Greentings As youve seen from the the title, i want to get a new printer as a present for my parents. Sadly they are still windows peasants and my mom somehow thinks that the HP printer on her desk has been a good financial investment, even though it has costed us more than 300 bucks in ink over the past 2 years.

I was hoping that you fine folks would have some good recommendations to replace this money leach on their home. Ive heard about the entire brother lazer meme going around, but the ones ive seen from them only do monochrome. And frankly speaking i dont think that my birth specimens can comprehend the greatness of 18 century film on their paper. Anyways have a nice day or night, internet strangers!

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Brother does sell laser printers but they cost a good bit more

    A brother laser printer won’t “expire”.

    Most people never buy another ink cartridge because people just don’t print much.

    Buy a HP or other brand, print 10 pages and six months later it says the ink is expired and makes you buy more.

    So unless your printing a shit done regularly, the Brothers makes up for the high upfront cost.

    Which is why HP sells printers at a loss

    • socphoenix
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      9 months ago

      Oh no argument there. I have a brother monochrome laser and wouldn’t never go back to inkjet for normal printing. I still keep a more specialized epson photo printer that’s inkjet but it also isn’t for general printing recipes/documents etc.