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Asking a Linux user to recommend a printer (tesseract.dubvee.org)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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BTW, I've had my Brother laser MFP for 11 years and still on the original toner.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I've used tons of dot matrix, inkjets and lasers since the 80s. I've used them in MSDOS, ProDOS, Linux, BSD, Windows, MacOS, OSX, and BeOS. I don't know how many I've owned or how many different OS versions but I know I've had exactly 1 printer that wasn't constantly a problem and its a Brother laser printer.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Okidata Microline dot matrix printer has entered the chat

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

They're fine until they get off track with the page perforations. And the ribbons last quite a while, but are technically a security risk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Wow, I think I had an Okidata modem at one point. I haven't thought about that in a long time.