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I made the mistake of recommending Brother printers without identifying the exact version. The Brother printer my coworker bought took a page from HP'd bullshit. He returned it after a week.
Imo - Look for ones that don't need internet or just perform 1 extremely specific thing. Or in my case, I printing a lot of b&w docs as cheap as possible.
My recommendation would be the brother laser printer HL-L2300D from 2014. The 2350DW looks similar and is more recent from 2021 and might be okay too.
It bugs me to hear that. My mantra for years has been "Buy a Brother printer, they just work". Do you know what model of Brother had a HP style limitation, and what the limitation was? I'd like to educate myself before I recommend them again.
I don't think it's the same printer/issue but recently my brother printer that I bought in '21 decided it was out of toner and refused print without replacing the toner. I forget what setting I had to find to reset it but it works fine now, on the same toner cartridge I bought with the printer (I don't print often).
Off the top of my head it was a dcp-l2550dw, can't check it right now.
It was mildly annoying to deal with, I remember the instructions not working exactly and having to troubleshoot, I can't recall what I had to do to fix it. I can imagine somebody with less time on their hands just giving in and replacing the toner.
I had a Brother MFC something that had page counts on the toner cartridges: they would only print so many pages before saying they were out of ink, regardless of how much ink was left. You could access a secret menu and reset the counts using a special button sequence, but it was a gigantic pain at the time.
L3210CW owner here. Awesome printer. Maybe in retrospect I would have bought the one that did duplex but it's not a concern really
I have the MFC 2750 and I'm extremely happy with it. It's a rock solid all in one laser.