Hey lemmy. I’ve been paying out of pocket to get stickers printed from online printing companies. But its getting expensive and I think I’d like to get a printer to do the job.
HOWEVER, I’ve been avoided getting a printer, because, well, the whole thing is just a shit show. Our household went through like a printer a year for almost four years. Between ink prices, and the printers just failing, we threw our hands up and said fuck it. Not playing this game, so we shifted to printing services or the local library.
So I’m looking for a very basic (I think?) printer. Honestly, a black only printer might even be fine. I’ve heard I think that maybe Canons or Brothers are the ones you want and HP’s are to be avoided. The purpose of the printer will be to print stickers on sticker paper. What printer should I buy?
I can’t say much about brands, I bought a Samsung color laser years ago and still use it.
What I will say is being able to network print is amazing and well worth having. I can print from my tablet, phone, or desktop.
i think samsung doesn’t manufacturer printers anymore since a very long time ago. iirc it’s a rebranded hp printer (at least in samsung’s homeland korea) and quite notorious for breaking often
No they don’t, Samsung sold their business to HP a few years ago. Mine was one of the last models that was actually Samsung made iirc.
I have been lucky enough that I can refill the toner cartridges and just replace the chips. Only major issue I have had is pulling through cardstock on a long run but that is something I rarely do and have learned to deal with.
My samsung printer had terribly unreliable network access. I could never figure out what its problem was.
In the end I connected a raspberry pi zero with a cups server to the usb port and let that one handle all the printer requests. It works so much better now.
The only issue I’ve had was when I switched to Linux. I set a static IP address in the printer when I first got it and always connect it via Ethernet. I’ve had it for a while but since Samsung sold off their printer brand a couple years later to HP I’m obviously not recommending them.