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Brother b&w laser printer

2owners with an opinion
–of verdicts positive
0/0positive/negative since 2024
4 yrslongest happy owner
1happy after 3+ years

Praised for reliability and ease of use.

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I've had my fair share of printers over the years. They've always caused me significant rage and frustration (not necessarily in that order) Last 4 years, I've owned a brother b/w laser printer. I replaced the original cartridge with a long life cartridge after the original was depleted. It just works, it prints from my work pc, mobile phones, iPad, private computer, and even guests needing to print can connect and print. Previous frustration of low quality, special paper, engine failures etc. is nothing but a faint memory.
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During the pandemic I had a Canon all-in-one printer with ADF and bells and whistles that refused to let me use the scanner if one of the ink cartridges was empty, which happened all the time because the self-cleaning used a ton of ink and ran every time I wanted to use the ADF scanner, and while it did support pushing PDFs to a NAS via Samba, only a hopelessly insecure stone age version of Samba was actually implemented. The thing was an utter pos, it's crazy that it could be sold like that. I've since replaced it with a standalone Brother b&w laser printer and an HP ADF scanner and lo and behold both devices just work, I can scan and process my mail using scanline and python and print the occasional document and both devices take up less space than the Canon pos.