The IT folk have printers. I spent several hundred on an office-tier printer years ago and have never done maintenance or even replaced the toner. It just works and will continue to work for years.
I rescued mine - an A3 colour laser with network and auto duplex, no less - from work’s e-waste pile after “the purge” where they eliminated all single-user “personal” printers and moved to only shared printers with swipe card print release.
Have enough toner cartridges to last a lifetime too; its, or mine (either way).
All hail the e-waste pile. I have so many monitors, laptops, desktops, mice and keyboards from several of my old jobs that were otherwise going to be trashed.
Is this perhaps why? I thought it was because of kids.
I’ve had the same ink jet since 2016. The kids have done a good job keeping the jets from having a chance to clog. There is also a wall of family pictures, comparatively infrequent but it was the original reason for purchasing this specific printer. That and zero config printing from mobile devices
That’s impressive! Mine is a laser printer so it’s a bit different, in my experience inkjets are prone to issues so congratulations on having it so long!
It’s a brother I always figured that’s why. It was purchased back when it was a highly recommended brand.
I only use branded carts and I’ve only had to run head cleaning on it a few times, at least one of those took several iterations. Frequent use might have helped.
But it’s probably mostly luck and I hope no one takes this as an endorsement of the brand.
The IT folk have printers. I spent several hundred on an office-tier printer years ago and have never done maintenance or even replaced the toner. It just works and will continue to work for years.
I rescued mine - an A3 colour laser with network and auto duplex, no less - from work’s e-waste pile after “the purge” where they eliminated all single-user “personal” printers and moved to only shared printers with swipe card print release.
Have enough toner cartridges to last a lifetime too; its, or mine (either way).
All hail the e-waste pile. I have so many monitors, laptops, desktops, mice and keyboards from several of my old jobs that were otherwise going to be trashed.
Is this perhaps why? I thought it was because of kids.
I’ve had the same ink jet since 2016. The kids have done a good job keeping the jets from having a chance to clog. There is also a wall of family pictures, comparatively infrequent but it was the original reason for purchasing this specific printer. That and zero config printing from mobile devices
That’s impressive! Mine is a laser printer so it’s a bit different, in my experience inkjets are prone to issues so congratulations on having it so long!
It’s a brother I always figured that’s why. It was purchased back when it was a highly recommended brand.
I only use branded carts and I’ve only had to run head cleaning on it a few times, at least one of those took several iterations. Frequent use might have helped.
But it’s probably mostly luck and I hope no one takes this as an endorsement of the brand.
I can also attest to the quality of brother (or at least I could 10-15 years ago)