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Yeah, even the verge says "just buy a brother".

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>I have been recommending people buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale for three years now, and no one has ever gotten mad at me about it. My own Brother laser printer, whose model number I no longer remember and do not care about, has been operating flawlessly for nearly 10 years now. We use it to print return labels for things we’ve purchased online in a losing effort to dull the pain of modernity, and my wife is a lawyer, a job that requires printing documents and scowling at them several times a day. We have replaced the toner once in that time, and it has never asked me to sign up for a subscription or fallen off the WiFi.

Yeah, even the verge says "just buy a brother". Archive: https://archive.today/YnuYG From the post: >>I have been recommending people buy whatever Brother laser printer is on sale for three years now, and no one has ever gotten mad at me about it. My own Brother laser printer, whose model number I no longer remember and do not care about, has been operating flawlessly for nearly 10 years now. We use it to print return labels for things we’ve purchased online in a losing effort to dull the pain of modernity, and my wife is a lawyer, a job that requires printing documents and scowling at them several times a day. We have replaced the toner once in that time, and it has never asked me to sign up for a subscription or fallen off the WiFi.

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[–] • 2 pts (edited )

Just buy a Brother. And set the network gateway to 0.0.0.0.

I did have a Wi-Fi problem that was a pain, but it's been good for months now. It usually works.

[–] • 0 pt

They used to have a firmware issue with Wifi. If you had your AP's setup so that they would scan and change channels to get on a less crowed channel the printer saved the channel number as part of the wifi config so the printer would no longer connect to the wifi if the channel was changed even though the rest of the config was valid.

The annoying solution (until a firmware update was issued eventually) was to just force your AP(s) to never jump channels.

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That would explain it, and I didn't find that information on line. Everything looked fine in the config.

Still not updating firmware.

[–] • 0 pt

Yeah, I had to deploy these wifi printers to dozens of sites across the country. It's super fun to try to explain to a office worker how to plug a laptop into the ethernet port of the printer while you remote in and try to see why the printer is no longer connecting to the network.

I am fairly sure I posted that solution online when I was still hosting my own website(s). They have not been online for a few years now though.

The shit you have to figure out when you work in tech sigh.