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I have a Brother business-class (whatever that means) color laser printer sitting in my wife's home office. It's so perfect, it's beyond even the legendary HP Laserjet 4 it replaced when the old reliable fell over six feet from a shelf and went "ouch".

Brother deserves credit for its practice of stealth postmodern retrocomputing, for lack of a better phrase, if you will.

Cheap components are durable and scale, whether hardware, software, or SoC blurring the lines between the two.

Sadly, what this demonstrates is just how much the cloud dreams of Brother's competitors have diminishing returns because they are so tied up with authoritarian control regimes that have nothing to do with users' experience with their respective devices. Quite the converse.