I got a similar Brother in 2020 after my Epson inkjet MFC became unusable. The Brother is reliable, simple, and was cheap, even when printers were thin on the

I got a similar Brother in 2020 after my Epson inkjet MFC became unusable. The Brother is reliable, simple, and was cheap, even when printers were thin on the ground. Before the latest in a series of Epson inkjets, I had a Brother laser that lasted from 2000 to 2010, when it died in flood--if it hadn't gotten soaked, it would probably still be kicking. In the time between the Brothers I had a long period of no printer and two different Epson MFCs. The last was, in some way brilliant. It had a sheet feeder for the scanner, it did duplex printing, and the print quality was excellent. It even had separate tanks for each color of ink. But man the tanks were tiny and expensive. It seemed like you'd print 3 pages before it would need yet another tank. And you couldn't print black and white if the magenta tank was empty. But that notwithstanding, it was a pretty great printer. Until it wasn't. It started failing to pick up random sheets of paper mid print job. Then it would fail to pick up any pages at all unless you adjusted the paper tray just right, then it just stopped being able to feed paper 4 times out of 5. Then it stopped working completely. I cleaned the rollers over and over, it helped a little. But it just got worse and worse. Nothing made it better. Supply chain shortages and pandemic printer buying sprees meant that I had few options. I made the choice to just get the cheapest, simplest laser printer I could find. If I really needed an MFC, I could get one later. Turns out I didn't need it. I scan things with my phone camera now. It's good enough for documents. I rarely need to do more than a few pages. I wasn't printing much color nothing that really needed it. They way the thing is working, I figure there's a solid chance I could be good until 2030.