Super-thin PCB stops the cartridge from counting how many pages you've printed.

Super-thin PCB stops the cartridge from counting how many pages you’ve printed.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23·
    3 months ago

    The ‘best printer’ category winner every year is whatever Brother laser printer is on sale during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday sale.

    • PixelTron@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      3 months ago

      I have an 8+ year old colour Brother laser printer still going strong. Only had to replace the black cartridge for the first time the other week, colors all still going strong!

      I can leave it unused for months & then just fire it up & print 100 pages with no problems whatsoever.

      Wish I had it back in college/uni days when I had no end of problems with various crappy ink jet printers, even smashed one up I got so pissed off with it mucking me about back in the day.

      Saying that, I think I’ve seen comments by others saying newer Brother laser jets aren’t as good?

      • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 months ago

        Once upon a time I’m pretty sure all Brother printers were manufactured by Lexmark. That was back when Brother’s flagship products were their label makers. Which are still terrific. I have one that I still occasionally use.

        But I think at some point it changed? Not sure. Most people I have known that had Brother printers would always say they were fine, satisfactory. A nice mid-range and mostly reliable product.

    • AndrewZabar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Hah reminds me of back around turn of the century, my company - for some reason - had a subscription to PC World. I started to notice a trend and did an experiment by following and charting two things: their product reviews/ratings, and their advertising.

      Not all that many major brands back in that day so there would be an edition of the mag where multiple ads could be found in one issue, from the same company.

      Anyway, it turned out that in the reviews of Graphics Controllers, Modems and other peripherals, every month - consistently - the winning pick among the products reviewed just happened to be the brand that spent the most on advertising in that issue! I tracked it across around 6-7 issues, and you’d see literally the same group of products sometimes, and yet different “winners” different months haha. What a joke.