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The Dreams of Printers (infosec.pub)
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[–] hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Just saved a few printers from the recycling pile. One was a brother Ethernet connected BW laser, with auto duplexing. Currently set up at home, replacing my hp WiFi BW laser with manual duplexing.

I am pleased.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I bought a brother color laser printer for 20€ used once. It came with almost full (clone) toner cartridges and already had 73k pages on its print counter.

Today it has over 80k pages on its print counter and the toner that came with it is still not empty.

I occasionally need to open it to remove a stuck piece of paper, and the print quality is not the greatest because it desperately needs a replacement drum, but I'll keep running it until I am no longer able to repair it