Visited my parents a while ago who got a new Brother ethernet printer. It was available immediately from the printers menu on my Linux laptop, no installation needed or anything
My next personal printer will probably be a Brother too
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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That is a 3D printer no? Technically a printer :)
Voron 2.4R2 is a great printer. All open source and fully programmable.
Looking for printing on paper but thanks for the 3d recommendation
Omg! I didn’t even think of that! Lmao. Anyways. boron are great for 3D.
A little off topic from your DRM/open source query, but since so many people are praising brother, in my opinion they are ruining their printers due to the jacked up toner cost. It's not even just brother. Basically all the greedy printer manufacturers have all but ruined affordable laser printing. Years ago you could buy a brother printer for a reasonable cost that used toner that cost about a penny per page to print. They shrank the toner cartridges but didn't reduce the cost so it's not uncommon to speed a few cents a page on toner these days. Compare that with the current ink tank options and you'll find the cost is way lower at around $.002 per page. The biggest trade off in my opinion is that you have to print to them regularly or they clog up and they are slower, but they are definitely a better value.
TL DR: greedy printer manufacturers ruined laser printers. Buy an ink tank printer instead until they ruin inkjets again.
You can buy third party toners for brother (if it comes without a chip, you just need to move it from the original toner.
Was talking with my coworker about this the other day and we have both been very impressed with the Kyocera ECOSYS printers one of our customers has been buying.
Brother MFC-J4440DW Colour Laser, scanner (and fax lol!) $299AUD and the toner cartridges are $39 each (x4) so ~$160 for enough toner for approximately 3000 pages. The printer already comes with toner.
If you don't need more that 20 pages a minute, or higher than 1200x4800 dpi prints, then its hard to beat this!
I think you mean inkjet and not colour laser?
https://www.brother.com.au/en/products/all-printers/printers/mfc-j4440dw
oh yes inkjet. I was reading so many comments, I had laser on the brain!
Was thinking no way color laser printer gonna be that cheap