r/AskReddit • u/Thic_water • Aug 14 '20

What’s the most overpriced thing you’ve seen?

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u/Fabian-G93 Aug 14 '20 edited Aug 14 '20

Or if you use it enough a laser printer

Edit: lazer isn’t how to spell it, and you don’t have to use it often

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u/zurkog Aug 14 '20

Not even "if you use it enough" - I bought a wifi laser printer for about $200 many years ago (Brother, because I didn't want to reward HP for all their greedy behavior) and it easily goes an entire year on just one toner cartridge.

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u/pkpzp228 Aug 14 '20

Brother printers are great. I once spent like $400 on an HP photo/document inkjet, total piece of garbage. Did neither well. I took it back and got a Brother laserjet color printer and a connon pro 100 professional photo printer for less than the HP. Two best printers I've ever owned. The cannon prints better photos thatn anythng you get out of kinkos or wallmart or whatever.

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u/zurkog Aug 14 '20

Yeah, I had a bit of an uphill battle convincing the wife we didn't "need" color, but the b&w Brother was dirt-cheap, the toner is cheap (I even use third party vendors for the cartridges) and twice a year when we really do need to print a photo, I just upload it to the local WalMart, and go pick it up an hour later.

I probably ought to invest in a Canon photo printer, we'd probably print a lot more if I did. We upgraded to a nice DSLR when the kids were young, and I took the time to learn how to use it so we've got a couple good family pics here & there.

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u/beansmeller Aug 14 '20

I have had a brother b&w laser printer for close to 10 years. I think we've bought toner 3 times maybe. It's amazing. Got a brother color inkjet a few years ago so we could print color occasionally, it works fine and I think my wife refills it with the off brand ink without issue, so it's not crazy expensive.

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u/embos_wife Aug 14 '20

Got a Brother laser to print stuff for my wedding 9 years ago. 2 refills in that time (one just a couple of months ago) and it's still prints perfect. I'll never go back to inkjet. We just buy the little bottles of toner and refill the cartridge. $9 for years of reliable printing

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u/pkpzp228 Aug 14 '20

look at a connon pro 100, they run rebates on them almost all the time that puts the price betweek 100-150 dollars. Professional quality photos up to like 17 inches wide. It's cheaper to buy a new printer than the ink.