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Printer recommendations (home colour laser). (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Might not be the best place to ask, but nowhere else reliant seemed alive.

My old laser printer has given up the ghost. What are people's recommendations on a replacement. As far as I'm aware, Brother are about the only company both making reasonably priced printers and not playing stupid games. Beyond that though, I'm not up to date on what's good and what's not.

Requirements.

Colour laser.
WiFi
Works with both windows and Linux
No need for scanner etc.
CD/ID card printing nice, but not required.
Photo quality nice, but not required (we have an ink sublimation printer for photos).

I'm UK based, which can mess with availability.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've had good experience with Brother's B&W lasers and Canon's color ones.

100% not what you asked but I just replaced my color laser with a tank inkjet and have been pretty happy with it. Cost per page is slightly lower than laser.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. Cost per page is way lower if you compare genuine consumables. It's around $.002 for ink tanks and easily $.02+ with most color laser printers these days until you get into around the $600 range. Even with knock off toner ink tank printers are more affordable. Just be sure to print to them regularly so they don't clog up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That last bit is the issue. We go through phases of needing to print. Unfortunately, our previous inkjet ended up needing new cartridges at an annoying rate. If we left it off, it clogged. If we left it on, it used up a lot of the ink clearing itself.