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Re:Ask HN: What printer do you use? by teh_klev on Saturday October 01, 2016 @10:25PM (#12620806)
* Brother HL-5140 b/w laser printer. Purchased new in November 2004 and has been a trouble free workhorse the whole time I've owned it.

According to the printer's status sheet it's printed 7298 pages so far and jammed just nine times.

The printer is still running on its original fuser and drum units and it's on its second toner cartridge. I think it cost me GBP150.00.

It's connected directly to my Windows 10 workstation via USB and is "shared". Fairly certain I could get some sort of WiFi arrangement rigged up, but this PC is rarely switched off.

* Canon MG5500

Got this as a freebie. I use it now and again as a scanner and to print high quality Hubble pics onto high quality printer paper. It's set up over WiFi which was ridiculously easy to do. It even scans over WiFi which gave me a certain sense of wow that's clever even though it shouldn't have :)

In parting, I'd say that the economics of a half decent laser printer are a bit of a no-brainer if its mostly b/w printing you do.

[edit] Forgot to mention that both printers happily talk to Fedora.

Re:Ask HN: What printer do you use? by zer00eyz on Saturday October 01, 2016 @11:41PM (#12620956)
I have a brother HL-L2320D (laser, love it). It doesn't have wireless and that was a conscious choice at the time, as an old Raspberry PI got put to work as the print server.

If you find something without networking it isn't hard to find a way to add it on!

Re:Ask HN: What printer do you use? by japhyr on Sunday October 02, 2016 @12:50AM (#12621086)
I have a Brother HL2070N that's worked well for years.