HP is the worst

doesn’t help that printer ink is one of the most expensive liquids in the world and the whole business model of printer companies is based on selling overpriced ink, so much so that they sell printers at a loss and then try to block out third party cartridges

That’s why i just buy a new printer each time. Fuck them

The sad thing is that’s basically what they encourage. So wasteful. Because they want you on a subscription model.

That’s playing into the system. Buy a decent laser printer and be done.

This isn’t cheaper for the consumer

Sure it is. Replacing all the ink is the same price or more

Fuck my printer ink is like $20 for 3 of all 4 colors and the larger black cartridge it has. I love my Canon.

I tossed my Canon ink printer in the trash lol.

it started with low on cyan, so I did what it asked for and replaced the whole ink set, but then found out that the previous ink has dried on the ink tuner since I haven’t used the printer for ~6 months and didn’t feel like spending any more money on this shit.

So I got my myself a laser brother printer and it’s been kicking for over 6 years now

I have a Pixma mx922 and it just works for what I need. I recently replaced all the inks and they all looked empty and the printer said I had plenty left in everything but cyan. It’s dumb enough it’ll run out of ink if you let it. I love it.

But yeah if I needed a new one I’d go laser.

buy a Brother, or better yet a laser printer.

I’ll only buy Brother printers now. The print quality is pretty good and they just work on my Linux desktop.

Right on brother!.. Write on!

Even scanning over the network works on Linux on my Brother MFP. I really didn’t expect that.

I got an AIO unit and the scanner even works over the network.

How hard is it to refill ink cartridges for Brother printers?

It’s fairly easy (drill hole, inject ink with syringe, seal hole with soldering iron) but it’s pretty messy. It’s good to have a work area you can fuck up and latex gloves are a good idea. I don’t know how to reset the chips, but I keep a set of new full cartridges separate from the ones I refill and when the dialog shows up saying the printer is out of ink (even when the refilled cartridges are nearly full) I just pop in the new carts and print one page of something, then put the refilled carts back in and they’ll work for a few weeks until I have to do it again.

Well worth it financially - a set of new carts is $70 whereas $30 of raw ink + syringes will refill the carts like 10 times or so.

I can’t speak for all of them, but mine is pretty easy. Their ink cartridges are expensive too, but there’s really good third-party options on Amazon

I was in the market this year so shopping around laser color ones I noticed the reviews for even the Brother said it would brick your printer if you use 3rd party toners. So just look before you buy. I ended up buying their more expensive one because of that, but still not entirely sure its 3rd party compatible. Ill research whether thats the case when my toner needs replaced.

I have a brother laser printer. Best printer I’ve had so far. 3 years on the same toner cart; at my pace I’d have replaced the ink 2 or 3 times already.

Obligatory “buy a Brother B&W laser printer” comment

They’re actually more economical than modern HP printers because of their anti-consumer BS.

I got a used brother that had ever only printed one toner cartridges worth of prints, for 15€. It even has wifi, definitely one of the better buys I’ve made. I only need to print a handful of times a year so I anticipate it’ll last me for years and years.

My color brother laser is great. I needed color but either option is the better one

canon ones are decent too (if thry didn’t change them since i bought my iSensys MF3010, that thing still works great, except drivers. They work perfectly but are almost impossible to find on the canon website nowadays; works fine on linux too without drivers)

Obligatory “buy a bottle printer” comment.

They have to print the invisible printer identification dots somehow.

Printers print very small dots on the sheet of paper you print so it canbe identified. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

Those are yellow, the cyan is mixed with black

They can be both yellow or cyan, any of the low-saturation ink colors really.

My Brother monochromatic printing ~3000 pages per cartridge going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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