Printers?

[fun_two]

With the HP's comments about potential pay to print subscription, is there any printers out there that doesnt need me to sign into their app to look at printer levels or even tell me that "paper is low".

I have an old-ish HP which is decent, barring the numerous wifi dropouts in recent times. 

I am not an heavy printer user. Maybe 30-50 pages in 6-8 months usage, maybe.

[TECHNICAL GAMER]

1 hour ago, fun_two said:

With the HP's comments about potential pay to print subscription, is there any printers out there that doesnt need me to sign into their app to look at printer levels or even tell me that "paper is low".

I have an old-ish HP which is decent, barring the numerous wifi dropouts in recent times. 

I am not an heavy printer user. Maybe 30-50 pages in 6-8 months usage, maybe.

Maybe brother laser, i guess

[Needfuldoer]

Office-grade, color, laser MFPs are the "buy it for life" printers. They're less expensive than they've ever been, and older models are an even better buy since parts and supplies will be readily available and very inexpensive.

 

My only 2D printer right now is a Canon ImageCLASS MF8380cdw I got off Marketplace for free. It needed a $20 roller kit, and I have to 3D print a little clip to get the bypass tray working properly again, but a full set of aftermarket toner (good for 2500 pages) is only $70 on Amazon. Older LaserJet Pro color MFPs are a good choice as well.

 

About the only thing color laser printers can't do that inkjets can is print on glossy photo paper. But honestly, I remember doing that back in the day and it was rarely worth it. The results were never as good as you'd get from the kiosk at the drugstore, or even a home-grade dye-sub printer.

[Kilrah]

Yup, brother laser MFPs have always worked fine to me.

 

There are some cloud functions such as scan to email, but no need to use them. They can scan to network shares etc and work all locally.

 

For photo I've had good experiences with Epson ecotank models.

[TetraSky]

I got a Brother laser printer MFC-7860DW.
It annoyed me once about low toner.
I took the toner out and shaked it around a little, put it back in. This was 2 years ago. Still got toner left apparently.

 

Just don't buy HP printers. Or Epson, they are also going the Subscription route. Though maybe not as aggressively as HP...
Or really just buy a laser printer from Brother. Even their cheapest model will do the job. Unless you absolutely need color printing. Just be aware printers don't come with the USB cable nowadays. 

[Kilrah]

Similar here, my L3770CDW annoyed me once about the black cart (at 1000 pages, it's count-based), quick Googling later got the key combo to reset per-cart counts, still running the same cart a year later.