• tok3n@lemmy.world
      22·
      2 years ago

      I’ll only buy Brother printers now. The print quality is pretty good and they just work on my Linux desktop.

    • girthero@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 years ago

      I was in the market this year so shopping around laser color ones I noticed the reviews for even the Brother said it would brick your printer if you use 3rd party toners. So just look before you buy. I ended up buying their more expensive one because of that, but still not entirely sure its 3rd party compatible. Ill research whether thats the case when my toner needs replaced.

  • HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world
    23·
    2 years ago

    Obligatory “buy a Brother B&W laser printer” comment

    They’re actually more economical than modern HP printers because of their anti-consumer BS.

    • Aasikki@lemmy.ml
      5·
      2 years ago

      I got a used brother that had ever only printed one toner cartridges worth of prints, for 15€. It even has wifi, definitely one of the better buys I’ve made. I only need to print a handful of times a year so I anticipate it’ll last me for years and years.

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      canon ones are decent too (if thry didn’t change them since i bought my iSensys MF3010, that thing still works great, except drivers. They work perfectly but are almost impossible to find on the canon website nowadays; works fine on linux too without drivers)

  • fugepe@lemmy.ml
    202·
    2 years ago

    My Brother monochromatic printing ~3000 pages per cartridge going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

  • Saneless@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 years ago

    My Canon wouldn’t scan a document to store on my PC because I was out of yellow ink

    I haven’t given them another cent and it’s been 15 years. Fuck you Canon. Fuck you HP

    • voxel@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 years ago

      my lazer canon mf3010 scans just fine even without a cartridge installed at all.
      I kinda like that printer actually.
      no drm, no wifi, no fancy-ass touchscreens, no bullshit.
      it just prints and scans.
      never complains about low ink until it’s so low the text is barely visible anyway.

  • joneskind@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 years ago

    The last printer I bought was a shitty $80 Samsung Laser Printer that still works on its original toner after 10 years. The print quality is terrible but it’s still the best deal I ever had on a printer.

  • mycoxadril@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    As somebody who didn’t, for once, have this specific problem today, but had a printing problem nonetheless, I feel so triggered by this post.

    Why the actual fuck is printing so much harder today than it was a decade ago. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills that we are halfway through 2023 and I have more printing issues than I did even 4-5 years ago, let alone back in the golden days of literally never having printing issues in the first half of my lifetime.

  • JohnBoBon@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    And that isn’t even getting into their drivers and software. Foolish me bought a printer with a scanner and thought I’d be able to just install one little piece of software and be able to print and scan. How silly of me to forget that I to search Google to find instructions that weren’t provided by HP, and download an application that the printer’s instructions did not tell me to install, in order to get the it working.

    I almost want this printer to die just so I can never own an HP printer again in my life.

  • Under_enrage@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 years ago

    my parent bought a HP deskjet printer for us, but the ink is so expensive that any picture needs be small that the ink don’t run out as quickly. and the software is garbage too.

  • Monologue@lemmy.zip
    1·
    2 years ago

    doesn’t help that printer ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world and the whole business model of printer companies is based on selling overpriced ink, so much so that they sell printers at a loss and then try to block out third party cartridges