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+2 for Brother laser printers. I have a HL2270DW (duplex wifi) and a DCP7040 (multifunction print/scan/copy, USB only). They cost me, respectively, $0 and $5
by MarkusWandel 6y ago
+2 for Brother laser printers. I have a HL2270DW (duplex wifi) and a DCP7040 (multifunction print/scan/copy, USB only). They cost me, respectively, $0 and $5 at garage sales. They have <$20 aftermarket toner cartridges in them and print flawlessly with these.
There are really two use cases for printers: Heavy, frequent use, and infrequent use. Laser printers excel at the latter because they use dry supplies. I've had laser printers that sat idle for a decade, toner and all, simply power up and print.
I couldn't get these Brother printers to work except by using Brother's Linux printer installer, which works perfectly, but alarmingly, is still 32-bit software which makes me wonder how much longer it'll work. Similarly, the scan feature of the multifunction machine will only work after Brother's installer is run (but then it works great - sheet feed duplex scanning (stack flip and second pass) with gscan2pdf).
Anyway so slight software concern aside, very happy with these printers. I don't think either of them has ever jammed in my use.
- lmz 6y agoThe HL2270DW should be PCL compatible. Not sure about the DCP7040.