Deshittification

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State of affairs for technology seem bad? But what is being done to change it? And what could be done by you so it changes at least for yourself?

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Deshittified printers? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago by Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world to c/deshittification@thebrainbin.org

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The brother printer my spouse has had for ages is finally running out of ink and a quick chedk shows that they don't make cartridges for it anymore, you cant reset them, and you can only buy dubious 3rd party options on amazon for $150 each. For that kind of money id rathet find a printer that let's me put of the scam, but im not finding a lot of options there. Does anyone have advice?

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[–] Libb@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

like suggested already: go for laser B&W. I am on the Brother team: they're much cheaper and very reliable (I replaced mine ~2 years ago after 15+ years using the previous Brother). And it this new one can still work with third party toners.

When I need to print in colors, which is rare to be honest, I just go make those prints to a copy shop. It's much cheaper than having to purchase a printer and overpriced ink. And I don't have to worry about cleaning it either.