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Brother is the other secret, though it seem like maybe even they have turned... the problem with making a solid piece of equipment that will last for a decade is you consume your customer base and can't show 'growth' constantly.

My Brother color laser (model 3170, bought in 2016) doesn't print the perfect photos, but that's not what I use it for. I print coloring sheets and camp forms for my kiddos and random forms for adult life. It ran on the original toner carts for around 5 years, with black being replaced first on its own. There's no inkjet in the world that will have 5 year-old carts work, but laser toner doesn't dry out.

The problems with society can really be highlighted with how printers are marketed. Cheaper to buy a new printer than replace the ink cartridges on an existing printer.

We are literally built to encourage waste.

(People keep saying audio is a nightmare to set up in Linux. Ohh you clearly haven’t tried to set up a printer or you would not be complaining)

My single worst experience with Linux was getting audio to work with an ISA Plug 'n' Play Sound Blaster card back in the late 90s. Eventually I got it to work, but after installing the card I had to dig through documentation and forums to figure out that in addition to audio drivers I needed to install a package for ISA PnP cards, run a tool that came with that to generate a config file, realize that config file contained every hypothetical configuration my card could potentially have all commented out, find and uncomment the actual configuration I wanted the card to use and then restart the isapnp driver. All of that to get basic functionality. For Windows, I literally just installed the card and it worked with basic functionality out of the box, with an option to go to their website and download a driver for some extra functionality specific to that card.

That...soured me on the idea of desktop Linux for several years.

Linux is fine for printers. As long as you don't want to print more than one copy. But even then you just start multiple print jobs. Unless you need a lot of copies. Then Windows or Mac is probably easier.

Was gunna say, I have 3.

Brother b/w Laser Printer - Most things

Epson Ecotank - Color prints (usually stickers/heat transfer vinyl + cutting machine below printer)

Canon PIXMA large format - Got this one for free, I use it to print 18*24 (usually knock off posters for photography sets, or cus I HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE MY OWN BOOTLEG POSTERS FEAR ME)