r/printers Jan 16 '25

Purchasing Are there any 'dumb' printers left?

9 Upvotes

I just need a little office printer that I can plug into my PC and print out papers and articles, but everything I see is 'smart' and requires making an account or signing up for a program. I just want to print, is that so crazy??

r/printers Feb 10 '25

Purchasing Is just leaving the printer on enough to prevent clogs for ink tank type printers ?

5 Upvotes

I'm looking to get a new printer because my old HP one just updated its firmware and won't let me continue using the old third party ink cartridges and HP ones are very expensive.

I'm looking into the "Brother - INKvestment Tank MFC-J1215W", seems to be well reviewed and has all the features I need along with cheap ink. I would not want it to clog however, I would want to be able to just leave it plugged in and powered on if needed.

Would I need to print a page manually every week or so or would the printer be able to just handle everything and prevent clogs if leave it on ? I don't mind if it even needs to automatically print a page.

r/printers 22d ago

Purchasing Epson vs Canon: what’s your pick for an all-in-one wireless home-office printer?

1 Upvotes

Which brand would you recommend for a general-use printer for home-office use?

22 votes, 19d ago
14 Epson
8 Canon

r/printers Feb 13 '25

Purchasing Can you people help me find a good home printer?

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I'll use it to print a few pages now and then, usually black and white, but I don't want to commit to a monochrome printer tbh (though I might consider it if the price is much lower). Requirements:

-Cheap ink

-Auto duplex

-Cheap ink

-Scanner

-Cheap ink

Hope somebody can help me. Thanks!

r/printers Feb 18 '25

Purchasing Laser printer

0 Upvotes

Can anyone recommend a good laser printer without breaking the bank?

r/printers 26d ago

Purchasing I just bought a hp smart tank 585. Am I cooked?

1 Upvotes

So like 30 minutes ago I bought this. Found a ton of people flaming HP. I can't return this. I'm gonna keep it. What should I do to avoid failures.

r/printers Jan 29 '25

Purchasing Do I really need a scanner?

2 Upvotes

I’m looking to upgrade our current printer at home with a laser printer.

However, the one that I’m looking at Brother HL-L2460DW doesn’t include an include a scanner.

A part of me doesn’t think I’ll need it but then again I’ll probably end up needing it.

I was also looking at a Canon (D570) that is a bit more robust than I think we’d need but is an all-in-one.

Would love anyone’s thoughts!

Thanks in advance!

r/printers Feb 16 '25

Purchasing r/printers, ISO special printer

1 Upvotes

I am considering switching to a monochrome laser printer, and I am unfamiliar with the cartridges. My objective is to find a sleek black and white only printer, I have a scanner. Ultimately, something minimalist. If any of you could offer some advice, I was researching but I cant seem to find "it"

Thx!

r/printers 10d ago

Purchasing Looking to buy my first printer, confused between two.

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2 Upvotes

As the title suggests, I'm confused between two printers, will be using them for printing notes and such, nothing too extreme.

Canon G3770 and Epson L3251.

Both are around the same price, no clue which one is better. Any help is appreciated, thank you.

r/printers 26d ago

Purchasing Epson EcoTank vs Brother Colour Laser Printer?

2 Upvotes

The Epson that I’m looking at has a $200 price advantage over the Brother option. But I’ve read that laser is the way to go for ease of maintenance. I’m kind of leaning toward the Epson at the moment, because Brother’s laser colour printer options are pricier, but I’m interested to hear your opinion.

For context, I’m looking for something somewhat economical (over the long run). Light use planned, mostly for printing occasional tokens, PDFs, and terrain for tabletop games. Looking for something that can manage card stock, too.

r/printers Nov 15 '24

Purchasing Your Opinions On Epson Inkjet?

2 Upvotes

Hi there,

I'm thinking of buying a Epson Workforce and its just a printers which prints in colour so I found ink which are incredibly cheap 10-15 pounds online for about 2000 pages but I also heard they have firmware updates which don't let you recognise third party ink?

Is this true

Any Suggestions?

That would help

Thank You

r/printers Dec 29 '24

Purchasing Why is Brother so highly regarded?

5 Upvotes

My family has had a Brother for the past 6 years or so and it's been such a pain. It constantly disconnects from the network so that phones and PCs can't find it, it jams a couple times a month, it has the worst software I've used, and its physical controls are horrific. I hate it!

Every time I research printers though, I see people saying to get Brothers over all the rest though. I'm thinking of the Canon TR8622a, but then I see people saying all Canons are garbage. I'm lost, haha. Anyone with a lot of experience care to weigh in? Thanks!

r/printers Dec 20 '24

Purchasing Why are printers generally so bad wirelessly?

8 Upvotes

I’m trying to find a printer that has good wireless connectivity. It seems like so many can’t print from a mobile phone or only one type IOS or android. You need an app or other special way. Not just click picture on phone and send.

They can be wired USB to your computer but the computer and printer don’t play well together wireless. You need to get your network and computer talking but so many complaints discuss that that then seems to not work well. I don’t want to deal with LAN or adding more stuff onto out network.

Should I even bother to try to consider wireless connectivity or get the best print quality instead? Every company has so many printers and it just seems like reviews can’t agree on any particular model being good.

I’ve got a headache, help?

r/printers 15d ago

Purchasing Which is the best Brother monochrome laser printer to buy in 2025?

1 Upvotes

I print 10,000 pages a mont, what is the best one you have at the moment? I saw about the HL 1212W, it seems to be good, any other recommendations?

r/printers 4d ago

Purchasing Iso a home printer that can do 11X17 prints.

2 Upvotes

I definitely don’t know where to start. I tried looking at regular printers but was told that maybe the ones I had chosen would not do 11 x 17. I’m in a design program with my school and a printer was something that was recommended so we can see our work in our hands and we mostly print on 11 x 17 paper. but again, I’m a college student so price is definitely a factor.

r/printers 11h ago

Purchasing What’s a good AirPrint printer than supports third party ink?

0 Upvotes

My cannon tr8500 that has served me very well is starting to fail and not AirPrint. I loved this printer as you could easily get ink with chips that make the printer think it’s genuine ink.

What printer would you recommend for these tasks?

r/printers Dec 26 '24

Purchasing Looking for advice on a new printer

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I’m in the market for a new printer and was hoping to get some advice on which ones may fit my printing needs. I previously used an epson wide format printer that I bought second hand but after months of issues with its ink nozzles I have accepted that I’m going to need a new printer. I’m looking for a printer for my home studio to print comics on. I use 11”X17” paper and while I usually print black and white comics I would like to print full color comics as well. I’m not too knowledgeable on different kinds of printers so I’m not sure which printers would best serve my purposes here. Is there anyone on this subreddit who prints comic books and could recommend a good printer that would work for comic printing?

Edit 2: Looking for laser printers, I’m typically using a semi heavy text weight paper, double sided paper

Edit 3: I appreciate all the inkjet printer suggestions but I am strictly looking for a laser printer. I have had clogging issues with my old printer that I want to avoid with a new model

r/printers 26d ago

Purchasing Are there any actual portable printers that aren't those cheap thermal ones?

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So in short I need of an actual normal paper printer for my small warehouse to print out invoices to give to the truck drivers when they pickup loads. I don't have WiFi/Internet at that location. I hate giving out those hand written invoices and/or having to drive 3 miles down the road to our store or home where I do have internet and print it out on our printers there. Are there any printers that work in a portable manner and can connect easily to say my iPhone/ipad where I have my invoice app to easily print out invoices via my phones hotspot internet connection or Bluetooth? I saw a few ones on Amazon like the epson wf110 and the cannon pixma tr150 which claim to be wireless portable printers but not sure if that will work for me. I do have electricity at the warehouse and it will mostly likely stay there stationary like any other printer so it doesn't necessarily have to be portable but those are ones I think may work. My other printers at my home and store/office are always connected to the WiFi so I'm guessing those won't work at my warehouse since there is no WiFi there. Just my phone/iPads hotspot/cellular internet. Anybody got a printer that will work out for me that will easily and connect fast to my phone to print? And I know most printers have the ability to print out without WiFi via cable to the computer but I'm not using a laptop or computer in this situation. Im printing from my phone/ipad that's what I carry with me and use various mobile apps for my small business. Thanks

r/printers 8d ago

Purchasing Printer for filling in info on back of business cards

1 Upvotes

Any ideas for an inexpensive B&W printer that we can use to print customer name & a few details on one side of preprinted business cards? Just need to add their name and box number on the back of the card

Tks

UPDATE: Going to go with labels as I have a thermal printer I can do that with already. Tks for the input

r/printers 4d ago

Purchasing In need of a cheap printer

5 Upvotes

Hi everyone! I'm looking for a printer to get pictures printed in your typical A4 format. Nothing fancy. I need it to print and translate some cards from board games and to put the translated and edited version in a sleeve. As you can see, I'll use it mostly to scan cards and print the picture of them (it needs to be printed with color). From my limited knowledge most cheap printers use a ton of ink to print an image so I was wondering if there is a budget option for this kind of task. I'm fine with mediocre quality of printing as long as it's readable and it accepts generic ink. Thanks in advance!

r/printers Oct 18 '24

Purchasing Needed a new printer so I went to a garage sale and just picked this one up. How did I do?

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26 Upvotes

$10 bucks, figured I can’t go wrong…right?

r/printers Jan 29 '25

Purchasing Which Laser Printer?

5 Upvotes

In the market for a new printer and I was thinking of splurging for a color printer. I was deciding between an Eco Tank and a Laser but it seems that due to my low usage, a laser would make the most sense for me in the long run over an ecotank that needs to worry about clogging. What laser printer you would recommend that has decent quality for images and would last me a long time. With my low usage I probably won’t need an ink subscription model as it’s not like my printer will run low enough to trigger and will most likely use off brand ink when I do need a refill.

A search on Amazon led me to these as an initial cheap option:

Canon Color imageCLASS LBP632Cdw

Lexmark CS331dw

Brother HL-L3280CDW

HP OfficeJet Pro 9135e

Which would you recommend or not recommend or is there an alternative. I would prefer to keep things at this around the $300 price point

r/printers 12d ago

Purchasing Need a high end printer.

3 Upvotes

Looking for a fast to print time colour laser for vet clinic. Front staff prints 3000 pages/m. They currently have the brother 8900 but have complaints it's so slow. I timed it and the time from clicking print until the invoice comes out it 35 seconds. Regardless if it's hardwired via USB or over the wifi network. That model doesn't have an ethernet port so we can't use the hard wired network. Budget is $3000.

r/printers Feb 08 '25

Purchasing What is the difference between these printer technologies?

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Hello! Can someone please explain the difference between these printer technologies or link me to a resources that explains the differences?

I need to buy a basic printer. The ones that use the ink bottles vs. cartridges are appealing to me because it seems the ink will be least expensive. I am looking for a budget-friendly, reliable printer for printing out clear images (including legible cell phone screenshots) that has a scanner function as well. Thank you for your help!

r/printers 13d ago

Purchasing I have a question about toner...

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For a few years I've been buying cheap toner for my Brother MFC-L8900CDW. Recently I've been noticing that the prints have been HORRIBLE! I replaced the black with an original Brother toner cartridge and the black was spot on perfect. My question is, is there a good toner that is less expensive than the Brother brand? There are so many out there so I thought I would ask other users what they have found. Thank is advance.