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What 2D printers do 3D printer people prefer?
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Brother laser printer ftw. I think I spent $40 on it years ago, it's never failed after hundreds of pages, and is still on the original toner. There's a good chance it will be the last paper printer I ever buy.
Brother laser printers are like the Soviet era Lada of printers. They are small, affordable, and you cannot kill them. No weird features that sounded great when buying, no stupid "pc load letter", just pure core function. Keep it fed and it'll print for 20 years.
We had an hl2030 for 15 years, and all it took to keep it running that time, was some fresh toner (which was surprisingly cheap) and a new fuser (once!). 15 years of 1500-2000 pages a year at its peak. I've been on dates that were more expensive than that printer's TCO.
Same, shit just works. I don’t even want anything I print to be color, by design, because it always is terrible anyway.