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TRBoom@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
That’s a brother printer, a 3720 or 3780 maybe? Pretty sure they still print monochrome if they’re out of yellow ink.
Should have been an hp, that would be more realistic.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
It’s a 3780 (MFC-L3780CDW), I have one. My first laser printer, finally (vetoed for 3x just to have yet another inkjet fail…). My understanding is that all colors are consumed even if it’s b/w, since the paper needs to pass all the toner regardless of color, so I’m pretty sure you’d encounter the same issue, just ‘everything is empty’ instead of ‘one thing is empty’.
We bought it last year and have used like 2% toner, so at this rate I’ll die before I need to get replacement cartridges (I’ve printed nothing, family has printed everything so far).
I like it, my only wish is that it had a turn on/off schedule. It’s not great at photos but I knew that going in; we haven’t printed photos in like 20 years, so the trade-off was fine.