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by Spooky23 3484 days ago
Absolutely.

They are no doubt the best printers in your company's facility. Most printers for enterprises are garbage now without a service contract or managed print deal.

For personal use, the brother laser devices <$100. Are the best bet. Simple, reliable and most of the things that break are either field replaceable or you can ditch the device.

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> For personal use, the brother laser devices <$100.

Rarely do I fanboy over a piece of electronic device, but this rings so incredibly true. I get thousands of pages out of my Brother laser printer per toner cartridge, it duplexes, the wireless just works. If you absolutely need a printer, get the sub-$100 brother laser printer.

Likewise. Mine is possibly the most reliable piece of hardware I have ever owned. It does exactly what I expect it to do, all the time.
May I inquiry your Brother printer model ?
looks under desk HL-2270DW, but that version appears to be an older model now (I've had it for about 5 years). Check out the newer version on Amazon for $80, its the version I bought for my Grandmother and it is just as reliable.

https://www.amazon.com/Brother-HL-L2340DW-Monochrome-Wireles...

Thanks, old is fine, maybe I'll snipe one on craigslist, even though, very few brother laser printers get back on the market ;)
I have a 2340DW. I think I paid $90 for it.

It's great... works with AirPrint, Google CloudPrint and standard printer protocols. I think you can even FTP jobs to it.

I have two HL-2040s and they've been bullet proof. What I'd really like now is a simple way to make them IPP Everywhere or Google Cloud Print printers to make all the cross platform usage identical.