What is considered the ThinkPad of printers? I want something that will last for years without breaking down. I don't need much, monochrome is completely fine. No need for scanner either.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-buy-a-brother-laser-printer-middle-finger-in-the-air
I have a Brother
It’s fine
(Mine does scan, and it’s kind of handy sometimes)

>>106159593 (OP)
HP LaserJet 1100, 1200 and similar ones around that era, with USB. Some have LPT only.
If you can't find it, old Brothers are quite reliable, 10 years of work and 3rd party toner.
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HL-2132R, HL-2240R, HL-2240DR, HL-2250DNR, DCP-7057R, DCP-7057WR, DCP-7060DR, DCP-7065DNR, DCP-7070DWR, MFC-7360NR, MFC-7860DWR, FAX-2845R, FAX-2940R
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>>106159593 (OP)
I have a brother 1210w black and white toner printer.
If I want to print something it prints it, when it runs low on toner or needs its drum replacing I can get many third part ones for extremely cheap.

I hope to god I never have to buy another printer

concur with brother advice - bought my elderly dad one last year (base model, b&w only). Doesn’t gum up if you leave it sitting for months, toner has lasted nearly a year for his low intensity use cases (forms for old people things, journal articles he wants to read later, maybe 20 pages a month), is wired to his mac so no wifi issues, although it has worked seamlessly printing things from my phone when I happen to be at home. Felt moderately expensive but no fucking about.

>>106159593 (OP)
>Last for years without breaking down
Doest exist if you print a lot. If you print a few hundred pages a year then maybe.

>>106159593 (OP)
>monochrome is completely fine. No need for scanner either.
Just buy a Brother laser printer then, but anything (aside from HP) should be fine. They're literally made for your use case

Sadly my brother printer is printing a bit blurry, calibrating it does nothing

Old HP LaserJets seem solid

>>106159603
Holy based article
>S0STXX

Old Brother laser printers are very good. I got one and bought an RPi Zero to turn it into a network printer via CUPS. It's a printing beast and toner is so cheap it's almost free printing.

>>106159593 (OP)
laser printers without wifi
I've used a Xerox phaser printer for 18 years now

>>106159607
>HP LaserJet 1100, 1200 and similar ones around that era, with USB.
this also Canon LBP2900 etc
those are unkillable

>>106159593 (OP)
Business laser printers
I’ve shilled the Lexmark MS810 before but I have first hand experience using one daily, heavily, for like 5 years. It never gave me any trouble doing 500+ pages a day.
The toner isn’t super expensive and lasts a long time, and the imaging units and maintenance kits aren’t that bad either.
But you’d probably replace those one time in the next two decades for home use anyway because they’re meant to do a fucktillion pages a day for years in offices.

I just go to the library when i need something printed.

>Brother laser printer
Many modern Brother laser printers have an issue where if the power drops without the machine having been properly shut down on restart it will display "Insert toner cartridge" or similar. This is because Brother designed their toner cartridges in such a way that each cartridge has a little battery, usually an L521F, to run the chip that communicates with the printer, and for whatever reason when the power drops out there's a good chance it'll fry at least one of those batteries, so when you power back on the printer won't recognise that it's there. Brother know about this issue, they know they could just as easily run a power bus on the printer to power the cartridge EEPROM, but they do nothing about it, because they also know 90% of their customers will just say "OK, let's buy a new cartridge". That's why I got my colour laser printer for free, they'd replaced various toner cartridges multiple times before deciding the printer was bugfuck.
If you know about this battery thing they're good printers. Just keep a card of the batteries handy in case you need to swap one out.

My hp m1120 from 2006 still works.
But I only need 1 page every other week.

>>106159982
that's what I have. it works

Why are printers so awful? Who's going to be the first to finally release a printer that works well and uses cheap ink?

>>106162146
>Why are printers so awful?
Capitalism.
> Who's going to be the first to finally release a printer that works well and uses cheap ink?
Nobody.
Ink is more expensive than gasoline.
So unless you are going to jail them, no capitalist ever will sell cheap ink.

>>106162146
They are quite complex electromechanical devices. We take them for granted.

>>106159649
>concur with brother advice
We respect you too, brother.

>>106159593 (OP)
I've used Brother printers for years at my office. They all just work.

>>106164885
Kifflom, brother brother

>>106162204

If it was actually that expensive books wouldn't be dirt cheap and they wouldn't be sending you a fortune in spam ads through the mail

Hard question:
What's the best laser printer that can print photos?
I'm aware there's a technique to allow laser printers to achieve coffee table book quality, but I can't recall its name. Seems to be an HP thing.