I got a huge office printing center thing from government liquidation out of my nearby military base for $55. It came with more toner than I could ever use in my lifetime.
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guacupado@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Get a Brother laserjet.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 8 months ago
PurpleTentacle@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Also evil now. Latest firmware (~2020) outright blocks third party cartridges or, even more evil, accepts them and then secretly and intentionally, prints like crap:
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31860131
Everything until ~2019 is awesome, though. Just disable firmware updates.
forgetful_fox@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I was highly considering a Brother, now I definitely will get one.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Epson Eco Tank is the cheapest best printer I’ve ever had.
LoftySnowman@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Do you use a model with pigment inks or dye inks? I currently use a pigment based hp inkjet. I thought about switching to ecotank but the pigment refills are comparable to hp pigment cost. I assume the ecotank would get a higher page count from the same cost of ink? The pigment based ecotank models I shopped around were quite a bit more expensive than the entry level dye based models.
teamevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I use the cheap Eko tank that doesn’t auto feed…wish I had done the auto feed. It just takes a 15 dollar bottle of ink for each color. In 4 years I’ve used one black bottle and 1/2 the colors.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’ve had two in the span of about 16 years. Only reason I got a new one was because I couldn’t find decent drivers for it for Windows 8. Considering with HP and Epson inkjets they wouldn’t even last 2 years, 8+ years is a good deal. Brother printers are excellent.
Alchemy@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Mines been good. Light to medium duty use.