BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
Just print at your local university or shopping center. A personal printer is just not worth it
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I had the same dilemma.
What worked for me was to buy an old, refurbished, commercial HP laser printer, without the subscription "features". I paid $75 and have saved that much in ink costs, just this year.
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My father had a Brother laser printer. It outlived him. (...Anyway. Have you ever had to do Windows tech support for family? Not always nice. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support? Hoo boy. Ever had to do Windows printer tech support when the printer is hooked through a Centronics-to-USB adapter? Uggh. ...though I was kind of surprised that Windows 10 still had built in drivers for the damn thing.)
Me, I bought a Canon laser which technically has Linux drivers but damn me if I ever got it to print more than the CUPS test page. ...actually I'd rather not talk about CUPS. I have too many bad memories about it. (You can't escape the Printer Madness just by using Linux, oh no.)
I always suspect printing/scanning is easier on linux because by default linux don't have a firewall by default (also driver is always included).
I was trying to setup a firewall on linux, the printing and scanning is as painful as windows if not worse. So now I just turn off the entire firewall if I want to print/scan. Fortunately, I rarely print or scan.
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Laser printers are great, althought I've got me a Pantum because I don't anticipate printing more than one page a month.
This is the first I am hearing of this brand.
How does it fare when compared to, say, Brother?
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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.
A brother laser printer a solid pick
Brother has already started to enshitify, Kyocera is an alternative company that does simple laser printers, with easy and cheap to source generic toners
My Brother printer was literally a barn find, it's still working too.
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.
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I got a Brother Laser Printer from goodwill for dirt cheap that has run great for a long time, havent even put new toner in it yet.
I been through about 10 TN-450 cartridges in my Brother printer and can count on one hand how many jams I've had. And I'm pretty sure they were all because my kid would take paper out and leave a page sitting crooked in the tray.
Recently had to replace the drum.
Ha, nice. My one and only jam was because I completely failed at life trying to load an envelope.
Brother Laser
Mines just been sitting in my closet hooked up for like 10 years now, she works whenever I need her.
That said, we really need to keep printing paper hard copies of important stuff. Like, why do archival projects not charge non-personal (business & government) users a subscription fee for access and provide free personal use to library card holders?
dot matrix printer or nothing at all
I remember trying to print HUGE gamefaqs guides on my dot matrix printer back in the day. Thing literally ran for over 24 hours to print some of the larger ones.
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Teletype or bust!
I can still hear them.
And it was also cool that when it seemed like it was out of ink, you could pop open the cartridge, spray the ribbon with WD-40, and get another 200-300 pages out of it.
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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.
Put your model # in the search box on the AUR and you'll get the driver every time.
Didn't work. Searched and searched, but no luck. Anyways, I got it now, so no need.
I used mine with the old, reliable "HP LaserJet 4200 PS" driver for the first year or two. I only installed the official drivers because I wanted the duplexing to work. lol
With a laser printer, the HP LJ 4200 driver is pretty much universal (have only seem a very few cases where it didn't work)
Greatest article ever: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
Legit solid printer. Would highly recommend