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John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have a brother color laser from 2013 that's still printing awesome. toner cartridges are $200 for all 4 colors, but I only replaced them in 2015, 2019, and at the beginning of this summer - getting a few thousand pages out of each, conservatively. it's not a glossy photoprinter, but if you just need high res document prints, I cannot recommend it enough. wifi, cat5, driver is built in to windows 10/11, works fine with android and linux too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I run a multifunction colour Brother as well. I've used it with Brother and various other brands of toner without issues. It will keep printing even if a cartridge is empty. Finding consumables is easy. It runs great from Linux (duplex scans and prints), Windows and mobiles through the LAN. It's a great machine. You can even override the "low toner" alarm and basically double the life of your cartridges (maybe shake them a bit beforehand). You just swap them out when the quality visibly degrades. I think I bought it for about 400€, it was well worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

yup. I never thought I'd feel evangelistic about a brand of printers but holy hell did everyone else race to the bottom of the shit barrel in this entire category. so here we are, praise brother lol, they're COMPETENT.