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My Brother colour laser is an absolute tank (by weight, if nothing else) and happily uses the cheapest eBay toner going. It can sit idle for months then get plu

My Brother colour laser is an absolute tank (by weight, if nothing else) and happily uses the cheapest eBay toner going. It can sit idle for months then get plugged in and hammer out 400 pages, double sided. I'll never use an inkjet again, they're always nightmares. We'll see how long it goes before the fuser carks it, but so far it's been pretty cost effective, considering the thing itself was £200.

manuelflara 4y ago
what model you got? at that price it sounds great
- Oxidation 4y ago
  It's a DCP-9020cdw. Sadly I don't think they're still made. Looking it up, I paid about £210 for it in 2018.
WarOnPrivacy 4y ago
Another shill for Brother here. It's a good service day when I can trade HP's hostility circus for a Brother laser.
swayvil 4y ago
Have a brother laser. HL2070N. prints just black. Like 10 years. Indestructible. Uses the cheap toner. Nice prints. CUPS. Debian.
- philsnow 4y ago
  I upgraded from my B/W laser to a color laser, both Brother, but I'm keeping the old one in a closet. Someday when if for some reason the new one has problems (or I legit run out of color toner), I know it'll be ready to step in.
jacquesm 4y ago
If it is an older one it will most likely outlive you. We used these in production for daily runs of 1000's of pages and the mechanism would eventually wear out but that's not something that any ordinary mortal will ever see. Fun bit: they even offered to replace the ones that eventually did fail under warranty so that they could strip them to see what failed so they could improve them. Very high standards there.
dlivingston 4y ago
I have a Brother HL-L2370DW, which only can print black-and-white, single/double-sided. It does those two things like a champ. It feels like a solid, unobtrusive, reliable appliance -- a compliment in the age of smart devices and more than I can say about HP & co.

manuelflara 4y ago

what model you got? at that price it sounds great

Oxidation 4y ago
It's a DCP-9020cdw. Sadly I don't think they're still made. Looking it up, I paid about £210 for it in 2018.

WarOnPrivacy 4y ago

Another shill for Brother here. It's a good service day when I can trade HP's hostility circus for a Brother laser.

swayvil 4y ago

Have a brother laser. HL2070N. prints just black. Like 10 years. Indestructible. Uses the cheap toner. Nice prints. CUPS. Debian.

philsnow 4y ago
I upgraded from my B/W laser to a color laser, both Brother, but I'm keeping the old one in a closet. Someday when if for some reason the new one has problems (or I legit run out of color toner), I know it'll be ready to step in.

jacquesm 4y ago

If it is an older one it will most likely outlive you. We used these in production for daily runs of 1000's of pages and the mechanism would eventually wear out but that's not something that any ordinary mortal will ever see. Fun bit: they even offered to replace the ones that eventually did fail under warranty so that they could strip them to see what failed so they could improve them. Very high standards there.

dlivingston 4y ago

I have a Brother HL-L2370DW, which only can print black-and-white, single/double-sided. It does those two things like a champ. It feels like a solid, unobtrusive, reliable appliance -- a compliment in the age of smart devices and more than I can say about HP & co.