Brother lasers are pretty great.
Yep. We have a black and white Brother laser printer, and it’s lasted* for at least five years now. Toner is so much cheaper than those stupid, tiny cartridges with not-enough-cyan.
I got mine as a display model when Office Depot/Max were killing off stores that were too close together and I had had no issues in the at least 7 years I’ve had it. Its a black and white printer and have used CVS or where for printing pictures the off chance I need to. I also have only bought toner a time or two over the years. Dual sided scanning and printing? For my occasional use its perfect.
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.
Can you print photos on photo paper?
How many photos are you printing to not use a professional service?
I don’t know, just wondering if you can print photos.
How dare you.
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.
All Brother all the time.
For now at least yes. I would have said the same thing about HP 25years ago.
This thread is pretty much all brother 🤣
It’s the first printer I’ve owned that didn’t make me want to throw it off my balcony
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.
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.
Brother
I’ve been happy with my Brother printer. If you don’t need an inkjet printer, I highly recommend just getting a toner printer. The toner is significantly cheaper, for a significantly greater volume (at least it was the last time I had to buy some, which was ages ago).
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
Brother. Strong, reliable, durable, in my own experience.
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
Joining the brother bandwagon here
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.
I’ve had a Brother MFC-9330CDW for a long time and it’s been great. No driver updates in like 5 years but don’t really need updates when everything works. I moved away from buying official Brother toner several years and buy a budget brand off Amazon. Basically 4 toner carts for less than the price of one official Brother cart.
Same model here. Love it!
It’s Brother: https://www.theverge.com/23642073/best-printer-2023-brother-laser-wi-fi-its-fine
We went with their black and white MFC which also does double sided ADF scanning… and I recently had a bit of FOMO when a colour MFC went on sale (ofc, for like three-four times the price, and at that price I might as well just print colour at a local print shop).
Another good thing about the Brother printers is they work on Linux without too much fiddling
Also Fuck Epson Ecotank series.
I’ve heard good things about it. What’s your take?
The “catch pads” are where they screw you over. They have to be changed regularly. My wife has had to change the pads more than buy new ink. And then you need a $10 code to reset the counter ON TOP of the pad.
Yes, this 100%. Had to bin my old Epson due to the waste ink firmware counter - despite taking the printer apart and redirecting the tank tube into a user emptyable container!
IMO Any “eco tank” inkjet printer with waste ink pads, instead of a user replaceable waste ink tank, is complete garbage
Lemmygizer’s had a bad experience, but our’s has been nothing but good. We’ve had an et-4550 for 6 years, and it’s been great. It’s done double duty since COVID WFH for 2 people.
If I were to replace it, I’d get another.
Our’s doesn’t have a rear load tray, which I miss. The auto-feed scanner works reasonably well. As it’s aged, it’s started to have feed problems with cheap, thin (18#) paper; this was solved by using 20# paper. Duplex printing is flawless.
The only thing I’ve ever bought for it was ink.
I had a color laser Brother once; that cost me more in toner and drums than refillables for this Ecotank. Speed and quality was better on the laser, but the thing also weighed a ton and was hard to move - you do not want to spill toner. I might try a modern laser again, but I’ve been pretty happy with our Ecotank.
Yes, we’ve got an Epson Ecotank too, its been great, and super economical on ink. Bought in the first covid lockdown when our HP shat the bed, still going strong. And its not made in China so another plus
