• Nomecks@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    Sorry, the printer of the year is still the 2008 HP 4730mfp. Still going strong 16 years later!

  • simon574@feddit.de
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    3 months ago

    I can print at my workplace, and there is a library 5 minutes walking distance from my apartment. These huge commercial printing machines are so much better than anything you can buy for your home, and I don’t have to maintain them. I’m very grateful I don’t have to own a printer.

  • Gointhefridge@lemm.ee
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    3 months ago

    Maybe I’m in the minority, but I like my EcoTank. I got it cause we print a decent amount of pictures and laser can’t do even passing quality photos. Having no cartridges to worry about is much less of a hassle than it used to be.

    That said, laser is fine for most people.

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      3 months ago

      Epson Ecotank is definitely the least bad option of the non laser printers. Mine still clogs more than I like but it’s the first inkjet I’ve been able to live with. And that’s including the canon ink tank which clogged weekly.

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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      3 months ago

      What makes you say Brother printers are bad? I’ve had no complaints with them at all.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        Maybe “bad” is the wrong term. But every printer - Brother included - has its own little set of firmware to maintain and special connection protocols to support. The interface between OS and printers, generally speaking, sucks. Wifi connections are unreliable. Its very easy to get into contention with multiple devices. And that’s for a simple little household printer.

        Talk to my IT staff about how much of a pain in the ass commercial printers are. More machines, each machine has to connect to multiple printers, and the software to handle these cases generally sucks. Brother’s are the least-bad, but they’re still annoying to configure and periodically unreliable to access.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I like that the AI generated “cons” of the brother printer are just gripes about laser printers in general.