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So if Brother is out, which printer is still reasonable to buy? Are there any?

I've got a lot of respect for Oki. Granted they've left the US market but still in the EU and Asia. Heck, we were getting security firmware updates 7 years after initial purchase. Of the 10 we had at work, still rocking 9 of them 9 years after purchase. The only loss was due to a power spike after a power loss restoral.

I'd throw all our worthless Xerox in the trash if I could still get Oki.

Anyone have thoughts on Canon laser printer? My Brother laser printer keeps on having lines and dots despite changing the toner and fuser. I've kind of given up on them. Canon seems much lower price for a similar feature set so I'm wondering what is the catch.

I got a Canon LBP233dw, it's a bit wonky in terms of build quality (my old HP1010 is just such a tank), but it does work with 3rd party cartridges, one of which (10000 pages) I bought right away (it said "works without chip check removal"). The printer seems fine after almost 15000 pages, the only issue is that it complains about this 3rd party stuff, so you have to press "OK", when it starts up.

PS oh, and if you want super high print quality, probably you should get an LBP236dw, which adds PostScript support.

Thanks for the feedback. I'll seriously consider the Canon because the my Brother 5900DW is causing me so much problems. I don't print a lot so not too concerned about 3rd party cartridges.

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