BTW, I’ve had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
I’m not even a linux user. Just here to learn. Windows is my daily driver for work and play…
Still all my printers are brother lasers.
My oldest is around 10 years old still running on the same toner… Picked out of the trash from an office move even.
My black and white Brother laser printer is 16 years old and still printing almost every day.
I’m kind of fond of my okidata c332dn. It’s my daily driver.
I have Brother multifunction printer. However, it’s run out of toner, and I don’t have the funds right now to purchase new cartridges.
I’ve had a brother laser printer for 8 years now. Recently my wife was asked “can we get a color printer” and I said but we have at least 5+ years of toner left in this thing!
If any representative from Brother is reading this, hear me.
DON’T ENSHITTIFY! You see this? You can own the market if you just LEAVE IT ALONE.
DON’T ENSHITTIFY!
They kind of already did, at least they did in the past.
They fought pretty hard to make you only use their toners, and they would warn you to change your toner cartridges way earlier than it was necessary to do so, disabling the printer if you didn’t. I remember having to put tape over the optical device in the printer that looks at the toner cartridge, just so I can keep using my toner cartridge.
Don’t get me wrong, I love my brother mfc7840w printer, but it’s so weird to hear so much praise for Brother, it’s like there is group amnesia about how they used to be on some of this stuff themselves.
Too late
Exactly. You can join the club of “Do Nothing and Win” club along with Gabe Newell
They already started. I think it’s too late
They have started chipping their toners, or so I’ve read. They’re still the least shitty printer manufacturer, AFAIK, though.
Let’s hope it’s just for quality of life and not to bully their customers…
I’m sure even internally their message is that they want to ensure the best customer experience while also protecting their revenue.
Now if ensuring the best customer experience HURT revenue, things get interesting. And by interesting I mean enshittified.
Unfortunately, I don’t think it is. I used to use knock-off toner, but after a firmware update, the printer would no longer recognize those cartridges. Luckily, I had bought them on Amazon, so I just explained the problem to customer service and got a full refund. I still love the printer though.
Bruh
Brother
I do love my brother:
R.I.P. to my real brother though. Forever 29 because heroin.
RIP to your brother as well, I have a forever 36 brother due to meth.
Glad we can bond over these printers though!
I have a forever 29 brother due to someone lacing shit with fentanyl. My brother printer will probably live longer
Brother laser printers are good for everyone, not just Linux users.
Helped my gfs mom troubleshoot her HP printer (I know, ew. She bought it before we met) and finally figured out from the stupid app that it was out of one color.
The app doesnt indicate this in words though, Oh no. Just a stupid infographic that doesnt say ANYTHING. Just shows a nondescript bar at the top.
Only reason I downloaded it was i thought it would be a bit more user friendly.
Long story short I recommended a brother laser printer because the last time I replaced a cartridge in it was a couple years back and that was after printing things for god knows how long. And mine is old af.
lol so true, however I have had a Samsung color laser wifi printer for 10+ years, worked flawlessly in linux. It was years before they got bought by HP
“oh, I might look into those”
finishes reading your comment
“fuck you for playing with my heart like that, I’ve been hurt before”
I have an Epson inkjet that I’m not going to throw away yet. It’s 6 years old though, not sure if they still make it.
My gripe with inkjets, expensive / DRM’d cartridges aside, is the ink just dries up or gets used in maintenance cycles whether you print or not.
Or is yours one of the tank models? I think those are less inefficient in that regard, right?
As far as I know, the tank models are just as bad. They need to flush the system, which they do onto a sponge which when saturated means the printer is broken.
HP: furiously taking notes
Mine is a cartridge model, an XP-830 “Small-in-One” that gets used…maybe once a year. As I said I’m not throwing it away yet. Further info: I bought a tablet computer specifically so that I wouldn’t have to print out my drawings for use in the wood shop, because I want to stop printing things entirely.
Ah, the star trek method
Brother printers have been a recommendation under Windows users for a long time too already. Not that they’re perfect either but pretty much everyone’s fed up with the bullshit of the likes of HP.
Weirdly I think I have one of the last half-decent HP all-in-one printers from about a decade and a half ago
It takes third party ink and still more or less works as it did when I got it.
I’ll probably get a brother the day it finally dies though
I’ve used tons of dot matrix, inkjets and lasers since the 80s. I’ve used them in MSDOS, ProDOS, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, OSX, and BeOS. I don’t know how many I’ve owned on I don’t know how many different OS versions but I know I’ve had exactly 1 printer that wasn’t constantly a problem and its a Brother laser printer.
Okidata Microline dot matrix printer has entered the chat
Wow, I think I had an Okidata modem at one point. I haven’t thought about that in a long time.
They’re fine until they get off track with the page perforations. And the ribbons last quite a while, but are technically a security risk
A “printer”? Oh right, those things we used to spray ink on dead trees back in the 20th century.
I’m with you, but unfortunately our world is still filled with old fucks who still see paper (and by extension, wet signatures) as some sort of ultimate authoritative source
Source: I’ve worked in the financial industry before (and never again)
Come to Germany, the only country in the EU where paper usage is still going UP.
The home of Kafka still pumping out the paperwork I see.
The home of Kafka being Prague in Czechia?
Won’t somebody please think of the poor dying deforestation companies?!?
Ours have plenty of politicians thinking about them. Don’t yours?
My (German) roomie’s father called us a while back to excitedly tell us that his doctor has digitalised. By digitalised he meant that the doctor will fax any prescription he issues to whatever chemist the patient requests.
Here in Sweden, I log on to 1177.se to refill my prescription, usually a nurse will call me with some general questions, then I can log on to any chemist’s website (both systems are tied to your national identity), and have the prescription delivered to my door the next day. I live in a small town of like 20k inhabitants too, so it’s not like it’s a big city only type thing.
We clearly have very perspectives on the term “digitalisation.”
the doctor will fax any prescription
It’s always the late 1900s in Germany!
This hits too close to home… I feel lucky my doctor accepts prescription requests per email.
Nowadays you can get your prescription into your insurance card… Finally. You still need to walk to the doctor’s office though. But it is digital.
Insurance card?
Is this some american joke i’m too european to understand?
In Germany, we have a health insurance card. Let’s say your insurer is Techniker Krankenkasse. They provide you a card with your photo and an NFC chip. You show this card in any doctor/hospital you visit, and your expenses are all paid. Today, as a new feature, your prescriptions are also stored to this card. You show the card in the pharmacy, get your medicine and the costs are all paid by the insurance company (minus the co-pay, 10 euros, which you pay by yourself).
Edit: To be clear, we don’t have public hospitals or doctors. They’re all private. But the insurance can be public, and the doctors and hospitals accept your public insurance and you don’t need to pay for them.
ooh ooh here in Australia we have “e-scripts”.
it’s just a UID. Any doctor or pharmacy or whatever can just look it up on the central database and dispense whether it’s been used and how many times et cetera.
Doctors love to print these as a QR-Code. I think there’s probably some therapeautic benefit to leaving your Drs office with a warm piece of paper entitling the bearer to some kind of magic beans.
When I read a very long RFC, I’d rather read it as an ink sprayed dead tree than a PDF.
Have you thought about e-ink readers? There are ones you can write/draw with, and since I got mine I completely skip paper!
I keep a lot of binders of them for reference. I just prefer having it in a binder with all my notes and bookmarks in it. But yeah, eink is so much more comfortable to read than an LCD.
You’d think, lol. I still find myself randomly needing to print randomly (and more often than I’d like).
Also true for windows!
Brother printers are just that good.
