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Laser printer recommendations (midwest.social)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sxan@midwest.social to c/buyitforlife@slrpnk.net
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Recommendations for a color, full duplex, laser printer?

Another printer company (Brother) has fallen to the allure of "remote disable" if they object to you using your own device in a way they don't like: trying to self-service, use third party inks, whatever. It's at their discretion. Given printers are the sorts of devices to which you tend to want to have network access, preventing this is a lot of work.

I've been looking at color duplex laser printers, and Brother has been at the top of the list, until they recently announcement that they'd disable printers using third party inks.

BIFL to me implies that the company isn't going to actively sabotage self-service, or restrict your usage of the thing, so I think this is an appropriate question for this c/.

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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Keep in mind that the "primary source" for the entire Brother printer thing is a single unverified 3 year old Reddit post.

I have a Brother MFC L8900CDW (color laser) on the latest firmware, and just tested some 3rd party toner. It worked without complaint.

As a bonus, printing and scanning both also worked flawlessly in Linux, right out of the box, without any special drivers or futzing, if you care about such things.

[-] sxan@midwest.social 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, I do care. Thanks for the clarification.

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