You must log in or register to comment.
“Once upon a time, I bought a Brother color laser. It never failed to do its job. The End.”
I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren’t joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I’ve never had a printer just work like this. I didn’t even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.
Printer support on Linux is honestly better than Windows.
I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF’s business, it’s awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.
AND fun fact, there are no lasers in “laser printers” they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.
My browser just automatically detected it
Wait, what?
Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.
I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.
My HL2270DW has been working flawlessly for nearly 10 years now.
Connects to any PC/mac on my home network. Always prints correctly. Toners are dirt cheap
Is OP using a 1998 cannon printer or something?
My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.
I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.
In all fairness, my cheap Brother laser printer hasn’t let me down at all. Unlike the HP inkjets of the past.
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
Big Brother loves you. Really, those are the best printers right now.
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 :)
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.
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.
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.
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”.
My Brother laser printer/fax that looks like it came from the 90s is amazing and works with everything on default drivers. Mac, PC, Linux, Android, all of these work fine for me. The brother driver gives you more options if you care to install it, but you don’t have to.
Inkjet is a different beast. Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink, or that check for “legit” ink refills.
Especially the ones that don’t let you print B&W if you run out of colour ink,
They need the colour ink to print the tracking dots :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170607-why-printers-add-secret-tracking-dots
With how expensive colour ink is, that’s also stupid
Gotta be a Brother
I found a brother laser printer for 8 bucks at a thrift store and it printed with linux over USB as soon as I got it home without any tweaking.
I then directly networked it to a raspberry pi, configured it with cups and shared the printer over my network. Every device was able to discover it instantly and I can print from anything, android phone, ipad, mac, linux laptop, etc.
It’s absolutely freeing. I found an OEM toner cartridge for like 30 bucks, so I have like 2000 bw prints ready to go for like 40 dollars all in.
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.
It’s really disturbing just how relevant that movie still is today.
The longer I work in the tech industry, the more I empathize with it. All the warning signs were there but I ignored them 😭
indeed
😆Can someone make a similar one for bluetooth devices too, pretty please?
i never had problem with bluetooth devices
You must be amazingly lucky. Bluetooth has been nothing but issues for me for 15 years of use, across a plethora of host and client devices, OSes, mobile and desktop, all Bluetooth versions, proprietary implementations (game controllers), cheap devices, expensive devices, ranges, etc. Bluetooth has improved a lot in the past 5 years, but it’s still not good enough imo. A PS5 controller can’t stay reliably connected to my steam deck that is docked by my TV while I am sitting on my couch, yet an Xbox controller with a wifi-based USB dongle works fine.
wow, maybe i never used bluetooth to much because i never run into that issues, to be fair of the ps5 the driver is still immature(and community made, so it’s more slow to be implemented) and the steam deck need to update the kernel for the drivers fixes
