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HP misreads room, awkwardly brags about its “less hated” printers (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 43 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Brother is the go to because their stuff is basic and functional.

All the other companies have "innovated" to the point where their shit is unusable for daily use.

[–] be_excellent_to_each_other@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yep, Brother rocks.

Too lazy for my usual lengthy monologue about Brother when this comes up, but works well with Linux, far more reasonable ink cost than any other brand I've tried, and the even low end 'inkvestment' model we have has really lived up to its claims regarding ink longevity. It doesn't even hassle you when you use off brand ink, but I only tried hat once since I had so little complaint about the Brother ink. You do lose ink level indication, which is annoying, but that's it, and manually checking level is also easy with this style of printer.

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You do lose ink level indication

If you're talking about the laser printers, the toner level is available in the printer's web UI and via the network. I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have mine integrated into Home Assistant.

Oh that's neat. How did you accomplish that?

[–] dan@upvote.au 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's a built-in integration: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/brother. For me, Home Assistant automatically detected the printer on the network and showed a notification in the app / on the site about a new device being found.

It provides pretty much all the data you'd want... Remaining drum life, toner level, page count, status (sleeping, idle, printing, paper jam, out of paper), and I think a few other things.

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It has a web UI?

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yes!

[–] NoStressyJessie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 11 months ago

My kids started school and I had a need to print lots of medical forms and other paperwork, I bought a brother laser printer. Because it was basic and functional and didn’t try to force me into an ink subscription that gave them permission to disable my hardware.

[–] HeartyBeast@kbin.social 2 points 11 months ago

I have a cheap Canon Pixma inkjet that doesn’t seem to be enshitified. Probably about 3 years old at this point though.

[–] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

Shoot ink on paper. That's all you need to do. Don't give me a built in screen, or onerous firmware, or any of that nonsense.