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Printer recommendations (home colour laser). (lemmy.world)
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Might not be the best place to ask, but nowhere else reliant seemed alive.

My old laser printer has given up the ghost. What are people's recommendations on a replacement. As far as I'm aware, Brother are about the only company both making reasonably priced printers and not playing stupid games. Beyond that though, I'm not up to date on what's good and what's not.

Requirements.

  • Colour laser.

  • WiFi

  • Works with both windows and Linux

  • No need for scanner etc.

  • CD/ID card printing nice, but not required.

  • Photo quality nice, but not required (we have an ink sublimation printer for photos).

I'm UK based, which can mess with availability.

Thanks in advance.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now it's a dilemma between the HL-L3210CDW (same as the 3230 without wired ethernet) and the HL-L8260CDW.

It's £158.53 for the L3210, but £261.56 for the L8260

How much difference does LED make Vs laser?

[–] Redredme@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Led is cheaper, laser is older tech, most of the times laser is better but these days you really can't tell the difference for normal use.

Since my brothers always worked for a loooooooong time I would go for the wired one. Why? WiFi security tends to change every few years (wep, wpa, wpa2psk, wpa3) and if your device can't communicate with your new access point.... Well, that sucks ass. With the wired one you have that backup plan.

Edit: and to reinforce my own advice : which one is the most expensive? Buy that one.