BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
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.
We bought an HP laser printer a few years ago.. it drives me crazy in that when it goes to sleep mode, it never recovers, meaning you have to power cycle it to get it to respond again. Once it's power cycled, it's .. fine, although I curse it anyway since it's 2024 and how can they still make printers that still do this shit.
Anyway.
In Windows, on my wife's and kids' Windows PCs, it works most of the time but was a huge pain to set up with the stupid apps.
On Android, it works most of the time after setting up stupid apps.
On my Linux desktops, it worked perfectly out of the box on both of them. I couldn't believe it. One desktop is Manjaro and the other is Mint
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?
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.
It's funny but i did find a brother laser printer in trash. It was working fine so i sold it since i already had a newer model.
Weirdly I think I have one of the last half-decent HP all-in-one printers from about a decade and a half ago
It takes third party ink and still more or less works as it did when I got it.
I'll probably get a brother the day it finally dies though
That's not entirely true. I've been a Mac user since 1989 and I also recommend Brother laser printers
A brother laser printer a solid pick
I got a small xerox laser. It's fantastic. Works on everything I'm the house, including phones, tablets, windows and Linux. It's a bit more eh feature rich than I was expecting, but after tinkering in the settings I've not had to touch it in years.
You know, I've never considered a Xerox (despite them being kind of OG in that department lol).
I guess I just assumed they only made the big MFP's for offices.
Will keep them in mind. Thanks.
It's a xerox B230 if you're interested. It's small, and as survived cats, a 4yr old and several water spills lol.
and as survived cats, a 4yr old and several water spills lol.
Now that's an endorsement!
Brother printers are great. Probably the only decent printer brand for home usage. My university has free printing, and those are Canon printers. They seem to work fine, so I guess the commercial market is a little different.
Weirdly, my parents have this Samsung M2020W printer, and I gotta say, it's pretty neat. Takes any off-brand toner cartridge. They only need a cartridge every year or so. It's been 3+ years, but no problem so far. That might be an exceptional case, though.
Not all are created equal
Sharp also make great commerical-grade printers that are 100% Linux compatible, we're using these at work: http://global.sharp/products/copier/products/bp_70c65/index.html
They don't really make anything small enough to be a "home" model, this looks like their smallest printer: https://global.sharp/products/copier/products/mx_c358f/index.html (and that's around $1000, if you could even find someone to sell you one).
I inherited an Canon Pixma MG3600 from a friend who got a new printer of her own, and it's been impressively stable for years now.
A really solid printing experience on Linux; I'd say "plug and play" but I've got it set up for wireless printing and it worked immediately without plugging in!
I've not tried the scanner on Linux but it worked on Mac out of the box without proprietary drivers so I can imagine the same for Linux.
I mean, I'm pretty happy with mine! 10/10 would recommend!
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.
Also true for windows!
Brother printers are just that good.
I use Arch btw
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