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Why isn’t there any competition in the printer space except for Brother? Are printers really that hard to make?
Canon? I have one and it was supposedly the cheapest per page in the long run.
cannon and brother are both decent printer companies
Apparently it took so much time and effort to make high DPI print nozzles that it’s much more attractive for a company to go and make a 3d printer rather than battle it out in a dying market that’s remained a stable distribution of HP, Brother and Epson (and partially Canon).
Epson?
Wow, I’ve never heard of them.
I have an ET-8550 that we bought for printing family photos to scrapbook. It eats ink from bottles instead of cartridges and is happily printing anything I can give it for 2 years now. I print 5-10 coloured pages every 1–2 weeks for a hobby, plus two full photo albums came out of it, and we’re still on the first set of ink bottles.
I don’t need any wonky software either, it’s on the WLAN and Windows just automatically notices it, installs drivers and prints from the OS prompt. Maybe my better half uses their software for the photo printing, IDK.
Got one (WF-2810) at our favorite online retailer monopoly and am pretty happy. The software is ugly and in some places unintuitive but works well, and it allows off-brand inks but “warns” you about them. It also prints relatively slowly (compared to printers of other people) but it really isn’t bad and I’ve had the current cartridges in for the past two years and they still work perfectly after a quick (automatic) refresh. The scanner is ridiculously slow though - I don’t mind but I can imagine it annoying some.
Can recommend if you don’t print a lot or something!
This. Ecotank printers are great and even let you print non-standard inks like photo-resist.