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Just stopping in to give a shout-out to Brother. The black and white laser printer I bought a few years ago (HL-2390DW) is the first reliable printer I have owned in my life.

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I had a Brother Multi-Function color scanner/printer that lasted almost 15 years. In the end, the scanner started to malfunction, doing blurry scans, but the printer portion still worked great. Toward the end, it started complaining about low black toner, and I looked up when I last bought black toner: it had been 7 years earlier.

I ended up buying a new Brother scanner/printer that can do full-duplex scanning and printing. The thing is amazing, and I'll likely have it for another 15 years. It's solid and reliable, and the toner lasts a really long time.

Mine's more than 12 years old. There's nothing that comes even close.

My DCP-7020 is going on 20 pretty soon here. Don't want to jinx it but it's been the reliable workhorse of the home office.

This. Also their Linux drivers work.

I recently installed kubuntu on an old gaming PC. Thought I'd see if I could print one day. To my surprise, my Brother printer was already recognized. Printed what I needed right away. No time spent configuring anything, no fuss.

They also have excellent support, that I’ve only used once in 15 years.

Yup. I've had a Brother for a long while now, and it replaced a previous Brother only because I reconfigured my office and needed one that would work with wifi.

And they have Linux drivers

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