| YOU ARE A PRINTER WE ARE ALL PRINTERS
2024-04-03
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> Anyway, here’s the best printer for 2024: a Brother laser printer. You can
just pick any one you like; I have one with a sheet feeder and one without a
sheet feeder. Both of them have reliably printed return labels and random
forms and pictures for my kid to color for years now, and I have never
purchased replacement toner for either one. Neither has fallen off the WiFi or
insisted I sign up for an ink-related hostage situation or required me to
consider the ongoing schemes of HP executives who seem determined to make
people hate a legendary brand with straightforward cash grabs and weird DRM
ideas.
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> Nilay Patel (The Verge)
It's sort-of alarming that Brother are the only big player in the printer
space who subscribe to a philosophy of "don't treat the customers like
livestock". Presumably all it'd take is a board-level decision to flip the
switch from "not evil" to "evil" and we'd lose something valuable. Thankfully,
for now at least, they still clearly see the value of the positive marketing
the world gives them. Positive marketing like like this article.
The article is excellent, by the way. I know that I'm "supposed" to stir up
hatred about the fact that its conclusion is written by an AI but... well,
just read it for yourself and you'll see why I don't mind even one bit. Top
notch reporting. Consider following the links within it to stories about how
other printer manufacturers continue to show exactly how shitty they can be.
I recommended a Brother printer to the Vagina Museum the other month. I assume
it 's still working out fine for them (and not ripping them off, spying on
them, and/or contributing to the destruction of the the planet).
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