I bought a brother color laser printer during lockdown, 4 years and it’s never had an issue, and I have yet to change the cartridges. I’ll never go back to inkjet.
Yeah, if you don’t print enough to justify a laser printer then you probably don’t need a printer at all. Just go to the library when you want to print something.
HP printers are shit, I don’t want one even if you pay me. Buy a office-class B&W laser from Brother and never worry again.
I bought a brother color laser printer during lockdown, 4 years and it’s never had an issue, and I have yet to change the cartridges. I’ll never go back to inkjet.
Yeah, if you don’t print enough to justify a laser printer then you probably don’t need a printer at all. Just go to the library when you want to print something.
Only suckers buy inkjets.
I have a Brother laser printer that I got 25 years ago that I use so little it’s still on the promo cartridge and it works fine any time I need it.
Meanwhile, an ink jet my old job got a few years ago fatally clogged itself after just a few weeks of normal use.
Sadly Brother went to the dark side this year:
https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/printers/brother-accused-of-locking-down-third-party-printer-ink-cartridges-via-firmware-updates-removing-older-firmware-versions-from-support-portals
Even when blocking third party cartridges, they are still infinitely better than all the bullshit HP is pulling.
That story was debunked: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/brother-denies-using-firmware-updates-to-brick-printers-with-third-party-ink/