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Love my Brother black and white laser printer.
It is important to point out that it isn't the brand that makes it good, it is the fact that it is laser.
I used to have a Brother "multi function center" printer/scanner/photocopier/fax that used inkjet and it was pure asshole design. Wasting expensive ink just by remaining plugged in and refusing to do anything if one cartridge was low on ink (but was actually still half full)
But if I had to single out a brand that should absolutely be avoided for printers it is HP. They do asshole DRM to a whole new level. They bricked a brand new ink cartridge because I didn't put it in properly at first.
Now I have a laser printer and the nightmare is finally over.
Nah. Brother inkjets were the inky ones that didn't require chips on the inktanks. Don't know how it is nowadays but they were the only company that didn't make everything shitty.
We now have a brother color laser and it's a godsend.
My Brother inkjet printer didn't have electronic DRM on their cartridges, but it would still waste a ton of ink through periodic "cleaning cycles" (in which it dumps a bunch of ink into a sponge hidden inside the printer) and would declare a half-full cartridge "empty" unless you put electrical tape on the sensor window. Even if I didn't print anything it would run out of ink every few months. If you unplugged the printer to avoid those cleaning cycles it would eventually clog up. I agree that other companies like HP make it extra shitty with stupid DRM chips on their cartridges. But even without that, inkjet is just a bad technology.
Now I have a Lexmark laser printer and I've printed through a whole stack of paper in the over 8 years I've had it and it's still running the original toner cartridge. No cleaning cycles, no clogging and if I haven't used it in months I know the toner level will have remained completely unchanged when I eventually use it again. And when it finally runs out I know there are 3rd party toner cartridges available for it because no DRM.