I threw my Canon multifunction in the dumpster the day it didn’t want to scan because it was out of yellow ink… I’ve been in the Brotherhood ever since.
According to my notes, the only dirt I found on #Brother printers was yellow tracking dots. You can likely avoid the #trackingDots by getting a non-color Brother, but then you’re still feeding a company that was caught doing that. So IMO Oki is the best option. But note that Oki is not sold in the US anymore.
Word on the street is Brother is the brand to go to. Anything laser, avoid inkjet. I can’t wait to replace my cheap HP. I have to reinstall it every time I want to use it. It works better as a shelf.
Brother is the only viable consumer laser that’s comes to mind for me when making recommendations but as a helpdesk admin, they can be a nightmare at times… I suppose they’re all printers at the end of the day
Epson are the name in the game for high quality sample printing.
To the point where many people literally call printed samples ‘Epsons’.
A printed sample being a one off print of something that will be industrially printed at scale on a larger printing press. It is used to have a ‘colour master’ to check the print run to, so you can identify colour shifts that can happen over the course of thousands to hundreds of thousands to even millions of sheets.
LPT: Never buy HP printers unless you like lighting money and sanity on fire.
I have a 25 year old HP LaserJet. Great printer.
Don’t buy a new one, though. You’re right about money fires there.
Same, my 90s HP is a damn tank and it accepts knockoff toner carts.
Time to resurrect my old LasertJet 6P
Or Canon printers. Or any inkjets for that matter
I threw my Canon multifunction in the dumpster the day it didn’t want to scan because it was out of yellow ink… I’ve been in the Brotherhood ever since.
Straight to the dumpster.
Is there any manufacture of home printers/copiers you would recommend?
This article strongly argues for a brother printer.
According to my notes, the only dirt I found on #Brother printers was yellow tracking dots. You can likely avoid the #trackingDots by getting a non-color Brother, but then you’re still feeding a company that was caught doing that. So IMO Oki is the best option. But note that Oki is not sold in the US anymore.
/cc @fossilesque @MetaCubed
Word on the street is Brother is the brand to go to. Anything laser, avoid inkjet. I can’t wait to replace my cheap HP. I have to reinstall it every time I want to use it. It works better as a shelf.
Brother is the only viable consumer laser that’s comes to mind for me when making recommendations but as a helpdesk admin, they can be a nightmare at times… I suppose they’re all printers at the end of the day
People seem to love Brother printers. I have an Epson Ecotank that seems to be pretty good so far.
Epson are the name in the game for high quality sample printing. To the point where many people literally call printed samples ‘Epsons’.
A printed sample being a one off print of something that will be industrially printed at scale on a larger printing press. It is used to have a ‘colour master’ to check the print run to, so you can identify colour shifts that can happen over the course of thousands to hundreds of thousands to even millions of sheets.
HP printers may be cheap but damn the ink is expensive and they try to detect third-party ink and refuse to work
They act like smack dealers lol.
especially when you have to start resorting to using syringes to top them up