I have an Epson ecotank… you pay upfront for the printer and on the flipside the ink is about $15AUD per bottle…but that will get you 5000 sheets.
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NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Anyone have printer brand recommendations?
I have a Brother and like it but, is that he only decent option?
ji88aja88a@lemmy.world 8 months ago
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
I have also one of those… But since it’s standing for couple weeks or a month between each printing session, I always got to start with cleaning nozzle and flushing the ink or the print quality goes shit. Kinda annoying since wife has a habit of “just gonna print this important paper 5min before leaving house”
Also I haven’t managed to get it working on Linux
NateNate60@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I have an Epson EcoTank printer. It’s a colour inkjet printer but it came with these ginormous bottles of ink that you pour into a tank. I’ve printed thousands of pages for three years and I still have around a quarter of the included ink left.
I didn’t need to install any drivers on Linux or Windows, just adding the printer was enough. It connects to your WiFi network and works as expected. My only complaint is that after not using it for a few weeks, you’ll need to run the “clean print head” utility on the printer and might need to realign the print heads. But other than that, it’s great. Photo quality is pretty meh though.
Kerrangutan@lemmy.one 8 months ago
I have two EcoTank printers, one is set up with normal ink and the other one gets used by my partner for sublimation printing for her crafting projects, they’re absolutely the next best thing to a laser printer.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Just got my second Brother, the only way I’d switch to a different brand is if they also turn to shit.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I only bought a second Brother printer because after a decade+ I decided I wanted color printing and a scanner. Zero problems since 2009.
bus_factor@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, our second one was to get color printing as well.
Cobrachicken@lemmy.world 8 months ago
yes
simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Samsung’s line of laser printers are great. They just work and don’t impose any bizarre restrictions. I’ve had mine for at least 5 years now, but it obviously doesn’t do colored pages if those are important to you.
Lupara@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
HP bouth Samsung’s printer division some years ago.
simple@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Oh. I wasn’t aware… Buy an older model then I guess.
RobotToaster@mander.xyz 8 months ago
It happened in 2017, so the timeline tracks.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That makes sense. My Samsung laser gets less supported every os update and it’s fucking ridiculous. I thought less of Samsung until I read that and then it was like, “Ooooohhhhhhh . . . !”
Mossheart@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Samsungs printer biz got bought by HP IIRC. I have a 3405w and drivers are only from HP now
snooggums@kbin.social 8 months ago
Same, have 3 Samsung b/w printers between me and family and they have all been extremely reliable for years whether they are used regularly or not. Plus the ink isn't expensive.
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
I have an rosin that’s not the worst, but I can’t recommend it.
I hear good things about Brother from these other people
Kata1yst@kbin.social 8 months ago
Brother Laser here. Never fucking going back.
phx@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Also in brother laser club. It won’t quit
Kata1yst@kbin.social 8 months ago
I just love how my printer has become an appliance. Like, I shit, I need to print something. I just press print. No print head cleaning, no alignment, no driver download and crapware games, no color cartridge wack-a-mole to print black and white. It just... Prints. Every time.
It's become as exciting as using my toaster, and I love it for that.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Same with mine. I only use it a few times a year, but when I need it I can just use it. If it ever actually runs out of toner I can just fill the cartridge.