This is actually the sole reason I went with laser - I print so rarely that a traditional inkjet would not stand up to long periods of inactivity, as the ink wells would either dry up or the printer firmware would force replacement.
A monochrome laserjet should run you about the same price as an inkjet and cartridge refills (since the included inkjet cartridges won’t last long), and would probably suit 90% of most user needs. I highly recommend the Brother line of monochrome laser with duplexer, mine is 10 years old and going strong.
Second-ing Brother, there. Best all around one, and it doesn’t have crap like vendor-locked ink cartridges, firmware that’s dependent on PC-specific software that doesn’t get updates, and all the other malicious printer company tricks you see common at HP and others. Printers that are cheap require expensive ink for the vendor to make their profits. Reasonably priced printers are usually not subject to that scammy selling tactic.
Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.
OMG, same here. I got tired of buying a new inkjet every 2 years or so. I bought a Brother laser all-in-one 4 yrs ago and haven’t looked back. My only regret was not spending the extra bucks to get a color model.
This is actually the sole reason I went with laser - I print so rarely that a traditional inkjet would not stand up to long periods of inactivity, as the ink wells would either dry up or the printer firmware would force replacement.
A monochrome laserjet should run you about the same price as an inkjet and cartridge refills (since the included inkjet cartridges won’t last long), and would probably suit 90% of most user needs. I highly recommend the Brother line of monochrome laser with duplexer, mine is 10 years old and going strong.
Second-ing Brother, there. Best all around one, and it doesn’t have crap like vendor-locked ink cartridges, firmware that’s dependent on PC-specific software that doesn’t get updates, and all the other malicious printer company tricks you see common at HP and others. Printers that are cheap require expensive ink for the vendor to make their profits. Reasonably priced printers are usually not subject to that scammy selling tactic.
Same here. I have a Brother 2370DW that I’ve owned for around three years and it’s still using the toner that came with it.
The only color prints I’d make are photos and those get sent out to a printing service.
Got a Brother laser printer when I was still at home because I got tired of using the cheapo inkjet. Because everytime we needed something printed we’d have to run to the store and buy $50+ in black and color cartridges for 1 or 2 pages. I took my printer with me when I moved out and helped my parents pick out an identical printer because they liked mine so much lol.
OMG, same here. I got tired of buying a new inkjet every 2 years or so. I bought a Brother laser all-in-one 4 yrs ago and haven’t looked back. My only regret was not spending the extra bucks to get a color model.