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There's already Brother, and fingers-crossed they will keep doing good job.

Please don't get distracted, Framework. What you're trying to do is challenging enough already.

Notably people will keep saying in every thread about HP that Brother exists, and I don't think Brother is dominating the market. At the end of the day if a ignorant customers keep buying garbage products, it's hard to help.

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offsky|2 years ago

My brother laser worked great for years. Then I decided to save money and get generic toner. A week later my brother printer bricked itself. It won’t even turn on. Probably a coincidence, but still makes me angry.

bestouff|2 years ago

Coincidence. Mine has used generic toner for nearly 2 decades.

tyleo|2 years ago

Funny, I literally left a comment promoting Brother as you left this one. You speak the truth. :)

MostlyStable|2 years ago

Brother is enshittifying. They locked out non-OEM cartridges a year and change ago. Their hardware is good (for now), but their software practices are already to the point where I would instantly buy a Framework option and sell my current brother printer.

jdboyd|2 years ago

I don't know if this is part of some enshittifying or not, but at first my Brother MFC inkjet (purchased 2021) just worked. But then sometime last year I stopped being able to print from iOS or Android mobile devices and also started having to remove the drivers and reinstall them over and over on both Linux and Windows (and even sometimes macOS). My printer has has a fixed IP from the beginning, and I don't know what is changing, but it is really peaving me. I also was never able to get it scan to a SMB server either. At this point I starting to think of going with an Epson ecotank inkjet as my understanding is those don't enforce getting Epson ink. In the old days a printer might have a part break or wear out, but I never used to run into weird seemingly software problems after the first 2 years of use like I did with this and the Samsung before it.

cyanydeez|2 years ago

they're not ignorant, they're rich. _they dont need to discern a difference, money is all they need._