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>>rntn+(OP)
I tell anybody who asks, if you need a printer, then 1) avoid inkjet printers and 2) I recommend Brother laser printers.

I've owned 4 Brother printers since the 90s. The first one lasted more than a decade, and I put it through the wringer. The next one lasted about the same, including a stint as EIC of a magazine which meant I printed a ton of proofs on that poor thing. They all worked easily with Linux, to boot.

I currently own two, one color and one multi-function B&W. They don't actually get a ton of usage but <knocks wood> they work when I need them to and I'm not constantly buying toner for the things.

(I'm sure other folks have horror stories because somebody always does no matter what product, but they've served me well enough - and certainly Brother doesn't seem to be as customer hostile as HP.)

>>jzb+C5
I bought a brother multifunction scanner inkjet. I left it to print a 20 page document while unattended, and there was a paper jam. I forgot to check when I came back, and it sat with a jam for a few days.

This dried out the non-replaceable inkjet heads, bricking the entire thing. I think I might have gotten 10 decent non-test-page pages out of it before I recycled it.

My current printer is a samsung wifi-enabled laser that cost about $100. It's great, but HP bought the division, and the first-party toner, drums, etc, are now garbage. Fortunately, the cheap supplies work as well as the OEM supplies used to. If you see one used on craigslist, etc, it might be worth picking up.

There have been some intermittent bugs with the MacOS / iOS / Linux CUPS drivers (I think they're all the same open source stuff), but it's been trouble-free otherwise.

I agree though. For new consumer printers, I think Brother laser jets seem to be the only remaining choice worth considering.