Comment on HP sued (again) for blocking third-party ink from printers, accused of monopoly
Chupracabra@mastodon.social 5 months ago@luciole @tesseract I agree with this. Our light office grade Brother printer works pretty good most of the time. Sometimes it disconnects from the WiFi and needs to be reset but the ink is never an issue.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 months ago
Thirded. Get an Brother inkvestment model. No bullshit, it just does your bidding, like a printer should. And the ink lasts a very long time.
Yes, everyone says get a B&W laser printer. If that fits your needs do so. We have kids that want or need to print in color fairly often, and color laser was out of the question last time we purchased.
Brother is the now only brand I look at after decades of buying printers. If absolutely forced not to buy Brother, I'd go with Epson. I used to love Canon, but each model started incorporating more and more bullshit, and I found their ink to be both expensive and short lived. HP is the king of printer bullshit, but Canon seems to want to sit on their court in recent years.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Epson definitely isn’t as bad as HP but they’re easily as bad as Canon.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 months ago
My last epson experience was about 5 years ago, so they may have gone downhill, appreciate the update. I had 2 in a row and both were good with Linux support and general lack of fussiness.
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
It also might be more their large format printers. I remember it being a whole thing that they’d leave ~20% of the ink in these $100 cartridges for print shops.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Inkvestment sounds like another scam.
be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 5 months ago
OK man. Doesn't bother me if you don't buy one. This is the longest I've kept a printer without throwing it away in disgust in a long time. Companies like to brand things with catchy names. shrug