Recommendations for a color, full duplex, laser printer?
Another printer company (Brother) has fallen to the allure of “remote disable” if they object to you using your own device in a way they don’t like: trying to self-service, use third party inks, whatever. It’s at their discretion. Given printers are the sorts of devices to which you tend to want to have network access, preventing this is a lot of work.
I’ve been looking at color duplex laser printers, and Brother has been at the top of the list, until they recently announcement that they’d disable printers using third party inks.
BIFL to me implies that the company isn’t going to actively sabotage self-service, or restrict your usage of the thing, so I think this is an appropriate question for this c/.
If brother does actually fall off the cliff, (and I’m not convinced it has yet)I probably would just buy any used Enterprise level MFP. Like the HP DN class. The engines are solid, they’re designed to be maintainable, their page counter per month is so huge they’re well overbuilt for home use.
HP is a pretty shitty company but they’re careful not to alienate their enterprise customers.
You’re going to pay a fortune to put toner in it but that toner will last forever.