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by dirktheman 2085 days ago
For home office use you can't go wrong with a Brother HL-series laser printer. Cheap as beans, and (unlike HP), toner cartridges don't cost more than the printer itself.

For large offices: I have NEVER encountered a large multifunctional that didn't suck. The number of times I've pressed CTRL-P on my dekstop, only to have walked to the printer and found that somehow the print job hasn't arrived, was printed on A2 instead of A4 or the paper was jammed in one of 15 trays...

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>For home office use you can't go wrong with a Brother HL-series laser printer. Cheap as beans, and (unlike HP), toner cartridges don't cost more than the printer itself.

Can't upvote this enough. Get a B/W Laser Printer with replacement toner that is reasonably priced. Brother is also really good about having original/authentic toner easily available. I've got a Brother B/W MFC with duplex printing and I've had zero issues for the 3 years I've had it.

I used to have a Samsung B/W Laser printer. Not only was the toner expensive, but I could never actually get it. Even the "Authentic Samsung" toners were fake. And I could never get anywhere close to the advertised printed pages.

I gave up on inkjets years ago.