BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.
My brother printer didn't have drivers for arch and it took me days, and the community to help me get it up and running.
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I used mine with the old, reliable "HP LaserJet 4200 PS" driver for the first year or two. I only installed the official drivers because I wanted the duplexing to work. lol
With a laser printer, the HP LJ 4200 driver is pretty much universal (have only seem a very few cases where it didn't work)
Put your model # in the search box on the AUR and you'll get the driver every time.
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I'm kind of fond of my okidata c332dn. It's my daily driver.
I have Brother multifunction printer. However, it's run out of toner, and I don't have the funds right now to purchase new cartridges.
Got a basic brother laser printer from walmart for $100 a few years ago. The toner reset sequence actually works! only problem is the wifi died 6 months ago but it still prints great!
Yep, I like to eco-tank feature…. And the drivers work.
I've had a brother laser printer for 8 years now. Recently my wife was asked "can we get a color printer" and I said but we have at least 5+ years of toner left in this thing!
Maybe a regional market quality thing, but mine fucked up it's cartridge pretty soon and has a long procedure of changing them, not plug and print like in older models. Sometimes it happens. Jusging by youtube videos it seems some models are just rare unlucky picks.
Just get a HP Inkjet bro ^joke!
Probably I'm the only Linux user that can't connect to my office printer over the net I guess... But I can't connect to our HP one either, so there's that
My black and white Brother laser printer is 16 years old and still printing almost every day.
Can confirm, bought a Brother MFP like five years ago with ink refills and I still have one left. Best $90 I ever spent
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I have a Brother but I think I must have bought a lemon. It prints SO SLOWLY (like it takes long pauses after every page). And it constantly loses connection with our devices. :(
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