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In all fairness, my cheap Brother laser printer hasn’t let me down at all. Unlike the HP inkjets of the past.
I bought mine (HL2270-DW) 12 years ago for college. Last week I plugged it in after it sat for several years and printed off some stuff for family with 0 problems. I think it’s only on its second toner as well.
They last much longer in storage /without printing because toner is a powder, so it can’t dry out. The print head of an inkjet printer (part of the cartridge) will dry out if you don’t use it for a few weeks.
Still the exact same printer my family has been using for the past 10 years after our old Inkjet kicked the bucket a measly 3 months after it was born. And it has seen some stuff, including being dropped at least twice, plastic film in the paper compartment, coffee-stained (for aged effect) paper, and even a x-acto knife blade that somehow ended up in there.
Big Brother loves you. Really, those are the best printers right now.
my wife was having some problems finding the right W11 drivers for our Brother HL-2030 and dared to utter the thought of replacing it
I shut that down right quick
Windows Update should find the right driver. Failing that, a generic Postscript printer driver should work fine. Windows should have one.
Conversely, I have a recent-ish (<5yrs old) Brother inkjet printer that’s waiting to be dumped to recycling because it arbitrarily decided that it didn’t ever need to be discoverable or respond to any print requests one day, and so even though there was nothing mechanically wrong with it, even hooking up a Raspberry Pi to run CUPS over USB didn’t fix the issue – because Brother explicitly refuses to publish drivers for the Raspberry Pi, and their inkjet drivers are proprietary.
I’ve since replaced it with the best-reviewed Epson printer I could find that supports a generic PCL driver, so that if Epson ever loses their minds in the way Brother did, I can fall back on an open-source implementation of good ol’ PCL.
That thing’s given us no issues so far.
My experience has also been that laser printers work a lot more reliably.
Heck, even my 7 year old HP laserprinter is doing just fine, still
Granted, I print like 70 pages a year, but that’s still better than the inktjet before!
laser is especially nice if you don’t print often since you don’t have to worry about ink drying up
I don’t know why you’re getting down voted (or is it called something else on Lemmy?)
Is what you said not true? Maybe someone who would down vote can shine light on this?we have some angry people on here :)
Linux/Cups. Postscript. Laser. Have never had a problem. Printers not working is a “put the logic in the Windoze driver” problem vs telling a good printer “Print this”.
Gotta be a Brother
I will talk shit about a lot of printers, but I’ve had a Brother workhorse laser for years. It’s black and white. You tell it to print and it spits out pages. I don’t know if they still make them that way but they used to be amazing at the very least.
They do, absolute workhorses with no bullshit. Only printer I will ever pay money for.
😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?
And in the shot should be a 3.5mm plug laughing while holding money
i never had problem with bluetooth devices
Get a Brother. My simple black and white laser printer has very strong “ME PRINT FOR YOU. ME PRINT! ME PRINT ALL PAGE FOR YOU” energy. The only beef we have is when he is all “NO PRINT. FEED ME PAPER” and then when fed he goes back to printing no problem.
Can you share the model of the Brother printer you use?
This looks like an office jet pro 8720 which ironically is one of the printers I’ve had the least trouble with.
I’m running an Epson ecotank now though because the price per page is way better.
I can’t even remember the last time I used a printer
You must not work for a company that went paperless then
This hits hard :'(
Where programming?
Why do you think it doesn’t work?
(Besides the users)
Because boss put a windows xp netbook as a print server
My perception was that this sublemmy was about humoristic takes on programmers’ day to day, i.e. programming-related.
This is more IT-related, and the horse is dead and rotting.
fyi, lemmy doesen’t have sublemmies, but communities. that’s why the url is instance/c/community or yourinstance/c/community@instance
Yes indeed, we call them sublemmy because they’re mostly analogous to subreddits, but the official term is communities
Probably a “hey, you’re good with computers” so “you can fix the printer, right” thing too.
We know you can fix it, but don’t ever admit it!
It’d be nice if there were open source printers. Somehow we have a few for 3D printers but not 2D printers, and it is annoying as hell.
It’s because the printer heads are really hard to make, since the individual nozzles are so tiny.
An decent SLA 3d printer (which will be much more accurate than an FDM printer) can get down to feature sizes of 150 microns. A 300dpi paper printer is hitting about 85 microns, and that’s not even a particularly high resolution printer.
Source on SLA printer feature size: https://formlabs.com/blog/3d-printer-resolution-meaning/
Brother®, I know what you mean
In an omniverse of infinite dimensions and fundamental particles, there’d be no permutation of any that would permit whatever’s being represented in the comic to exist.
We could have Forerunner-level technology and the damn printers still wouldn’t work
The author of the book never had a Brother, it seems
