I had the epiphany that I never print in color. Only B&W.
So I bought a monochrome laser printer. Less than a hundred bucks and I’m still going on the original ink cartridge after three years.
Oh yeah, and it’s tiny.
We had these massive and expensive color laser printers at the fire department that I worked at. They were incredibly wasteful machines. We didn’t really print that much and we were replacing those $100 toner cartridges all of the time. The output was not that impressive, but it was nearly waterproof.
We do a lot of color printing, continuous ink flow systems were the most convenient for us when we were doing a lot of printing and the ink was a lot cheaper than toner. But I will admit that a little monochrome laser does sound very tempting.
When I was young my dad had a big copier that we could just pour more toner in. It needed other types of maintenance, and that toner was very messy but it sure was nice not to deal with expensive cartridges.
I print almost nothing and my Brother BW laser printer / scanner does well. It’s several years old.
My wife has a Brother 9340 color MFP and it has stood up to a ton of printing.
I despise printers to no end.
Same here, black and white only and laserjet only!!!
“I had the epiphany that I never print in color.”
My epiphany too. Plus we have a color printer at work.
“So I bought a monochrome laser printer. Less than a hundred bucks”
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There yuh go - might be a good way for me to go in the future since I’ve never really needed to print in color.
I have an old HP 3015 Laser AIO that is only B&W. We have a newer HP AIO that is a color laser, and its been a problem from time to time. The old 3015 no longer does any AIO functions except printing and copying. That’s the other bitch I have with all peripherals, they do, over time, stop getting S/W support so you loose functionality. When the HP no longer worked as a scanner, I bought a Canon Flat bed scanner. Now, Canon no longer supports it into the Mac 64 bit migration, so I had to buy a S/W package from a third-party provider to keep the relatively new scanner in business. As far as the mfrs. pulling this firmware nonsense that keeps your printer from running with consumables from non-OEM suppliers, should be the subject of a restraint of trade lawsuit.