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The Printer That Simply Worked (media.mas.to)

submitted 10 months ago by yogthos@lemmy.ml to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 61 points 10 months ago (5 children)

“Once upon a time, I bought a Brother color laser. It never failed to do its job. The End.”

[–] opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I just bought one last week and holy shit you aren't joking. Our Canon was malfunctioning for the last 2 years, so I finally bought a refurbed B&W Brother Laser. I've never had a printer just work like this. I didn't even have to connect to it. My browser just automatically detected it, even on Linux.

[–] crab@monero.town 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Printer support on Linux is honestly better than Windows.

[–] nik282000@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I have one of their all-in-one colour toner machines for my GF's business, it's awesome. Scanning to an SFTP share means she can just feet a stack of paper into it and get a PDF in her Documents/Scans directory.

AND fun fact, there are no lasers in "laser printers" they all use 1D LED arrays to transfer the image data to the drum. Only the early toner based printers used a real laser and they were operating almost like a CRT, scanning a raster onto the drum.

[–] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

My browser just automatically detected it

Wait, what?

[–] opensourcedeeznuts@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Probably misspoke saying the browser is what detected it, but the first time I went to print anything was from Firefox and the printer was already there.

[–] staindundies@sh.itjust.works 14 points 10 months ago

My wife would always call it World War 3 whenever I would go to print something with my inkjet. Finally bought a Brother colour laser a couple years ago. While my distrust of printers is still deep seeded, this printer and I are approaching something of a friendship.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

I was just going to comment the same. My Brother laser printer has simply done its job for the last 13 years without issue.

[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

My HL2270DW has been working flawlessly for nearly 10 years now.

Connects to any PC/mac on my home network. Always prints correctly. Toners are dirt cheap

Is OP using a 1998 cannon printer or something?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

I just bought a new printer. After reading lots of reviews, it came down to Brother color laser and Canon color laser. Consensus seemed to be Canon was equally reliable with slightly better color quality.