I have the brother 3750 I believe the model is and is great. The starter inks lasted me a long time and I finally bought all new full sized ink I expect they will last years. It was a bit costly to buy all the ink but I know it will last for years and I know if I don’t use it for a few months it will still print perfectly when I decide to. Definitely recommend a brother printer.
Brother printers are something else. After getting tired of having to do major troubleshooting for my printer at least a few times a year and deal with minor annoyances from time to time, I decided to leave my old printer to my parents (as I was doing a cross-country move at the time, so the less I brought with me the easier it would be). As soon as I settled in, I got a Brother MFCL2740DW printer. That was almost 5 years ago.
Let me tell you, the longer I have it, the longer it keeps blowing my mind. I've only set it up once, and then forgot about it forever. Since then, I added bajillion different devices, built a new desktop, switched routers multiple times and completely redid my wireless networking, etc. On every new device (including smartphones), without having to install any additional software or screwing around with settings, I can reliably expect to just click "print", and my printer will show up in the list of available printing devices, and it will just work. Toner cartridges last forever and are priced very reasonably. I can simply take the printer, put it wherever I want, and it will just work with any device from which one can print without any extra actions.
Normally, a lot of devices start like that at first, and then problems start arising, and things start becoming unreliable due to compatibility issues with newer devices and such, new firmware updates are needed, maybe certain workarounds in settings, etc. But nope, not a single hitch with this one, as it is coming close to 5 years of regular use in many different configurations.
And no, I am not getting paid to advertise for Brother printers. I just simply love when a tool is super powerful like that, but also "just works" extremely reliably without any thought needed, very seamlessly and in the background.
I currently have a B&W brother laser, and it has done everything I have asked it to do. However, I've recently started using specialty paper that this particular model has problems pulling from the paper tray, and using the single sheet manual feeder is guarnteed to pull it through at an angle. I do not judge the printer on this paper.
I've used color lasers in the past, but it was a higher end and was very pleased with its results.
I like how we've hijacked an oculus thread on printers!!
