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>>anothe+(OP)
I have had a Brother laser printer for 11 years. I am legitimately on my second toner cartridge. I try to tell family and friends not to bother with inkjet printers but they don’t listen.

My dad’s big fancy Cannon photo printer has caused him nothing but grief. He swears up and down he needs to be able to print large-format full color photographs, but I have never seen him do so. What I have seen is his black cartridge dry out between uses and fail when he needs to print a form.

My wife is occasionally frustrated by our inability to print color, but I am more than happy to drive to Walgreens or my companies office to print a color item once every couple months. An inkjets ink would’ve dried between prints.

>>donatj+MI
One of the best purchases I have ever made is my Brother laser jet. I’m still on my first toner cartridge after three years. It works every time and never complains or updates.

>>rzimme+6C2
Which did you buy?

>>lloyda+DW3
(not OP, but another Brother fan) I've bought two Brother multifunction monochrome lasers, both are still running fine.

I have the Brother MFC-L5800DW and it's predecessor (~$450). Both are amazing.

I stepped up to this price range because models at this price point have a USB slot in front so you can directly scan to a thumb drive, or print from a thumb drive.

Both have an extremely powerful scanning function e.g., scan to an SMTP server, local FTP server etc etc.

These are the Dewalt of printers e.g., full native Postscript, native LPR daemon the device etc.

Works excellently with iOS's CUPS too.