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I despise printers. I have never owned one that wasn't evil.
I was you once. In 2018, I bought a dumb, black-and-white laser printer (Brother HL-L2300D). It has done nothing but print whenever asked. I've only had to change the toner once (to be fair, I print infrequently). It doesn't require special software. It was cheap. I highly recommend going this route.
I have a Brother black-and-white laser printer, and it is, in fact, evil. I commented about it in this thread in fact: it never prints when it's asked to because its deep sleep is so deep that computers can't communicate with it without the use of troubleshooting software. So it doesn't fit the requirement of "prints without any problems".
If it is network connected, consider giving it a static IP in the router. I can imagine the computer being confused by the printer having a new IP since last time (can happen with automatic IP), when you try to print something.
All the devices on my network have static IPs. We have a system.
I'm sure your issue is valid on your particular system, but I have two Brother L2300D printers in different locations and my experience has been exactly zzzzz's above. I have changed the toner once for each in years, and it's always reliable. It may be you having a rare issue.
I'm sure there are owners of every brand of printer that are perfectly happy with them. :)
Of course lemmings always recommend brother
I mean I've had my Brother long before I knew about Lemmy. I have never had it not print the thing I wanted it to print. Before that I had about half a dozen inkjet printers that worked maybe 40% of the time in the first few months and then dropped steeply when the print heads got gummed up, or the feed got jammed. But the Brother has been working a treat for five years and counting.
I’ve worked on a LOT of printers. Brother makes an extremely good product
You've sold me. I hope to move out soon. I might invest.
TSE
I’ve been a lemming for less than a year.
I’ve been on the same black & white brother laser printer for well over a decade! It’s on toner cartridge #3.
Lemmy attracts BrotherBro's (maybe we can make a better name)
I think the only printer I had that wasn't evil was my Commodore MPS-1200.
Those were the good old days. Printers were definitely less evil back then. But then, so was technology in general.