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Do you have a recommendation for a laser printer manufacturer with no locking (third party toner, ok...) and no steganography (invisible dots)?
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I'm going to advise against this. Most people selling their printer are doing so out of frustration due to paper jams or other nonsense. I have gotten 2 used printers out of not wanting to generate e-waste, only to have constant printer jams and other frustrations leading to me having to just print at the grocery store instead. "That Brother printer" will cost you more (and be Yet Another Plastic Thing To Go To A Lan…
I got a Brother laser printer (HL-3170CDW) and in terms of economy it's hard to beat. (Never buy an ink printer though. That advice holds.) About the random bricking though… While this printer doesn't actually brick itself, it does have a very curious failure state where if you leave it off, but plugged into the mains, it will eventually refuse to boot up until you unplug it, wait for ten minutes, and plug it back in…
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For those of us who need to print a bit more often, my advice is to buy a black and white laser printer for ~$40 on Craigslist and you'll get years of cheap, reliable occasional printing in your own home while you use up the rest of the toner cartridge that came with it. When it breaks you can probably find another one in the same price range.
I'm going to advise against this. Most people selling their printer are doing so out of frustration due to paper jams or other nonsense. I have gotten 2 used printers out of not wanting to generate e-waste, only to have constant printer jams and other frustrations leading to me having to just print at the grocery store instead. "That Brother printer" will cost you more (and be Yet Another Plastic Thing To Go To A Lan…
This story tells me I made the right decision: Never ever buy a printer. I can print in the library. Since Covid started I needed to do that twice: The first time they had stopped accepting cash because of the infection risk(!). And I loaded 2 Euros on my library card for 10 pages but obviously did not use all of them. The second time they were surprised that I had money on my library card. To be fair I have printed…
It's not HP's or any other vendor's business to know where you are. This is an easy solution to this.
I have a few routers at home with a separate Wifi hotspot each configured for separate country to avoid exactly this nonsense for different services.
Advantage of this approach is you can travel with a small travel router all over the world while feeding each of the service with a consistent country location.
Added privacy is a benefit.
Have a separate small travel router with embedded VPN support to connect printer to Wi-fi hotspot with whatever region it wants to see. It's not HP's or any other vendor's business to know where you are. This is an easy solution to this. I have a few routers at home with a separate Wifi hotspot each configured for separate country to avoid exactly this nonsense for different services. Advantage of this approach is yo…
That's much worse than the situation in the article, which is just region locked cartridges.
HP printers are absolutely awful now in terms of their PITA setup, obtuse smart setup exe’s instead of drivers, stupid drm or subscription lock stuff like this. We do not supply or recommend them any more (IT company).
Can you recommend a printer or brand? Or else enumerate all the bad ones? ;)
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I'm going to advise against this. Most people selling their printer are doing so out of frustration due to paper jams or other nonsense. I have gotten 2 used printers out of not wanting to generate e-waste, only to have constant printer jams and other frustrations leading to me having to just print at the grocery store instead. "That Brother printer" will cost you more (and be Yet Another Plastic Thing To Go To A Lan…
I wonder if Brother knows of its growing positive reputation over the past ~15 years, and whether there are internal pressures within Brother's C-execs to capitalize on this through 'successful' tactics that others are employing.
This story tells me I made the right decision: Never ever buy a printer. I can print in the library. Since Covid started I needed to do that twice: The first time they had stopped accepting cash because of the infection risk(!). And I loaded 2 Euros on my library card for 10 pages but obviously did not use all of them. The second time they were surprised that I had money on my library card. To be fair I have printed…
My laserjet 1020 is messed up and gets jammed up if put more than one sheet into the tray. So I need to print the pages one by one by waiting until the status led flashes orange, then load the next sheet and click next / briefly opening the top lid. But I rather keep just doing this than dealing with any of that modern drm crap.
Have a separate small travel router with embedded VPN support to connect printer to Wi-fi hotspot with whatever region it wants to see. It's not HP's or any other vendor's business to know where you are. This is an easy solution to this. I have a few routers at home with a separate Wifi hotspot each configured for separate country to avoid exactly this nonsense for different services. Advantage of this approach is yo…