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by sqwrell 873 days ago
We have 2 Brother printers at home and two in the office - they are a few years old. Never had an issue. The toner cartridges last an unbelievably long time, they have not once jammed. They are network printers, wired to a switch (router) - so any computer on our network can print to it. Any iOS device finds it and we can print to the with iOS too. iOS and Windows just finds them - no special drivers or software. We never installed the printer software with some bells and whistles - no need to. Windows just works with them. We would never buy any other brand. They weren't even very expensive. (The cartridges' hold toner - not ink) and yeah .. we can print on both sides of the paper.

If you want to technically peak at them - we just enter their IP address into a web browser and we can name them, see how many pages were printed, see how much toner emails, etc

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When Brother printers falsely report toner low (like other brands), there is a software hack you can execute to reset that. No chips.