• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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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.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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      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

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        Windows Update should find the right driver. Failing that, a generic Postscript printer driver should work fine. Windows should have one.

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      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.

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        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!

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    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”.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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    We could have Forerunner-level technology and the damn printers still wouldn’t work