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Yeah, I tell everyone to just buy a brother laser and leave it at that. They may cost a little bit more up front and they don't do photos (who really prints photos at home anyway). But they just work.. Which is saying a LOT for printers.. God I hate printers.

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From the post: "Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man"

Yeah, I tell everyone to just buy a brother laser and leave it at that. They may cost a little bit more up front and they don't do photos (who really prints photos at home anyway). But they just work.. Which is saying a LOT for printers.. God I hate printers. Archive (HN): https://archive.today/Edd2N Archive (linked post): https://archive.today/VuS4V Source of post: https://retro.social/@ifixcoinops/111480744130939877 From the post: "Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going "Just get a Brother, they're fine" and man"

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[–] • 1 pt

First off, fuck HP. Those fuckers build the most shitty products, and they design their printers to be an absolute scam.

As for bother, I'm sure they do R&D and look for ways to make products better, but they likely also understand the idiom "If it's not broke, don't fix it."

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I have a MFC from at least ~7 years ago. It has only needed minor cleaning for the scanning bed and toner when I run out. I don't use it as much as some people do but it also works amazingly well on wireless... Which I have had a lot of problems with printers on wireless in the past. None with this one.. Oh and it auto-installs on all major OS's (Win, Mac, Linux) without issue.

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I don't know off hand what model I have, but I've had it for 8 years now. I rarely print anything, but when I do click the print button or try to scan something.. it just works. It has yet to fail me once, and it never bothers me about needing updates or some bs.

The son of a bitch is just bullet proof for all I know..