Just saved a few printers from the recycling pile. One was a brother Ethernet connected BW laser, with auto duplexing. Currently set up at home, replacing my hp WiFi BW laser with manual duplexing.
I bought a brother color laser printer for 20€ used once. It came with almost full (clone) toner cartridges and already had 73k pages on its print counter.
Today it has over 80k pages on its print counter and the toner that came with it is still not empty.
I occasionally need to open it to remove a stuck piece of paper, and the print quality is not the greatest because it desperately needs a replacement drum, but I’ll keep running it until I am no longer able to repair it
I bought a Brother B/W laser printer with a USB-A connector about a decade ago. It ran through just over a full box (2500 sheets) of A4 paper on it’s preinstalled demo-toner before I needed to insert the full toner that came with it. The most work I ever had to do on it was when I tried to print on slightly-too-thick paper and it decided that it would rather make confetti instead. Spent an hour pulling out individual fibers of paper, and it never acted up again.
Black and white laser printers connected to a network cable have given me the least amount of pain.
Color inkjet connected via WiFi? Just the thought angers me.
Just saved a few printers from the recycling pile. One was a brother Ethernet connected BW laser, with auto duplexing. Currently set up at home, replacing my hp WiFi BW laser with manual duplexing.
I am pleased.
I bought a brother color laser printer for 20€ used once. It came with almost full (clone) toner cartridges and already had 73k pages on its print counter.
Today it has over 80k pages on its print counter and the toner that came with it is still not empty.
I occasionally need to open it to remove a stuck piece of paper, and the print quality is not the greatest because it desperately needs a replacement drum, but I’ll keep running it until I am no longer able to repair it
I bought a Brother B/W laser printer with a USB-A connector about a decade ago. It ran through just over a full box (2500 sheets) of A4 paper on it’s preinstalled demo-toner before I needed to insert the full toner that came with it. The most work I ever had to do on it was when I tried to print on slightly-too-thick paper and it decided that it would rather make confetti instead. Spent an hour pulling out individual fibers of paper, and it never acted up again.