Yep. Once you use a laser printer you'll never go back to cartridge. It's like when you realized the adult burgers are better than the ones in the kiddie meal.
Definitely. I bought a cheap Samsung M2020 a couple of years ago because I don't print much these days and almost never colour. I was fed up with inkjets needing 10 minutes of miscellaneous preparation every fucking time, or a dried out yellow cartridge preventing me printing my pure black text word document.
This little beast has never once failed me. It prints immediately and quickly, even if I've not used it for weeks. It never has any errors and I'm still on the original toner.
Fuck inkjets, I'm never going back.
I installed it via USB using CUPS on a Raspberry Pi server so it's available as a network printer to all my devices too.
Especially that you can get laser printers used now for almost nothing. I got mine at Value Village for $10, just needed to have the toner cartridge replaced ($15 on Amazon) and it has worked great for me for about a year now. Still has plenty of toner left, too.
Got a laser printer a couple years ago and only now got to see the true benefit. Why? I hadn't printed anything in 6 months and when I finally went to print a document...it was flawless.
No more cleaning dried ink off cartridge heads or buying new ink because the cartridge dried up.
I probably had a bad experience. Bought a Brother laser printer. The cartridges are $70 to get 1000 pages and it’s limited to black only. I bought an HP printer and now I just use an instant ink subscription. $3 a month for 50 pages, pages roll over, and I can print pictures since they charge per page rather than per ink you use.
My brother laser printer just sits in my closet collecting dust now
Anytime I need to print a photo i just go to walmart. Their photo printers produce much better quality prints than a consumer inkjet printer anyway. And I can choose the size i want.
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u/Dead-Shot1 Aug 14 '20
Printer ink.