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Pleasing. Brother has been one of the few -- or possibly only, I don't know printers well enough to know -- that don't appear to be governed entirely by rent seekers. I've bought exactly one printer in the last 20 years; six month ago: a Brother laser printer. So far, it's great.

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I realize these are just anecdotes but:

I have a Canon color laser and while it's quality is to be desired, it functions just fine with 3rd party toner cartridges.

I also recently bought an Epson Inkjet mostly because it didn't use cartridges - ink comes in a bottle you fill the tanks with. You can get 3rd party ink bottles but the Epson branded ink bottles are very affordable.

Just to contrast the $/mL for ink for the Epson tanks, the Epson costs 25 cents/mL ($16 for 65mL of black ink), while a random HP printer I found costs $9/mL ($18 for 2mL of black ink).

Same here, I've had my Brother HL-L234 for 15 years I think.

Bestest cheapest printer I've ever owned except for my first dot matrix.

The laser is way quieter though.

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