[hedora]

We have an old samsung, from before that division was acquired by HP.

Instead of supporting HP’s printer business, I buy third party toner cartridges on Amazon for 25% the price.

The official supplies are generally inferior.

I’m not sure how much this applies to brother, but it means I pay $5-10 per year for toner. We use multiple reams of paper a year.

[zrobotics]

Our shipping department runs on brother machines, the 6200 something. I don't recall the model number offhand, but these printers are intended for a office, they really aren't true commercial spec machines. That being said, the oldest one has a page count of 1.5m last I had looked and the only real maintenance they have needed is occasional disassembly to dust them from paper fibers.

The off brand toner cartridges work OK, but they have much lower than advertised capacity. I had run the numbers 6 months ago, and the most economical option is the high capacity OEM brother units. However, my one real annoyance is the printer reports low toner well before it is actually low, we get ~500-1k pages after the low toner warning before the prints start getting faint.