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Disregard inkjet printers
Acquire laser printer
Yup
I think the most under appreciated aspect is that ink can dry out just from sitting around. A lot of the time and “empty” ink cartridge just evaporated off its solvents
Toner lasts forever. Perfect for occasional use
Brother used to be the go-to but there was a post a week or so ago showing how they are starting to hold laser toner hostage.
I replaced my HP inkjet with a Brother laser a little over a year ago and seems to be going okay. Though I'm hesitant to let it update firmware.
Yeah I've been using an HP laser for a decade, get knockoff ink from some random website that probably steals my info, but whatever, who isn't stealing my info these days, it's got almost zero value at this point. Only issues are when it's just needs to be restarted to work sometimes and I have to walk down to the basement to do it. Need to put it on a smart plug so I can just do it from my phone. Then I need a trained monkey to bring me my prints.
Absolutely. I had multiple inkjet printer between 2000-2012, smearing, drying, expensive, etc. In 2012 I bought a laser colour wireless, (Samsung CPL-365W) this thing was fantastic, worked with windows, linux etc. Finally in 2024 the fuser died or something...
I quite like my ancient inkjet HP. Keeps printing with "empty" cartridge just fine, and the bottle of ink from AliExpress lasts a long time even if drenching paper with dark mode documents.
I paid 71 cents on sale for 500ml of ink, though it's otherwise around 20 bucks. Still worth it.
Now, there may just be one problem for most, it doesn't work with Windows anymore. HP website doesn't provide drivers saying they get automatically installed by Windows. Windows says it can't find drivers and to use manufacturer's website.
But it works with HPLIP on Linux.
Oh, and 1 more thing. There's a high DPI mode that can almost match laser in sharpness. But, it takes 20 minutes per page. Yes, not a typo.