• YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    In all fairness, my cheap Brother laser printer hasn’t let me down at all. Unlike the HP inkjets of the past.

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      1 year ago

      I bought mine (HL2270-DW) 12 years ago for college. Last week I plugged it in after it sat for several years and printed off some stuff for family with 0 problems. I think it’s only on its second toner as well.

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        1 year ago

        They last much longer in storage /without printing because toner is a powder, so it can’t dry out. The print head of an inkjet printer (part of the cartridge) will dry out if you don’t use it for a few weeks.

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        Still the exact same printer my family has been using for the past 10 years after our old Inkjet kicked the bucket a measly 3 months after it was born. And it has seen some stuff, including being dropped at least twice, plastic film in the paper compartment, coffee-stained (for aged effect) paper, and even a x-acto knife blade that somehow ended up in there.

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        Heck, even my 7 year old HP laserprinter is doing just fine, still

        Granted, I print like 70 pages a year, but that’s still better than the inktjet before!