They’re spendy but you can get color laser printers as well. But yes, I love my brother laser printer.
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yote_zip@pawb.social 1 year ago
Laser printers are great also if you just need black.
ChihuahuaOfDoom@lemmy.world 1 year ago
HenloHowl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I splurged a little while back on a Brother HLL3290CDW. A bit spender than a monochrome laser, but the image quality is fine and it lets my wife print off as many stickers as she wants without having to spend big bucks on ink every couple of weeks.
nieceandtows@programming.dev 1 year ago
I bought a canon color laser printer two years ago with the starter toners. After about 6 months or so, warning came that one of the colors is empty. It was still printing fine so I continued printing. One by one, warning came for all colors, so I bought a 3rd party toner set, but still didn’t replace them because they were still printing fine. 2 years later, I’m still getting warnings that all colors are empty, but just the other day, I printed color pictures of all the 700 Pokémon for my daughter. They’re still going good. I don’t know if they’ll ever actually run dry, or if I should preemptively replace the toners.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Never open it, you’ve stumbled upon an infinite duplicate bug. Don’t tell the admins
Loulou@lemmy.mindoki.com 1 year ago
My HP color laser (178?) acts the same, with the added “extra low” that you have to allow to accept in some shady parameter in the config or it won’t print.
fkn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I have a brother laser, cost me 80bucks. Had to replace my toner once, after about 4000 pages. Cost me 34 bucks to get a new toner. Another 2000 pages in. It just doesn’t stop. Unplug it. Leave it unplugged for a month or two. Plug it in, wait a couple minutes, wireless print 50 pages with no driver installs. Unplug.
TornadoRex@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pretty much the same story. Got pissed at an inkjet one night when my wife needed to print something for school. Still going strong 1 toner replacement later.
Lev_Astov@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Seriously; I feel like I learned the inkjet-cartridges-are-a-scam lesson when I was a kid and have been all about laser printers ever since. I don’t understand how anyone is still falling for that.
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
I bought an HP laser printer in 2016 or thereabouts. I only just had to replace the “starter” toner cartridge on it a couple months ago (despite it warning me it was low on toner probably 3 years ago).