• Maybe@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Seconding Brother laser printers. They’re workhorses and I’ve had good luck with cheap third party cartridges

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      1 year ago

      Tbh, it would probably be one of the opensource diy printers like voron, jubilee or annex.

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    1 year ago

    If you need color, then I highly recommend the Epson EcoTank line of printers. No printer cartridges AT ALL - just raw 4 color ink. They cost more than most inkjet printers up front . . but more than save in the long run. And NO DRM in site . . rather difficult to put DRM into liquid ink . . .

    https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers

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      1 year ago

      Just a heads up, ECO tanks do have a sponge inside to collect inks. This sponge needs to be replaced periodically. Once replaced a counter needs to be reset, and that’s only achievable through their service (it costs about 50€ where I live). In my experience it seems to be required about every 6000 prints

  • Thomas@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    Most comments comments mention Brother, but for me, Oki is working like a charm. Using a B431dn (b/w, duplex) and a C531dn (color, duplex) with PPD files from OpenPrinting. Older models though, not sure if Oki dropped quality in favour of DRM since.

    Rules of thumb:

    1. Laser instead of ink unless you specifically know that you need/want ink.
    2. Stay away from HP, Canon, and probably Epson. HP, like IBM, has long lost its aspiration for quality.
    3. Stay away from anything that is ‘smart’ or ‘cloud’.