What’s the best printer in terms of no DRM/Open source

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Voron 2.4R2 is a great printer

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  • gonzoknowsdotcom1@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Looking for printing on paper but thanks for the 3d recommendation

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    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Omg! I didn’t even think of that! Lmao. Anyways. boron are great for 3D.

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• dan@lemmy.fdr8.us ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A little off topic from your DRM/open source query, but since so many people are praising brother, in my opinion they are ruining their printers due to the jacked up toner cost. It’s not even just brother. Basically all the greedy printer manufacturers have all but ruined affordable laser printing. Years ago you could buy a brother printer for a reasonable cost that used toner that cost about a penny per page to print. They shrank the toner cartridges but didn’t reduce the cost so it’s not uncommon to speed a few cents a page on toner these days. Compare that with the current ink tank options and you’ll find the cost is way lower at around $.002 per page. The biggest trade off in my opinion is that you have to print to them regularly or they clog up and they are slower, but they are definitely a better value.

  TL DR: greedy printer manufacturers ruined laser printers. Buy an ink tank printer instead until they ruin inkjets again.

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  • mint_tamas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can buy third party toners for brother (if it comes without a chip, you just need to move it from the original toner.

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• hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Good question.

  last time I saw this on Riddit someone said basically any 90s model resell, or LaserJets if it should be modern.

  In terms of open source / no DRM tho, no clue. Maybe they just don’t exist or you almost have to build them from scratch?

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• AgentCodyBanks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Was talking with my coworker about this the other day and we have both been very impressed with the Kyocera ECOSYS printers one of our customers has been buying.

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• BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Brother MFC-J4440DW Colour Laser, scanner (and fax lol!) $299AUD and the toner cartridges are $39 each (x4) so ~$160 for enough toner for approximately 3000 pages. The printer already comes with toner.

  If you don’t need more that 20 pages a minute, or higher than 1200x4800 dpi prints, then its hard to beat this!

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  • entropicwanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think you mean inkjet and not colour laser?

    www.brother.com.au/en/products/…/mfc-j4440dw

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    • BrownianMotion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      oh yes inkjet. I was reading so many comments, I had laser on the brain!

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    • Mrduckrocks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Was thinking no way color laser printer gonna be that cheap

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