{"id":41569,"date":"2023-12-27T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2023-12-27T22:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=41569"},"modified":"2024-04-08T11:11:16","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T15:11:16","slug":"just-get-a-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/27\/just-get-a-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Get a Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"

ifixcoinops<\/a> (via Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Watching a mutual ask for printer recs and receive a chorus of tired tech folk going “Just get a Brother, they’re fine” and man<\/p>

MAN<\/p>

Like this is actually kinda fascinating honestly, Brother is now the best printer brand, the one that every Computer Person recommends, and is it because their printers are good? Their printers are fine, they print, whatever, no, it’s because everybody else’s printers have gotten Innovated out the wazoo, every innovation making them way worse, until it’s gotten to the point where I wouldn’t have one in the house even if it were free, and meanwhile Brother’s have remained consistently Fine I Guess, which now makes them the best printer manufacturer simply by virtue of them opting out of the Who Can Get Crappiest Fastest race<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s true, from what I can tell. There was a time when pretty much all the printers were fine. I tended to like the HP ones. Then at some point they pretty much all started to suck. I ran into a series of horrible models from HP and Epson, with both hardware and software issues. I’ve been using a Brother laser printer for at least 15 years now, and it’s boring in the best possible way. It does what it’s supposed to do and never gives me any trouble. Over the summer we bought another one—my first color laser—and it also works as expected. Decent printers are ridiculously cheap these days. I think I got it on sale for roughly the price of an AirPods Pro. It seems like we’ve printed and color-copied a lot, yet the initial toner cartridges are still going strong. There’s no software to install, and the scanner works with macOS’s Image Capture, although that app seems to be falling into disrepair.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n