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.
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.
This is the way.
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).
All Brother all the time.
For now at least yes. I would have said the same thing about HP 25years ago.
Brother. Strong, reliable, durable, in my own experience.
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
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.
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
Joining the brother bandwagon here
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.
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!
Brother
Brother monochrome laser
Brother. Mine, a laser monochrome, is 12 years old and works perfectly fine
At work we sell our customers (small but high volume printing) regular brozher laser printers.
For s/w: HL-L5100DN or MFC-L5750D(W or N? Don’t remember)Also here to shill Brother laser printers
