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A brother laser printer is the best investment you can make in printers. Shit just works and you don't have to worry about the printer using half the ink to keep the nozzles clear like an ink jet.
Laser printers in general are much better. Hell, my parents have an HP laser printer, and even that works pretty well even after 7 years. (Although it's used maybe 3-4 times a year.)
Also, IIRC there were some concerns with some new policy that Brother introduced. But I couldn't find anything after a quick search, so maybe I'm hallucinating?
Unless you want to print photos. Color laser printers are stupid expensive and still only suitable for documents, photos printed with color laser look like absolute garbage.
But the majority of users mostly prints documents, so just get a laser printer and go to a copy shop or order prints online when you occasionally need to print a photo
This is probably what you're looking for:
https://consumerrights.wiki/Brother_printers_causing_issues_with_third_party_inks
That entire story is based on one 3 year old unverified Reddit post. I have that printer on the latest firmware and it accepts 3rd party toner just fine.
Old brothers were great, new brothers are garage.