can also disable that in the menu. I bought a brother printer and it said that the toner was empty so I purchased a new toner cartridge but then I disabled the warning and I’m still on the original toner. And I printed so much stuff with it, it’s like it never runs out 😂

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    I’ve used tons of dot matrix, inkjets and lasers since the 80s. I’ve used them in MSDOS, ProDOS, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, OSX, and BeOS. I don’t know how many I’ve owned or how many different OS versions but I know I’ve had exactly 1 printer that wasn’t constantly a problem and its a Brother laser printer.

  • lseif@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    11 months ago

    can you recommend a good printer ?

    Get a brother laser. 👨

    can you tell me how to kill a High Ganzonian ?

    Get a laser, brother. 👽

  • drascus@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’ve had a brother laser printer for 8 years now. Recently my wife was asked “can we get a color printer” and I said but we have at least 5+ years of toner left in this thing!

  • ɐɥO@lemmy.ohaa.xyz
    1·
    11 months ago

    Been using an old HP Laser printer for like forever and it still works pretty well. Havent had a single problem with it

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      1·
      11 months ago

      old

      laser

      That’s the key

      Brother just has the most recent ones, but if you can find an old laser the brand almost doesn’t matter.

  • raptore39@lemm.ee
    1·
    11 months ago

    Recently bought a Brother laser printer. We use Linux, macOS, Windows 11, Android and iOS in the house and it just works.

      • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        11 months ago

        run a mixed network - have never had a single problem with my brother color laser from any device - win10, 11, mac, a bunch of different distros of linux… android and ios phones.

        what kind of problems have you had on windows?

        • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
          1·
          11 months ago

          One particular model won’t scan on Windows until remove some random file.

          Obscure but it drove me crazy at work. I spent so much time on something that should of never happened

  • Lev_Astov@lemmy.world
    1·
    11 months ago

    I’m a big proponent of buying government surplus office printers. I have this huge print center collater thing that came with more toner than I’ll ever use in my life. $55

    • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      11 months ago

      Oh gods yes. Government surplus equipment is amazing when you can find it.

      My state used to send all their decommissioned IT equipment to a warehouse where the public could buy it. It was a wonderland. My first few laptops all came from there (was poor and that was the only way I could afford one).

      About 5 years ago, though, they stopped that and only send old furniture there. Anything electronic now goes to some 3rd party e-waste service where it probably ends up in a landfill in some poor country.

    • somenonewho@feddit.de
      1·
      11 months ago

      Incredibly I’ve had two printers I’ve never really had issues with.

      1. The brother laser my sister uses with Ubuntu without a hitch since forever
      2. The canon inkjet printer/scanner that is wifi connected in my flatshare
  • jack@monero.town
    0·
    11 months ago

    Just print at your local university or shopping center. A personal printer is just not worth it

  • macniel@feddit.de
    0·
    11 months ago

    If you are a casual printer user, just use the local print shop. It’s cheaper that way.

    • bleistift2@feddit.deEnglish
      01·
      11 months ago

      The last printer I got cost 40€. Print shops charge 10ct per copy. That’s 400 prints just to amortize the cheapest garbage printer you could buy 10 years ago. And the ink doesn’t last 400 prints. Owning a printer just doesn’t make sense.

      • KISSmyOS@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        You pay for the convenience.
        I don’t often need to print something, but when I do, it’s usually outside of the opening hours of a print shop and I’m in a hurry.
        (95% of my printing are fantasy RPG floor plans that I’ve downloaded literally 5 minutes before the players show up.)

      • DoomBot5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        02·
        11 months ago

        Toner in laser printers is powder. Can’t dry out what’s already dry. If you get a brother laser printer, it will last forever.

  • GTG3000@programming.dev
    0·
    11 months ago

    Laser printers are great, althought I’ve got me a Pantum because I don’t anticipate printing more than one page a month.

      • dandu3@lemmy.world
        1·
        11 months ago

        I’ve looked into them when buying a new printer. They’re the cheapest laser you can buy, but the refills include the drums, which makes them way more expensive. They’re also extremely small for a laser.

        I ended up buying an epson ecotank, which is a lot slower than a laser, but it’s still on the original ink after 800+ pages and it’s never been problematic even if I leave it for a couple months without printing. Doesn’t seem to clog up like others have reported

      • GTG3000@programming.dev
        1·
        11 months ago

        I don’t have a Brother to compare it to, but it works just fine to print and scan documents. I got it set up on wifi because I wanted to shove it into a corner where it won’t get in the way, and it’s working perfectly fine.

        Although their android app sucks.

        • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.world
          1·
          11 months ago

          Thanks for sharing the recommendation as well as your thoughts on it.

          I wanted to shove it into a corner where it won’t get in the way

          That is the kind of printer I am looking for as well. :-)