BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
Tbh, get a Brother printer for any OS. At least they don’t buy into the shitfuckery that HP and others do with ink and firmware updates.
They are starting to now.
Greatest article ever: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
Legit solid printer. Would highly recommend
I use a canon… so yeah… better get a brother
Incredibly I’ve had two printers I’ve never really had issues with.
- The brother laser my sister uses with Ubuntu without a hitch since forever
- The canon inkjet printer/scanner that is wifi connected in my flatshare
I got a Canon MF3010 laser printer a few years back. It is attached to a print server made out of an old Mac laptop I had. It has been great. I can print to it from anything, Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and I have had to replace the toner once since I got it.
CUPS picks up my TR7020 just fine. It’s still an inkjet piece of garbage, but it works fine lol
Canons are probably the best consumer grade, but you’ll save money in the long run by just buying an Ink Tank printer instead. Just make sure you do regular maintenance so it doesn’t explode ink out the bottom, used to be a big issue in the 90s.
Are they a good choice if you only need to print a few times a year? I thought laser printers are better for that since there’s no ink to dry out.
I’ve never had a cartridge dry out but if you’re not printing a variety of things from glossy photographs to courtroom documents then you should probably just get the cheapest per-use option like a brother laser printer, yeah. The canon cleans its own printheads automatically, idk how common that is.
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.
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.
Just print at your local university or shopping center. A personal printer is just not worth it
A simple black/white laser printer for documents and more importantly, shipping labels. It would be annoying for anything that you’re returning to have to print out the packing slip and label at the local shop. Then anything that you actually need color or quality printing, just send it out to get printed at the local shop.
It’s also annoying to buy expensive ink, debug printer issues and have the printer take up space in your home. Guess it’s a matter of what annoys you more
I said to buy a laser printer and you’re complaining about ink. Tell me you don’t understand what we’re talking about without telling me. I last spent $60 on toner in 2019 and the printer still works great. 5 years of printing when I need it is worth the cost instead of driving to staples every time even though it’s literally 2 min away.
Hm, looks like I equated laser printers with ink ones. I have no experience with laser printers, so they may actually be a lot better. Still, the upfront cost of printer plus accessories is not worth it for me when I print so rarely
Brother, you just described why I bought a toner based printer. The ink is cheap AF, doesn’t dry out, doesn’t require frequent test pages, doesn’t brick if I disable the ink subscription because I don’t print that much, the drivers are all released GPL by the printer company, and it can just sit on a shelf I wasn’t using anyway. I haven’t looked at it in weeks and as an added bonus I dropped the print contrast to increase the longevity of the toner cartridge.
Good for you
Yeah that’s the crap a Brother laser printer makes go away.
Driving 30 minutes into town every time I have to print something isn’t worth it
Don’t you have a printer at work where you drive anyways?
I work remote. About once a month I have to print a shipping label or something for drop off. Having a printer in the house greatly increases turn about on that and important papers
You mean my house?
Ok, when you also don’t have family which leaves the house more regularly than you, then yes, maybe you should buy a Brother™️ printer…
If your job is doing paperwork then it may also be a good investment
Most people don’t work in a comfy office with access to a printer.
It depends on your usage. I don’t need one and have a public library down the street. So a printer is something I will most likely never buy
i our household it definetely is. selling stuff on ebay or returning packages is most of what we use it for, and 200-300€ plus 10-20€ in ink bottles every year or so will eventually be cheaper too.
not saying you have to buy one for yourself, it’s just worth the money for many people.
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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.
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?
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.
HP: furiously taking notes
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.
Ah, the star trek method
Something I always enjoy during the TOS era movies is when they pull out actual paper. Like during Wrath of Kahn IIRC they pull out a physical paper book that has Reliant’s SSH codes to disable the shields. Another happens during Undiscovered Country when they need to actually speak Klingon, they get out a bunch of paper books. The Federation has a printing office.
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.
Okidata Microline dot matrix printer has entered the chat
They’re fine until they get off track with the page perforations. And the ribbons last quite a while, but are technically a security risk
Wow, I think I had an Okidata modem at one point. I haven’t thought about that in a long time.
made me realize I have had my brother printer for about 10 years now.
Same. I bought a 4-pack of toner refills with it. I’m on the 2nd one.
I’m not even a linux user. Just here to learn. Windows is my daily driver for work and play…
Still all my printers are brother lasers.
My oldest is around 10 years old still running on the same toner… Picked out of the trash from an office move even.
Just get a HP Inkjet bro ^joke!
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!
This has nothing to do with Linux. Do you want your printer to work? Are you buying a printer because you need to print things? It’s simple.
Some of us buy printers because we have abuse and humiliation fetishes. My OfficeJet is the kinkiest product I own.
