Bought a laser printer

Wifi died on mine, so no malware updates for me woohoo!

Brother is the way to go. They just work.

Careful, they used to, older models are still primo, but don't get a new one, company decided they would go full ink monopoly, anti repair and everything
- https://consumerrights.wiki/Brother_ink_lockout_%26_quality_sabotage
  Mixed messages coming from this write up.
- Yeah printer at work suddenly decided it would not work unless there was oem brother cartridge in it. It was printing fine with third party ink the day before.
  I recommended Brother to everyone and now BAM ! No more good company out there.
- Oh no, just got one similar to OP’s but the MFC series with extra copy/scan features after a great experience with the old equivalent Brother model I had for about 20 years with near zero problems!
  I realized the new model was surprisingly cheap and with features I always wanted on the old one (which was now starting to show its age in a few ways), so I made the upgrade. Hope I won’t regret it.
- Oh, brother
Hell yeah Brother!

Should've bought a measuring tape first lmao.

Get sticker paper, now anything you want is a sticker.

lol. The wife has a cricut. The reason I’m just now getting a laser printer is because we needed an inkjet so she could make her custom stickers.
- Weird, I bought the sticker paper years before I got my laser printer because it said it was for ink jet. The ink jet stickers always smudged or ran. Once I got a laser printer, I tried printing a sticker and it worked great. No smudging or running.

Protip - if it's a networked printer, fuck with it's DNS/IP gateway settings or block it at your firewall. Brother was accused of pushing firmware that locks out 3rd party cartridges .

My network gateway is actually 10.0.0.1 but I configured the printer's gateway for 10.0.0.254 - that way any attempts to leave the 10.0.0.0/24 network will fail.

My laser printer also doesn’t fit on my shelves haha. I feel like we are slightly tweaked dimensional variants of each other.

It wouldn’t be so bad if the power cord didn’t stick straight out the back
- They make 90° power cables.
I've got the same one. Brother printer brothers 🤙
Mine live inside a cupboard next to the desk with a hole drilled in the back of the cupboard for cables. Stays neatly tucked away.
That, or you both got your shelves from Ikea, in a flash of household genius

My brother laser printer was literally a barn find, still works great.

Found Lexmark 3426adw in a warehouse of a company that sells used hotel stuff. It has a defect where it would bend a piece of paper ever so slightly across whole page hence the price of 30 euro. Still prints perfect. It has been a year since this find and I am still hyped of buying it.

In the past 15 years I've had two brother laser printers. I gave the first one sway because my wife needed a scanner so we bought a combo unit. That old one is still going strong at a friend's house.

My wife got that exact printer free through work. She was very confused about my excitement

My Brother in Brother. Welcome. You purchased the dullest printer. It is glorious

Now you're making me think of my Samsung laser printer. That was good machine.

I bought a Brother multifunction printer. It's ace! It just works, even scanning just works. It can even scan directly to email, and print from email.

I had so many problems with my last printer. I was very surprised when the new Brother printer worked out of the box with Linux. I even got it to scan to NAS with minimal effort.

F'n Legend!

Is it a brand new Brother printer? Or a second hand one?

I swore by Brother printers for years. They were far and away above other brands. But I heard somewhere that their new models over the last few years have been going down the same enshitification route of other brands. Locking down features, forcing users to change cartridges prematurely, etc.

Depends on whether it’s a consumer-level product or one marketed to big business. This goes for other brands, as well. For example, I have a color HP laser printer that I love. It’s a whole different type of product than their absolute crap consumer inkjet products.
- There's still fuckery afoot in HP's lineup. You really need to find the sweet spot of a unit that's old enough to predate their BS with non-HP toner, but new enough that consumables and parts are still readily available.
  I rescued from e-waste a CP5225dn (2012 model, though mine was manufactured in 2017); an A3 colour printer with network (10/100, baby) and automatic duplex. It's not blazingly fast, but it has enough features, consumables are still readily available, and the print quality is honestly quite respectable.
  As for firmware updates? Well there hasn't been one of those since 2015. Pretty sure they're not about to start releasing new versions now :)
I come into contact with a lot of residential printers. By no means an expert.
Brother ones like this are fucking tanks. They still try and push the subscription ink on you but it's no where near as forced as HP. Good on mobile and PC.
love the consistency of brother. Those old hps are incredible though.
I need to try cannon. Know a lady who has one with no issues no frills but unsure of their current monetization practices
- I haven’t purchased a new canon in years because my current TS5020 has been a workhorse for years… and I can buy a box with 5 complete sets of 3rd party ink carts (C,M,Y,K & BK) for $15 on Amazon… and they just work.
  I’ve heard rumblings that they’re no longer as good, but as long as this continues to work well I’ll keep it. The current printer landscape is a mine field.
For what it's worth, I bought 2 brother printers the past 2 years, and they're still working fine without any of those issues. Not trying to shill for them, just my experience so far 🤷
- Well that's good to hear! The prospect of them following HP and Epsom down that road made me sad.

USB "B" only

Brøther, may I print some?

That right there is the Rolls-Royce of printers!!!!

Go get an exhaust filter to have less contamination in the room.

I have to check if this is a dodgy printer. Any opinions from anybody I'd like to hear.

Don't know about the printer but that pile of paper next to it is covered with creepy crawlies.
- Any opinions about the printer*****

Make sure it's in a less-trafficked area. Laser printers emit clouds of microscopic toner particles when they're printing. It's as bad for your lungs as secondhand smoke.

I'm still on a Laserjet 4P. I'll probably cry the day it dies.

That yellow lidded crate fits perfectly in your shelf. That is so satisfying.

I just recently setup my Brother printer with Guix Linux. I was able to use brlaser from the guix channel.

https://packages.guix.gnu.org/packages/brlaser

Lol, I just made a meme the other day on this from a parents perspective

Welcome to the club! Have fun printing the night away lol

For anyone looking to replace a printer I'm still on my first set of ink 7 years in on an Epson Eco tank.

I will never, ever, ever own an inkjet again. Once was enough.
+1 for the EcoTank, it's hard to be fussy about third party ink when you just feed it fluid. Ours doesn't like double sided glossy paper but otherwise no complaints.

Just did that today too!

Hell yeah Brother!