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I came here ready to fetch my pitchfork, toss the HP in my home office, and buy a Brother.

But looks like the price is going up between 0.5 EUR (for the 10 page plan), 3 EUR for the 700 page plan, and 5 EUR for the 1500 page plan.

I looked at Brother printers just now - looks like CAD 500-1000 for a good one, with dubious AirPrint support.

Instant ink is still well worth it for people like me who print < 1000 pages per year, sometimes from my phone.

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I have no experience with non-laser Brothers. Good home-grade Brother lasers can be had for around $200 US, with excellent AirPrint support.

Not affiliated, just a happy user.

Even the cheap ones are good? I'll keep that in mind. I bought the cheapest instant ink HP printer for about 100 CAD years ago. It's still happily churning out a dozen pages a month or so.

In my experience, yes. I think we spent like $250 on the laser at my wife’s doctor office, where they went through dead trees like a beaver on meth.

I print to my Brother MFC-L8900CDW from my iphone all the time, works flawlessly. Not a cheap printer, though, as you point out.

I'll keep that model number handy in case I ever need to print a ton, thanks!

Same for my HL-2315DW. Phones just see it. Brother features seem reliable across their lines.

It was clearanced at Walmart for $50.

> Instant ink is still well worth it for people like me who print < 1000 pages per year, sometimes from my phone.

I fall into this bucket, but it would never occur to me that I should want to sign up for a service that charges me per page printed. I feel like it would have negligible benefits over paying for ink as I use it, and it would make me think about whether/how much I need to print something every time I go to print. Most importantly, it would make me uncomfortable because I'd be at the mercy of unilateral price increases, like this one.

What sold you on the service? Was it when you bought a new printer that you signed up, or when you went to buy more ink/toner?

One of my printers is an inkjet. I used it so infrequently that the ink dried up in between uses and I’d end up wasting it all doing print head cleaning. A subscription service seems like it would have been beneficial for me, but I inserted switched to a laser printer. I do not regret that decision, yet.

> I fall into this bucket, but it would never occur to me that I should want to sign up for a service that charges me per page printed.

Instead of instant ink, I opted for getting a bazillion pages out of a toner cartridge. This Brother is the first printer I owned I didn't need to setup on anything. The first time I went to print from my phone it was there. Which was kind of weird but certainly welcome.

Yeah and we did just print 40% of the money supply, so I’d imagine the bulk of this is on the shoulders of the federal reserve.

So let’s call it a true 10% raise in prices, not the 50% everyone’s whining about here.

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